No. But if the government requires employers to offer a day or two of paid leave, employees could get Christmas or a nearby day off.

As you point out though, this may be moot as most employers offer this anyway. But other holidays might be a good target.

> Perhaps you have a bit of a boogeyman image of the 'religious right'.

Huh? I was appealing to why they might support something, not oppose it.

I might not have read it in the tone you intended, and boogeyman might not have been the right word I was looking for. I'm used to the discussion of religion on this forum having a suspicious or negative tone, so I apologize if I projected that onto you incorrectly.

It seemed strange to me that out of any number of political forces in the US you chose to mention religious right, as though they're this monolithic group that are preventing mandatory holidays and could get it done if they wanted to.

I don't know if it's really even as partisan of an issue in a liberal/conservative or Democrat/Republican sense; it's just not part of the culture here, at least not on the federal level. I'm thinking about blue laws here, because religious influence did translate to mandatory days off for a lot of businesses in times past. But as far as I know, most of that was state-by-state. I'm not aware of federal blue laws, or any kind of federal mandate on holidays.