Bible belt town says sorry after workmen put up signs on a Sunday

 Bible belt town says sorry after workmen put up signs on a Sunday 

Society

 June 27, 2017

One of the village’s several churches.

Photo: Michiel Verbeek via Wikimedia Commons 

The town council in Hardinxveld-Giessendam, a Bible belt municipality with some 18,000 people, has apologised to residents after workmen put up warning signs about roadworks on a Sunday. ‘The council regrets the fact that a contractor has placed up signs about the resurfacing work on the Nieuweweg on a Sunday,’ the official statement said. ‘This goes against agreements and was not ordered by the council.’ The council was prompted to say sorry after several people complained that local rules had been broken. Sunday is a day of absolute rest in strict Protestant circles. Hardinxveld-Giessendam council is run by a coalition formed by a local issue party and the fundamentalist Protestant SGP. The actual roadworks went ahead on Monday as planned.

Read more at DutchNews.nl: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/06/dutch-bible-belt-town-says-sorry-after-workmen-put-up-signs-on-a-sunday107393-2/