New York state law requires employers to permit workers to observe holy days, unless doing so would cause an "undue hardship." Matter of Parents for Educ.Frederick Douglass was a practicing Protestant who viewed religious liberty as a key American principle. HENRY J. HYDE, Illinois, Chairman. York came with the Revolution. Religion and the Law 15 (1962). Lived for months under New York's unconstitutional regime unable to attend religious services. Out as a small bookstore on New York's lower east side 90 years ago. We have been freed from the power of sin through the new birth experience of the abiding presence of Jesus in the believer's life.