No dancing on Good Friday? German party-goers rebel BERLIN — Observe Easter or go dancing? In many parts of tradition-bound Germany, religion is winning out. And for those who like to go club-hopping into the night, it's not a happy holiday. For a century, loud music and dancing all night long during religious holidays has been verboten . Here in the German capital, where the most popular clubs don't get going until after midnight, many just ignore such hidebound rules. "I don't find it modern at all," said Matthias Jeromin, 28, an engineering student in Berlin. "It contradicts my idea of a secular state." Germany has restricted dance celebrations on religious holidays since the Middle Ages, but the ban only became legal in 1919. Since then, each of Germany's 16 states decide when and how to enforce the ban, which prohibits all manner of raucous behavior in public during state-recognized religious holidays, such as Good Friday, which
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