Posted on 07/06/2006 11:35:38 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg
Hi all....
FReepers have been very helpful in the past and I wanted to touch base to see if you could help again.
Our city council is debating putting Sunday alcohol sales on the ballot, yet again. The matter has been defeated twice in the past few years, but they are considering the referendum again.
While I am a believer of seperation of church and state, I also believe in keeping the Sabbath holy....can this be reconciled? I'd appreciate any thoughts or comments on any experience any of you have had with this issue...
Georgia Dawg
Did it turn all the tenors into basses?
What one man sees as greed, another man sees as impededing on his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It's about personal responsibility and government control. Yes, in the grand scope of things (compared to say Socailized Medicine for all) it may not be a big deal, but to me it is a socialist mentality and serves no purpose other than the government trying to "help" those that can't help themselves.
I'm not talking about your family's tradition. I'm talking about the community tradition which in many places in the South (as well as other parts of the US) involved the prohibition of the sale of certain kinds of things on Sundays.
FRENCH BREAD!! How offensive! Only long loaves of crusty AMERICAN bread at our house! /s
But since you bring up tradition, just how old does a discriminatory practice have to be before it is considered a tradition, and therefore, in your view, sacrosanct.
Surely if a tradition, no matter how old, stems from one religion's trying to force its will on others, then those who take issue with it have the right to oppose it.
At my Festival, we get around the no-booze-before-Sunday-noon rule by decreeing that if you want hooch before noon, you gotta buy food with it. That way, you're having brunch!
I am unfamilar with that. If the personal question is about me, I will answer only in that I am unabashed about my Christanity.
No further questions of a personal nature will be answered.
The church-goers want to make sure there's enough left for them when they get out.
In New York, liquor stores are now allowed to open on Sundays, and I can't think of any problems that have resulted.
How does it trample your rights? You ever shop at Albertson's? If you do, you may as well start spewing at them right now because I promise you they will never sell liquor before noon on Sunday. Wanna know why? Because they're LDS, that's why. Good luck with your lawsuit.
And I love a good Mimosa with Sunday brunch. Maybe I'm just not as easily offended as some.
It was a question related to your philosophical view. Hardly a "question of a personal nature".
I don't mind blue laws because I've been in the position of having to work on Sunday and it was no fun at all.
Out here, you can't sell cars on Sunday and the liquors stores are all closed. Whenever a group tries to repeal the laws, they are always shot down by a wide margin. Dealerships and liquor store owners don't want to pay for the increased labor and overhead; they don't believe that sales would justify it.
I can always buy a car or a beer on Saturday. I think people like being with their families on Sunday.
Those two topics are related how?
Why is it unseemly? Many folks go to get their groceries very early on Sunday morning because it's quiet and the lines are short. If they wish to purchase a bottle of wine (or whatever) to consume later in the day, why not? Why should they have to go back to the store just because it's Sunday?
By the way, I'm old enough to remember when the blue laws in our state prohibited ANY store from being open on Sunday. My best childhood friend was not even allowed to sew on Sunday (not allowed to play with "face cards" either.)
If you really want to enforce "no work on Sunday - keep it Holy" why restrict it to alcohol sales?
It would probably keep the freeper imams happy.
Maybe. But it's still not any of your business.
I like to be with my uncle Jack.
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