I never understood the law. Jesus manufactured alcohol.
I have no probelm with sunday alcohol sales...as long as it's after 12:00PM.
For the record, blue laws are stupid and reek of prudishness.
Blue laws are stupid. Get rid of them.
"can this be reconciled?" - Easily. Try to reconcile it on those lines: you keep your Sabbath holy outside of a liquor shop, and I keep mine in the worship of Bacchus [no more than 5 times a day]. To each one's own.
My vote: Keep the blue laws
Then don't buy anything you don't think you should be buying on Sunday. If you can't control yourself, then you may have other problems we need to discuss.
So, what do people drink on Palm Sunday?
Blue laws make no sense.
If alcohol is sold on other days of the week, then the gains (from an alcohol-disliking perspective) of banning the sale on Sunday are merely symbolic.
I'm a Christian that rarely drinks but I've never understood Blue Laws. I'm surprised they even exist in this secular environment we live in now.
You can't reconcile blue laws and separation of church and state. Blue laws are Christian laws, explicity (thus it is Sunday and not Saturday or Friday that is covered). So you can be a good Christian and a good American by opposing blue laws.
Not a role for the government. Hours of operation should be the owner's choice.
Quite simply, no.
My own Sabbath, and that of Seventh Day Adventists, is on Saturday, and alcohol is sold normally on that day. The Islamic sabbath is on Friday.
Would you object if the government banned sale of alcohol from sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday? If so, why? If not, why not?
Why not just treat alcohol just like any other consumer product, instead of perpetuating the attitudes and policies of the abysmal failure known as Prohibition?
Even Massachusetts has repealed its alcohol-related Blue Laws.
So now if you suddenly decide to invite some friends over for dinner on a Sunday evening, you can get wine, beer and liquor.
It's really a lot better. Plus it means people don't have to go to a bar to have a drink on a Sunday, which means theydon't have to drive.
It is not the government's place to determine this. Alcohol should be sold whenever a vendor or buyer would like. (In fact, the government should be out of the selling business all together, but that is a different issue.)
YOU keep the day Holy by observing it any way you want.
I think Blue laws are an abomination.
This may come a big suprise to some folks:
The people who will drink on Sunday upon repeal of the blue laws are already drinking on Sunday. They buy more on Saturday.
The people who do not drink on Sunday now, probably do not drink on other days either. They will not likely start due to repeal of the blue laws.
I've never really understood why people get so excited over it whenever the subject comes up for consideration.
Can't you keep the Sabbath holy by deciding yourself about the purchase of alcohol, and let others that believe differently, do the same?
Keeping the sabbath holy applies to you and yours. No matter what store is open, you and you alone have to make the choice to do something that honors the sabbath or does not.
Blue Laws are stupid, laws should not enforce religious beliefs.
Not to mention, which sabbath are you referring to? IIRC doesn't Jewish sabbath begin sunset on Friday? Seems to me if you want to make a law that protects "the sabbath" you would have to outlaw those sales from sunset friday until monday morning. ; )
I loved the blue laws. I think they helped make life more civil. I cried when large stores opened on Sundays. It changed the entire tenor of the state.