what does it matter? if i want to drink on sunday and i can't buy then, i make sure to buy it saturday night. like here in MI, Christmas is a dry holiday, so right before liquor stores close Christmas eve, there's usually a pileup.
people are going to drink one way or another, you can't stop that. might as well let them get their booze on sunday rather than run the risk of them going out saturday and driving to the store drunk before they close.
When I lived in North Carolina, the county I lived in was dry...however that was never a problem for us...we lived near the county line, and all one had to do to buy alcohol, was just go a few miles to the next county...
Once over in the other county, one could buy alcohol, even on Sunday...but they had another weird Blue Law..you could not buy certain items, which hinted at they were going to be used for 'work', in any sense of that word...I remember going into one of the big grocery stores on a Sunday, and in the area where the brooms, dustpans, etc, were sold, there was a sign, alerting shoppers to the fact that they could not buy these things on Sunday...Sunday was supposed to be for 'rest', and therefore one could not buy things with which one might work...you could get drunk, but could not sweep the floor...
Of course, none of these was a problem for us as we were military, and since the military base was quite close to our home, we could get anything and everything we needed...
But I grew up in Chicago...they had a very strange law regarding alcohol, tho since I have been gone from there for many years, I am not sure if this law is in effect still...anyway, bars, clubs, and restaurants were allowed to serve alcohol until 2am...then they had to stop serving alcohol until 6am or 7am, at which point they could begin serving again...
However, on Sunday, the law was a little different..instead of being allowed to begin serving alcohol early in the morning, on Sundays, they had to wait until 12 noon...it was almost as if, the lawmakers believed, that even the drinkers needed to be in church on Sunday morning, and then after church, the bars could begin serving again...
As a child, I remember walking past our neighborhoods local bar, The Horseshoe Tavern, and seeing a line beginning to form... I had to pass this tavern on my way to Sunday school and Church...upon my return, it was usually just a little before 12 noon, and the line had grown considerably...often my brother and I would lag behind my mother, as we wanted to see the doors open, and watch all those in line, rush in for a drink...we always got a kick out of that...
What could possibly be wrong with Sunday alcohol sales? It is legal every other day. Restaurants here in N. GA are at a big disadvantage trying to compete with Chattanooga. Most people who are going out for an expensive meal want to have a drink to go with it. I would much prefer to stay closer to home, but because of the prudes who are afraid Sunday sales will keep people out of church I am forced to drive an extra 30 miles each way.
By the way, where are you located where it is going to be up for a vote?
Keep the blue laws. That way the drunks will have at least one day to sober up.
VANITY: Sunday Alcohol Sales....Blue laws good or bad?
The purpose of blue laws is "control" of the community imho.
Therefore these types of laws are in direct opposition to the individual liberty defined by our founding fathers.
Blue laws = anti-American and bad
Today, those values are lost or mocked. The result is that Blue Laws are now viewed as an imposition of morality.
I am for putting it to a vote at the local level. The results will tell you a lot about each community.
Nanny state laws, forced morality, legislate morality and mandatory voluntary community services. All bogus. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Wrong. Leave other people to rise to their own greatness. Nobody's perfect and failures occur along the way. Social engineering is promoted by losers. That's to be expected because voting for the lesser of evils still begets evil. Your individual rights end where another person's begin.
I think blue laws are unnessesary imposition of government on the populous. If your faith calls for you to not buy alcohol on Sunday then dont go buy it. I dont think the government has to tell you that. You should be doing it.
If you cant help yourself then you have bigger problems.
In New Mexico there used to be a no alcohol on Sunday law. None. All day. The result was that people were making drinks out of hairspray, aftershave, and anything else that had some alcohol in it on Sunday. Pretty dangerous stuff there.
The changed it to after 12:00 PM on Sunday as a result of this.
I'm glad I can buy beer on Sunday. However, I do remember a Massachusetts liquor store owner being bummed that, after the blue law was repealed, he had to work on Sundays to compete.
State or local governments cannot "deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. --"
As Justice Harlan recognized:
"-- The full scope of the liberty guaranteed by the Due Process Clause `cannot be found in or limited by the precise terms of the specific guarantees elsewhere provided in the Constitution.
This `liberty´ is not a series of isolated points pricked out in terms of the taking of property;
-- the freedom of speech, press, and religion;
-- the right to keep and bear arms;
-- the freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures; and so on.
It is a rational continuum which, broadly speaking, includes a freedom from all substantial arbitrary impositions and purposeless restraints, . . .
It depends. If it is a hot Sunday afternoon and I just drank my last cold beer...it is a lousy law!
I haven't scanned the thread but Nanny state laws are paternizing.
I can't beleive that people would actually allow their laws to treat them like little children that can't decide whether they want to have a brew whenever they doggone well want to.
California's laws (no sales from 2 am to 6 am) are to stop drunken driving.
And don't get me started on how State liquor stores show complete contempt for the citzenry and American capitalism.
We should have a 3-day waiting period for alcohol sales.
Alcohol kills more people than firearms.
Alcohol is bad....mmmmkay.
It is silly for any part of Christianity to push these "blue laws."
The issue should be whether the stores are open or not, not what they can sell. Course that's just an old Southern tradition long gone by the wayside to keep up with the 'fast paced' yankees who have infested our states IMO
I'm in favor of this blue law. Of course, there was a time that most places were closed on Sunday.
The fact is that those who can't make it through Sunday without alcohol make a run for the liquor store before midnight on Saturday or get one of their military friends to get them on base to the BX. Then of course you can always order a drink at the neighborhood Applebee's after noon.
"Thou shalt not drink alcohol on the Sabbath."
Hmm. I can't find that commandment anywhere. BTW, this thread has nearly 400 freaking posts. Amazing for a no-brainer topic.