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To: Tax-chick
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.

Exactly. I've never understood these laws. People just stock up on Saturday or go somewhere close by where 'blue laws' are not in place.

402 posted on 07/10/2006 7:27:24 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: MEGoody

The laws against alcohol on Sunday are a survival from the days when everything was closed on Sunday. At least that made sense, from a religious perspective: The Bible says you take a day of rest, so businesses should be closed.

Eventually the Sunday-rest concept faded, but anti-alcohol sentiment was strong, so "No alcohol sales on Sunday" is a hybrid of Sabbath-keeping and Prohibition.

I've lived a couple of places where alcohol wasn't sold from midnight to noon Sunday. I'm not sure what the expected outcome of that is! They can't really think many people are going to get up on a Sunday morning and make a decision between going to church or buying booze!


412 posted on 07/10/2006 9:36:45 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Hyperbolic rodomontade of the most puerile type." ~ Aaron Elkins)
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