[Sam Cree]

"liquor sales on Sundays is a somewhat arbitrary and unnecessary imposition of your will on others as to when they are allowed to conduct business, but to be honest, it's not really that major an issue to me."

That's a reasonably "major" concept in a country whose main principle is individual freedom, or is supposed to be, at least I think so.

I see this as reflective of MissouriConservative's Christianity, which is a fine thing, but it's also getting to be law that respects an establishment of religion. I like better the kind that allow the free exercise of such, not the kind that mandate it.

The same way I square the laws on speed limits, drug usage, drunk driving laws, pornography laws, age limit laws

Those laws specifically protect citizens from harm, blue laws don't, the analogy, I think is not valid.

[Meglos]

That's what I was getting at, Sam -- the principle here is more important than the specific issue. As I try to find my own political moorings, I often find myself struggling between "just leave me (and others) alone to interact with others as I wish" libertarianism vs. some sense of community-oriented agreements (religously inspired or not) that some things maybe should be restricted a bit.

My analytical side tells me that freedom should reign supreme, but my practical side has to acommodate much that that I've witnessed, which often includes a little more of a cesspool environment than I'm willing to accept.

FWIW, I think we've strayed way too far from real freedom, but I suspect that's a topic for another thread. :-)