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
I never understood the law. Jesus manufactured alcohol.
I have no probelm with sunday alcohol sales...as long as it's after 12:00PM.
Why after noon? Why not at eight a.m. like all the other days?
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.
*high fives*
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?
As I age, it's getting tougher to pound enough Saturday night to coast until Sunday afternoon. :)
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