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
If it is legal on Monday it should be legal on Sunday. On the other hand when I was a kid stores were not open on Sunday anyway so even if it had been legal there would have been few places to buy liquor. Many places,including markets closed at noon on Saturday and a market open until 5PM was cause for a banner out front.
It does seem silly. Sundays are a good time to invite folks to your home for dinner, and any good guest knows that a bottle of table wine is a welcome host/ess gift.
Of course, if you are careful not to offend, or you are dining with Baptists, you may opt for flowers or loaves of French bread. ;o)
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Silly Law Alert!
I think that the state shouldn't make these kinds of choices for us.
I've been doing a lot of landscaping in my back yard lately. When I get going, the last thing I want to do is stop and go back out to the store. So I stopped by the store to buy a six pack - for later in the day, after I've worked up a good sweat - and was told I can't purchase beer before noon.
Stupid law! So I'm penalized for waking up at five am and getting all my shopping done at the local garden stores around 7am so I can be starting my work by 7:30? Sheesh, this must be what they mean by Nanny State!!!!
A GeorgiaDawg is a GeorgiaDawg....!!
By the way, I appreciate all of your comments folks...agree or disagree, I appreciate the points of view.
"Selective blue laws never did make sense to me...either have a day off where commerce is not allowed so everybody gets a mandantory day off or allow it all."
Actually, that was more-or-less how it was in Texas until the 1980's.
Only food and medicine could be sold.
(Now, it's no car sales, no hard alcohol, and beer/wine after noon.)
The Blue Laws were great for business in Arcade when I was going to school in Athens. We paid an obscene amount for a case of beer and a fifth of bootleg burbon on Sundays.
I thought the point was made mute by Jesus when he commanded the the cripple to 'take up your bed and walk', on the Sabbath?
People buying and selling goods and services violates none of the actual rights of people, thus, such laws are a form of tyranny, and should be opposed by those in a free society.
And...? They're getting paid, aren't they?
It's based on a tradition that recognizes Sunday as a special day. Yes, that tradition has some basis in religion, but that doesn't make it the same as the law being based purely on a religious belief.
That's a supremely arrogant statement.
Back in the days when Catholics didn't eat meat on Friday, how would you have liked it to be a law that no one could buy meat on Friday?
After all, if you can't plan around not being able to buy meat on Friday, you surely have other, more serious issues, don't you?
"I agree, but then I don't think it should be sold in restaurants or bars on Sunday either.
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I see. So, because you think drinking alcohol is not a good thing, you think you should be able to tell me that I cannot drink it? I get it, now.
Sorry, but I think I'll just do as I please, and let you do as you please. How about that?
The problem is with the usurpation of freedom, not liquor.
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