Posted on 07/06/2006 11:35:38 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg
Even Massachusetts has repealed its alcohol-related Blue Laws.
So now if you suddenly decide to invite some friends over for dinner on a Sunday evening, you can get wine, beer and liquor.
It's really a lot better. Plus it means people don't have to go to a bar to have a drink on a Sunday, which means theydon't have to drive.
I was born and raised in TX and lived in WA for 3 years. I'm accustomed to sales after noon on Sunday and that's limited to beer and wine in TX...not sure about WA anymore, since I left in 1980.
I see nothing wrong with that as it stands. But I do see that this as a rehash of the argument about whether or not the nation is founded upon Christian principles. I happen to believe that it was, so I honor those principles by adhering to the Sunday liquor law in my state. If a person is so desperate to drink for those extra four hours, I'd say he has bigger problems than the liquor laws.
It is not the government's place to determine this. Alcohol should be sold whenever a vendor or buyer would like. (In fact, the government should be out of the selling business all together, but that is a different issue.)
YOU keep the day Holy by observing it any way you want.
I think Blue laws are an abomination.
This may come a big suprise to some folks:
The people who will drink on Sunday upon repeal of the blue laws are already drinking on Sunday. They buy more on Saturday.
The people who do not drink on Sunday now, probably do not drink on other days either. They will not likely start due to repeal of the blue laws.
I've never really understood why people get so excited over it whenever the subject comes up for consideration.
Can't you keep the Sabbath holy by deciding yourself about the purchase of alcohol, and let others that believe differently, do the same?
Keeping the sabbath holy applies to you and yours. No matter what store is open, you and you alone have to make the choice to do something that honors the sabbath or does not.
Blue Laws are stupid, laws should not enforce religious beliefs.
Not to mention, which sabbath are you referring to? IIRC doesn't Jewish sabbath begin sunset on Friday? Seems to me if you want to make a law that protects "the sabbath" you would have to outlaw those sales from sunset friday until monday morning. ; )
I loved the blue laws. I think they helped make life more civil. I cried when large stores opened on Sundays. It changed the entire tenor of the state.
Same here, man!
Also, I don't care for sleeping on the couch.
Hmm...as a non-Christian, I have no problem with people buying alcohol on Sundays. The trouble with these blue laws is that they apply to everyone, but are based on the Christian (mostly) idea that Sunday is the Sabbath.
For non-Christians, that idea has no relevance. Even for some Christians, like Seventh Day Adventists and Messianic Christians, it is also silly, since they celebrate the Sabbath on Saturday.
The bottom line is that Christians who feel that buying alcohol on Sundays is wrong should not buy alcohol on Sundays. That's simple enough, I think.
You're begging for a suicide bomber from a certain unnamed religion unless you include the entire day of Friday.
Ironically, Mass. has (or had when I went to school there) Sunday blue laws. I think they were all day.
The fraternity used to drive to NH on Sunday, if over consumption ocurred.
Much safer, that drunken drive.
not to be confused with GeorgiaDawg32..:-)
Jesus was a bootlegger. He made wine and I assume did not pay the required tax.
I can't believe the reply of most of the FReepers here. Look, if a person can't go one day out of seven without buying alcohol, they surely have problems.
Just on a Sunday?
First, "unseemliness" is a stupid thing to base criminal law upon. Second, if it unseemly at 8am on Sunday, what makes it okay on Monday at 8 am or at noon on Sunday? Third, why should, say, Orthodox Jews have to forgo their Sunday morning shopping if you don't have to forgo your Saturday Sabbath mercantile activity?
Someone has to work on Sunday at all those places.
'Give to Caesar that which is Caesars'
Since Caesar didn't create grapes, no tax needed to be paid.
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