This country is a melting pot of not only cultures and ethnicities but also of Religions and the freedom of CHOICE. There is a separation of Church and State that needs to be upheld. There shouldn't be a law that stipulates or is based on Religious Values, Concerns or what have you. It is a free country, and if someone wants to buy liquor on Sundays they should. This will NOT increase alcoholism or detiorate further of family values. Sundays is not just a day where families get together. This isn't the 60's. Tons of people work on Sundays because it's the job, or because they have to due to the economy. People can choose any day of the week to sit together and spend time together... it doesn't have to be sundays for Pete's sake

Steve of NY
Feb 23, 2009 12:30:13 PM [permalink] [report comment]

Sunday blue laws information

You can also check out David Laband's book at this website:

http://www.sundaybluelaws.org

It has excerpts from the book and current news of worldwide Sunday blue laws efforts.

AJones of CA
Jan 12, 2009 16:13:09 PM [permalink] [report comment]

Separate government and religion

Most of the resistance to liquor sales is baed on religion. State governments should not be supporting any religion, regardless of creed or demands being made.

People who abuse alcohol will always, ALWAYS, find a way to get alcohol, just like our drug addicts find drugs in spite of millions spent to block them.

So the blue laws that restrict Sunday sales only interfere with life for regular citizens and should be totally eliminated.

If a person is strongly religious they do not have to buy alcohol; the can NOT buy it on Suday just as easily as the do NOT buy it the six other days each week.

RCG

R Charles of PA
Aug 31, 2008 09:44:08 AM [permalink] [report comment]

Does our government need to make laws because our churches are ineffective?

Can we legislate morality?

Is organizing a politically more powerful group of people to pass a law that forces the weaker group of people to do what they want them to do, Christian?

When Christ walked the earth the religious community had a lot of laws regulating what you could or couldn't do on the Sabbath, you should read what he said about them! it wasn't polite. 300 years later we had a government submitting to religious power to force religious laws and for hundreds of years there after countless millions of people were killed for refusing to violate their beliefs and bow to the Churches mandates.

Let the government protect us and let the church save our souls, but let's not repeat history and enter into another dark age mentality and get the government mixed up with religion.

Clifford L. Wells of WA
Aug 16, 2008 18:24:32 PM [permalink] [report comment]

The real costs should be considered

Not just tax revenues generated, and happy store owners' bottom line.

Ingrid of AL
Jul 22, 2008 06:35:48 AM [permalink] [report comment]

Why more liquor?

I have yet to see where liquor has done any good! Why do prople have to have it everyday including Sunday? Maybe we could use some of that alcohol to run our cars instead of intoxicating the minds of adults, as well as, children. No day is a good day to buy alcohol for drinking, as far as, I am concerned.

How much would our country save in dollars if there was not so much drinking of alcohol?

Sherry of SD
Jul 09, 2008 16:08:05 PM [permalink] [report comment]

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