Blue Laws: Easing Up on Sunday Liquor Sales

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In the bible and ONLY the bible does it say: Rest on the Sabbath, That day is Saturday. NOWHERE in the bible does it say Sunday is the Sabbath, the pope changed gods word...The pope didn't have the right to do that. I expect some of you to question that but nowhere and at no time according to the bible did god give anyone the permission to change the Sabbath..It is prophecy that in the end time the Sabbath with be an issue for god's children right before he returns to receive us. Amen on that....So the time of the end is almost upon us Yay.

Eve of MI 1:36PM April 17, 2012

America is a Christian country, whether you like it or not.
Sunday is a day of rest, therefore everything should be completely shut down on holy Sunday.
The 2% Jews that don't like the idea could move back to Israel. This is not a Jewish or Muslim nation!!!!!
85% of Americans are Christians....

Matthew of NJ 7:48PM February 20, 2011

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Slljypoq of TN 7:00PM July 14, 2009

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 12:30PM February 23, 2009

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 4:13PM January 12, 2009

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 9:44AM August 31, 2008

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 6:24PM August 16, 2008

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

Ingrid of AL 6:35AM July 22, 2008

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 4:08PM July 09, 2008

The article mentioned that the court made states that maintained the Sunday liquor law find justification for the laws that wasn't religious. I would like to see what this justification was in order to stand in awe of the process by which people twist meaning to blind common sense. There is no justification for these laws and they should have been repealed years ago. I wish the church would go to sleep more often.

Tom of IL 2:32PM July 09, 2008