No alcohol sales on Sunday

Why do these laws still exist in so many cities? We have people taking down ten commandments in courtrooms, getting their panties in a bunch at nativity scenes, some even call Christmas trees 'holiday trees'. I don't have a problem with most of that, but it should at least be consistent.

Yet so many places aren't allowed to sell alcohol on Sunday, which is blatantly a law built up from church teaching. Not only that, but it's just plain stupid. From a secular point of view, why do we have laws that are based on religion, which this law clearly is, if it weren't, there would be no reason to hold Sunday as the day where you can't buy liquor.

It doesn't even make sense from a religious point of view. I personally don't believe alcohol consumption is a sin, unless you drink too much. However, even if one viewed it as a sin, it is just as sinful to get hammered any other day of the week as it is on Sunday. Why the arbitrary ban?

I know it's possible to just drive to the next county/parish for your liquor, but that's a lot of trouble, and simply shouldn't be necessary.

Liquor stores like the the blue laws regarding no alcohol sales on Sunday in Colorado. They get a day off. They viciously oppose the thought of re-opening legality of sales on Sunday for just that reason!

You can't sell cars in Colorado on Sunday either. (Though the reasoning behind that one, I still don't fully get why.)

Those laws are a load of poppycock! Alcohol should be banned on Saturdays, the real Sabbath day!

But then we wouldn't be able to buy the wine we need for mass on Sunday.

In the case of Georgia, it's mainly because of Sonny Perdue, the former governor.

AFAIK they're state wide for the most part, although some of them are different for different regions.

Tom: You'd think the supermarkets that have to be open on Sundays anyway would be able to push hard enough to cancel out the lobbying(?) of the liquor stores.

I seriously doubt liquor stores want to be forced to close on certain times. The one I worked at actually advertised that it was open for the maximum amount of time allowed by law.

Well, it's a day where they don't have to pay wages to employees (unless they want to send one or two in to clean up) so that could offset the money lost from not selling anything on Sunday, especially since most people are smart enough to plan ahead and buy earlier if they need alcohol for something.

Well, it's a day where they don't have to pay wages to employees

Buh?

^If their employees are hourly workers, and the store is closed on Sunday, that means the employees don't work and management doesn't have to pay them.

Another factor to consider is that the rules are often inconsistent (IIRC they don't apply to restaurants for some reason). And the people who are allowed to sell on Sundays want to keep their monopoly.

Just do what uncle would do - go to a church and shotgun their whole bottle of communion wine.

Then run like hell.

If their employees are hourly workers, and the store is closed on Sunday, that means the employees don't work and management doesn't have to pay them.

They're also not getting money from sales.

Perhaps they don't want people to be hungover on Mondays? Monday is the worst day of the week, even without hangover. Fact.

Yeah, but that only applies if they don't have reason to be open, if people came in on Sunday, there'd be reason.

I think everyone knows what my opinion will be here.

In my state you can buy liquor on Sundays, just after 12:00pm.

It's still a fucking retard law, though. Man should be able to buy a bottle of Southern Comfort at 9am on Sunday if he wants.

edited 10th Jan '11 8:04:30 PM by MarkVonLewis

Uhh if you need to drink alcohol at 9am and you're not just coming off the night shift, you have bigger problems than not been able to buy alcohol on a Sunday morning.

Or in other words, you're a freaking alcoholic. (That's the condition anyways. I personally am not accusing you of being one.)

Well as most of my drinking has been, let's say clandestine, I don't drink that often. Next month, though, my drinking will be non-clandestine.

But I'm fully aware that in the distant future I will become an alcoholic, or at the least a heavy drinker. And I'm fine with that. So, I'm not an alcoholic now, but gimme 20 years or so to work on it.

edited 10th Jan '11 8:13:50 PM by MarkVonLewis

Without the laws, any liquor store owner is free to close up shop on Sunday (or any other day of the week, for that matter).

With the laws, those liquor stores that would like to operate on Sunday are just out of luck.

These and other kinds of blue laws are slowly starting to vanish in certain counties in South Carolina. Since we're the buckle of the bible belt, I don't think it will be terribly long before other areas start to follow the example.

If their employees are hourly workers, and the store is closed on Sunday, that means the employees don't work and management doesn't have to pay them.

They'd easily make more than enough money from sales to pay for workers. If you're actually losing money by being open and don't earn enough money to pay workers after sales, then the business wouldn't stay open very long in the first place.

Uhh if you need to drink alcohol at 9am and you're not just coming off the night shift, you have bigger problems than not been able to buy alcohol on a Sunday morning.

But what about those three-day benders where you run short early Sunday morning?

Or what if you're planning a party later that day?

Also, if it's bad to get drunk early in the day, it's just as bad to drunk early Monday-Saturday, so the ban is still arbitrary as those other days don't have restrictions.

"I can't purchase alcohol on sundays...why? Because people think there's an invisible man in the sky!"

Thank you, Mac Lethal...