Lets say I want to have a sunday barbecue and want to pick up a 6-pack? Can anyone think of a logical argument for why this law is still upheld?
2006-10-31 01:26:49 · 12 answers · asked by Tyson 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Arkansas has the infamous 'blue laws' as well. As recently as 20 years ago, it would have been illegal to buy nails on a sunday (but not a hammer). The liquor law remains.
One particular sunday, unaware of this insanity, I went into a gas station that happened to have particularly nice selection of beer to pay for my gass and grab a six pack. The clerk lifted her eyebrow, looked at her friends (One was literally holding a Bible), then looked back at me and expressed the fact she couldn't sell me alcohol on sundays. It dawned on me why and I threw the twenty for my gas on the counter, leaving the beer there, and in IRONY of IRONIES...
catch myself exclaiming loudly...
"G-d d-mn Christians!"
I nearly crashed about four miles down the highway 'cause it suddenly hit me what I said and I died laughing.
ANNNNNYWAYS -- to get back to your question. It's purely religious but it's passed off as 'community morals laws' which sadly are not illegal or unconstitutional in this country.
2006-10-31 01:34:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Blue laws. At least that's what they were called in TX. There are a LOT of Sunday-only Christians in the world. So for them the hours between 9am and noon on Sunday are the only times during the week they have to be "good". The rest of the time they can drink and do all the things they say they don't.
2006-10-31 01:40:43 · answer #2 · answered by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Connecticut banned Sunday alcohol sales in 1933, while Prohibition became repealed and regulation of alcohol sales became left as much as the states. by way of the years, tries have been made to alter the regulation and open up liquor sales on Sunday. particularly (or consistent with hazard no longer so), the main suitable opposition has come no longer from any non secular leaders, yet from the proprietors of small mom-and-pop liquor shops, who choose the day without work! a lot of them sense that sales from sales on Sundays does no longer be sufficient to cover the fee of being open on Sundays (or after 8 pm the remainder of the week, for that depend).
2016-12-09 00:17:06 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL Ever read Uncle John's Bathroom reader? They have stupid laws like; It's illiegal to drag a dead horse down the road on a wednesday in Texas.
Always a good laugh. Answer to your question; just for control.
2006-10-31 01:38:18 · answer #4 · answered by ηιgнт ѕтαя 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That law was recently changed. You can now buy alcohol after 8am every day of the week.
2006-10-31 01:41:20 · answer #5 · answered by ♥ terry g ♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple. The preachers can't buy it while thay're in services, so they push legislatures to ban it from being bought until they get out of church!! Same reason most dry counties are dry!!
2006-10-31 01:30:47 · answer #6 · answered by tinkerbell24 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They're called Blue Laws. Keep holy the Sabbath Day. Is there any reason why you can't have your BBQ on Saturday?
2006-10-31 01:31:16 · answer #7 · answered by Babs 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Maybe they don't want drunk people in church...
We have that law in Scotland aswell, it's always confused me slightly. =/
Upholding a tradition?
2006-10-31 01:30:31 · answer #8 · answered by dirty_class 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because if people cannot spell religious, they cannot buy alcohol.
2006-10-31 01:36:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Ask your legislature
2006-10-31 01:29:09 · answer #10 · answered by King 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋