Why Can't We Buy Alcohol On Sunday?

Question

That is not me with the thumbs down I give everyone a thumbs up.

Answer 1

Here in KY, there is a truck stop that will still sell! In NY, you just had to wait until after Noon.

Answer 2

Lunachic is incorrect. North of Santa Cruz is a community
that began as a religious revival tenting area and is today a
village with Blue Laws. As a deputy sheriff in my youth I was
obliged to enforce Blue Laws amid Oceania. Sunday alcohol
and other restrictions, for religious reasons, exist elsewhere around the planet. Abuse the patience of Religious Police in
Saudi Arabia only if you feel lucky. Majority rules. Change
the law or lifestyle if one feels oppressed by Blue Laws. To
be seen consuming alcohol in Saudi Arabia apart from the
walled and guarded authorized areas usually means being
instantly tied upright to nearest fixed structure or palm tree
to be beaten upon back with supple rattan canes until red- white spinal bone shows amid bleeding fleshy rents. You'll
also get a bucket of salty water splashed upon the back if
the Religious Police feel recipient is worthy enough.

Answer 3

A blue law, in the United States and Canada, is a type of law designed to enforce moral standards, particularly the observance of Sunday as a day of worship or rest. Most have been repealed or are simply unenforced, although prohibitions on the sale of alcoholic beverages, and occasionally almost all commerce, on Sundays are still enforced in many areas.[1] Blue laws often prohibit an activity only during certain hours and there are usually exceptions to the prohibition of commerce, like grocery and drug stores. In some places blue laws may be enforced due to religious principles, but others are retained as a matter of tradition or out of convenience.

Answer 4

I can in NJ after 12 noon. This is the type of thing that is usually regulated by local ordinances. The same is true for what time bars may open and must close. It can vary from community to community in the same state. There are even some towns that are totally dry(sell no alcohol--period!).

Answer 5

We have the same problem. Goes back to the Puritans, those kings of repression....I buy ahead, but in a pinch there is a friendly bar owner who will part with a case or bottle when he's flattered enough :)

Answer 6

Sunday is church day.
Also, some places just don't want to work on Sunday... They need a day off too.

The key is to stock up the day before. lol

Where I live you can buy beer and wine anytime, but the hard liquor is sold through a state run liquor store. They don't open on Sunday. It's not because of religious reasons, it because the state generates revenues from liquor sales.

Answer 7

In Scotland you can buy alcohol anyday and everyday except before 12:00 midday and you can't buy it on Xmas day, Boxing day and New years day.

Answer 8

I buy beer on Sunday, In all three homes that I own which are in New York, Florida, And Montana, They sell beer on Sunday, You most live in the Bible belt, Were you can drive to a restaurant with a bar get drunk and drive yourself back home, Which in my mind is crazy, It makes no sense to me....

Answer 9

if church goers arent suppose to buy or drink on sunday then they wont do it...... it is there job to self discipline not mine. anyway why punish the ones who don't go to church on sunday but on Saturday instead I am sick of freedom of religion what about freedom not to have religion

Answer 10

Like other have said, you must live in one of those ultra conservative bible-thumping states. I can buy it here on sundays, and it seems that most everyone who has replied can also.