Should alcohol be sold on Sundays?

United States
January 7, 2007 10:42am CST
My town does not allow alcohol to be sold on Sundays. Restaurants, grocery stores and alcohol stores are disallowed alchohol sales from 1 AM on Saturday night until Monday morning. I am unsure of the reason, but imagine that it is due to Sunday being the sabbath day. Strangely, it is not all towns in my state...so it isn't a state law. Larger towns in my state do allow alcohol sales on Sundays. Does your town do this? What are your feelings about this?
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@carmat (2849)
• Canada
27 Jan 07
I personally do not need to buy it anyway but we should allow the general public to purchase if it is not illegal to buy.
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@plantit1 (297)
• United States
8 Jan 07
I've heard of those kind of towns before. They call them dry towns. Mostly in the bible belt I believe where the people are really into church. Southern Baptist. I suppose they just dont want no drunks on Sunday to contend with.
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• India
8 Jan 07
no
@intech (16)
• India
8 Jan 07
its really a greatn news actually according to me the arrack must be banned from this world on all days rather then only on sundays it is very dangurous to health of the people and many people are dying because of that
@mzbubblie (3839)
• United States
8 Jan 07
I live in Va. and on sundays they are open in limited areas. Whereas in Alabama where i'm from they don't sell it on Sundays. I believe it should be sold anyday. The only thing that happens is the person would just go on Sat. So what's the point
@dude20 (20)
• India
8 Jan 07
yes they should sell liqour on sundays
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@xbrendax (2662)
• United States
8 Jan 07
In my opinion, people do enough drinking through out the entire week, so one day of rest won't hurt anybody!
@chikkadee (372)
• Australia
8 Jan 07
This rule is in effect in my entire *state* of Western Australia. Its a pain in the neck when you want to go get a drink and they are all closed, but you can always go to a pub.
@Chiriac (286)
• Romania
8 Jan 07
But it's possible that Sundays have been deemed a day of Recovery, you know, recover false teeth, recover pushbike lock keys, recover petrol sniffing can, who knows, but I think you should be greatful for it.
• India
8 Jan 07
We dont have any such restrictions in our place. It is infact available on all the days.
@dude20 (20)
• India
8 Jan 07
yes
@ahsan15 (334)
• India
8 Jan 07
it should be opened in all the days of the week i think......nd' nyway in a democratic country these kinds of restrictions should not be there...
• India
8 Jan 07
NoPE
• Bulgaria
8 Jan 07
I do not think it's normal. it should be sold in any day of the week and in any hour. Of course there should be restriction by age.
@alokji (139)
8 Jan 07
why not? all day can sold alchohal but only who person can buy who is able for this then that is not a matter that sunday will open or not.
• India
8 Jan 07
it should not be sold because on this day one should have in real fun holiday
• Thailand
8 Jan 07
Well my towm doesn't prohibits buying acohol during sunday, in fact you could buy any day of the week. Maybe your town don't want drunk folks in your churches =) just a thought.
• Germany
8 Jan 07
I think its important to sell on sunday
@serene2 (278)
• New Zealand
8 Jan 07
Times have changed and are still changing. A lot not for the better of our society. Its become an acceptable thing,but that doesn't mean it right. Its all about money in the end. But thats just my opinion.