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  Do you support restrictions on when alcohol can be sold? (search mode)
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Question: as in days of the week/time fo day, etc.
#1
Yes, alcohol should not be sold on Sunday mornings
 
#2
Yes, I support some other restriction different from Option 1
 
#3
No
 
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CheeseWhiz
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« on: October 17, 2005, 07:53:36 PM »

No, obviously not.  If you’re Christian and don’t want to drink on Sunday, that’s great!  But others may not share that belief, and Sunday is really their only day off, (my dad does yard work and other things most of Friday and Saturday.)

Besides, you’re not stopping people from drinking on Sunday; they can buy their beer on Saturday and enjoy it the next day.  All you’re doing is hurting business.

P.S. Dazzelman, I can see where you’re going with what you said, but I really think the first line of the last paragraph was way off.  People can be religious, without wanting it in their laws.
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CheeseWhiz
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« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2005, 09:19:50 PM »

No, obviously not.  If you’re Christian and don’t want to drink on Sunday, that’s great!  But others may not share that belief, and Sunday is really their only day off, (my dad does yard work and other things most of Friday and Saturday.)

Besides, you’re not stopping people from drinking on Sunday; they can buy their beer on Saturday and enjoy it the next day.  All you’re doing is hurting business.

P.S. Dazzelman, I can see where you’re going with what you said, but I really think the first line of the last paragraph was way off.  People can be religious, without wanting it in their laws.

I don't think restriction of alcohol sales is really a church-state issue.  I think most of the time people raise church-state issues, it's a red herring.  Most people who complain about religion are only too happy to force their own brand of religion onto people.

At this point, at least up north, it's more a special interest issue than religious issue.  Up here, most liquor stores are privately owned, and the owners want Sundays off.  It is liquor store owners here who lobby in favor of restrictions on liquor sales.  They want to continue to control the market (liquor here can only be sold in separate liquor stores, not supermarkets, which are only allowed to sell beer) and they don't want to be forced to open on Sundays.  That's what drives the issue here, not religion.

Yes, and I agree with.  I just thought part of your post was rather harsh towards nclib.
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