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Tyler Stoering

People should be able to buy alcohol on a sunday

Latest Post: January 9, 2010 at 2:55 AM

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In Minnesota where I live, citizens can't buy alcohol on sundays (I'm not sure about the status of the law in other states). Apparently this is known as a Blue Law. It was originally enacted a puritan law, and was on the books next other laws that prohibited other businesses from being operated on Sundays. The laws were apparently enacted also to encourage church attendance. Nowadays, the laws are
legal because they "promote the general welfare."

The law seems ridiculous.

(source: http://wcco.com/goodquestion/Good.Question.alcohol.2.372465.html)

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Rick Murphy

January 9, 2010 at 2:55 AM

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Are you allowed to accept a bottle of alcohol as a gift on Sundays? Are you allowed to drink something you already bought?

If so, seems to me there is room for a middleman in Minnesota to make a fair amount of money by opening a store in which on Sundays you could pay $20 for a pack of gum and get a bottle of wine for free. Or whatever. Have people already tried this or is it just something everyone puts up with?