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[–] ScorpioGlitch 0 points (+0|-0)

state stores being open on Sundays

Not selling alcohol on Sunday is what's called a "blue law" and is targeted to say "You should be in church so stop trying to get drunk." And, yes, typically it restricts or prohibits sales from 2 AM to 7 AM or as late as Noon on Sundays though that can vary from state to state.

State mandated Christianity. I'm not sure how people haven't successfully sued those laws off the books yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law

[–] E-werd 0 points (+0|-0)

I'm not sure how people haven't successfully sued those laws off the books yet.

The people in question would first have to disagree or be inconvenienced by the law. Even still, you have the rest of the week to buy it anyway, it's never more than an inconvenience at worst because it's not a necessity.

[–] ScorpioGlitch 0 points (+0|-0) Edited

be inconvenienced by the law

If you're pagan and holding an early morning ritual and need wine/liquor/etc, you're inconvenienced.

If you're cooking and need wine/liquor/etc, you're inconvenienced.

If you're traveling and need to show up with a bottle of whiskey (house warming, for example), you're inconvenienced.

In any of these cases, you could have dropped what you had already purchased. Or it was stolen. Or the neighbor's teenage kid drank it. Or you bought the wrong kind. It's doesn't matter.

It's not a matter of being inconvenienced anyway - that's not how any of that works. It's a hardship. It's an embarrassment. It's an requirement. You literally have no other choices. You can't go to another store because it's regulated at the state level. It's a shame because adults are adults, period, and they don't need the state to tell them what they cannot do at a specific time "because church."

[–] E-werd 0 points (+0|-0) Edited

You've misunderstood me. I'm saying nobody gives a shit to undo it. Regardless of how the laws came into being, not enough people are convinced that it's worth the effort to reverse the policies. They can be worked around well enough that it's not really worth the trouble.