I thought Republicans were supposed to be pro-business, pro-freedom, anti-regulation

LOL

When increased fun collides with pro-business, pro-freedom and anti-regulation, fun goes straight out the window.

All the while, they talk about going to revivals, and only dating other students who go to revivals, but when push comes to shove, it's the bottom dollar that trumps Jesus everytime... especially when it concerns the chance to drink or have sex with a hot student or drive a better car than someone else

They'll do whatever it takes as long as it affects number 1

and that number 1 ain't Jesus

If one can decide other's healthcare by your religious beliefs, why interfere with religious celebrations?

Think about it. We are talking of a ban on the SALE of Alcohol one day out of seven. If someone wants to drink on Sunday, but can NOT plan one day ahead for such drinking, do you really want him or her drinking?

Remember we are NOT talking about a drink with dinner, it is clear that serving drinks in restaurants is already legal. This propose change in the law says that places whose primary business is to sell drinks, can sell drinks on Sunday. Places, whose primary purpose is to sell food, can already sell drinks on Sunday.

Thus we are talking about people who can NOT plan around a one day a week ban on buying alcohol, a ban that can be worked around by buying your alcohol the day before. Do you really want people with so lack the concept of PLANNING to buy alcohol, a substance known to reduce one's ability to PLAN even more? It is bad enough that such people can buy alcohol six days a week, do you willing think it is good public policy to expand such lack of planning an extra day?

In my old age I am turning more and more prohibitionist, i.e. restrict but not ban the sale of alcohol. I have seen to many people who can NOT function do to their alcohol addiction and to many families who end up in court (mostly over custody and other family matters) where alcohol is a major factor. I still oppose prohibition, but I support restrictions, including a ban on alcohol advertising (like the ban on Cigarette advertisements). I also support the legalization of pot, but with the same restrictions that is impose on Alcohol (and for the same reason, to take organized crime out of distribution of both, thus permitting those people who want both to get both legally, but to restrict the sale of both to minimize the harm caused by both).

Just a comment, that a ban on sale one day a week imposes a very limited restriction on the ability to obtain and use alcohol, but do you really think people who can NOT plan a day ahead be able to obtain a substance that makes such planning more difficult for them?

It's a bill that has nothing to do with darn Cletus who can't remember to buy extra Thunderbird on Saturday to drink it on Sunday. It's a bill to equalize business opportunity on one of the top 3 busiest days in the entertainment year. St Patrick's Day, which incidentally I despise as both pointless bastardization and full of amateur drinkers, is for some reason a day when people tend to drink outside the home in large communal groups much like the Wed before Thanksgiving or New Year's Eve. Applebees can accommodate them. Joe's Tavern cannot when it falls on a Sunday. Why is that fair to Joe's when depending on area it's potentially his busiest day of the year and definitely in the top handful? Why do Applebee's and BWW get to have the profit and not Joe?

Connecticut finally saw the light on Sunday alcohol sales a couple of years ago.

Sunday prohibition. It forced them to stay open and compete with supermarkets, at least for beer. I don't know why we can't buy wine in supermarkets here. It doesn't make sense...