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...Along with New Year's Eve and Mother's Day, Valentine's Day is one of the most profitable days of the year for dining establishments; seven other calendar days, including Super Bowl Sunday, have already been granted blue-law exemptions in some states. "We felt like Valentine's Day had just been overlooked," says Missouri State Representative Bill Deeken. In January, Deeken proposed "Love Legislation" that would allow restaurants and bars that lacked annual Sunday liquor licenses to be open and sell alcohol on Valentine's Day. Rob Agee, a Lohman...
Missouri State Representative Larry Wilson, one of the only three people who voted against the bill, said he opposed it on moral grounds. "We shouldn't encourage people to partake of alcohol, especially on the Sabbath," he says, noting that passage of the bill would send a conflicting message to the public, since the legislature is currently working to strengthen state drunk driving laws...
...legality of the process, and a judge issued an injunction weeks later suspending the licenses, after ruling that the issue of Sunday sales had to be taken to voters first. (On Feb. 9, the city appealed and Oberholtzer says he expects the issue to go to the state's Supreme Court.) "Restaurants just lost Super Bowl weekend and now they're going to lose Valentine's Day," Oberholtzer says. "It's been devastating to them...
...examples go on. A request for allowing restaurants to sell alcohol this Valentine's Day in Oxford, Miss., was rejected without comment. In Connecticut, which is the only state in New England to still have a blue law prohibiting Sunday alcohol sales, mayors of the state's three largest cities petitioned unsuccessfully to have the law repealed - citing a 2009 study that suggested Connecticut was losing millions in tax revenue to its neighbors...
...study includes a crucial caveat: its analysis "focuses on the impact of tax policy and tax revenue for the state, not the social policy implications of allowing Sunday sales," it reads. Various studies have produced conflicting results about whether Sunday sales lead to more drunk driving or even more alcohol consumption, and those issues remain stumbling blocks - even when wine with Valentine's Day dinner is on the line...