Tennessee needs to modernize. With the recent law to allow wine sales in grocery stores, now is the moment to legalize wine and liquor sales on Sundays. These archaic Laws make no sense in a 21st-century economy, where Sunday is now the second busiest shopping day of the week.

With that new law, wine will be sold in grocery stores but ONLY from 8am to 11pm, and not on Sundays. This is not acceptable. If a store sells wine, then it should sell wine whenever the store is open.

Tennessee is one of the 12 remaining states in the USA that will not sell liquor and wine on Sundays. With the recent growth of population throughout Tennessee, a lot of people feel the need for our lovely state to grow up and adapt to the 21st century.

1. This law would help the economy too:

By allowing stores to be open on Sundays, sales volumes increase which translates into additional profits for the state’s liquor business and consequently increased tax revenue.

For the important 35-54 year old demographic, Sunday is the second most important grocery shopping day of the week. Some 16% of 35-54 year-olds do their grocery shopping on Sundays. Since over 43% of total distilled spirits consumers fall into this age category, it means that the distilled spirits industry is denied access to at least 7% of our customer base.

          2. Religious reasons:

The prohibition of Sunday liquor sales is a typical thing of the bible belt. When the religious reason is often stated, it is true that the bible condemns drunkenness, although wine (Jesus turned water into wine) is often to be enjoyed.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 instructs, “Drink your wine with a merry heart.”

Psalm 104:14-15 states that God gives wine “that makes glad the heart of men.”

Amos 9:14 discusses drinking wine from your own vineyard as a sign of God’s blessing.

Isaiah 55:1 encourages, “Yes, come buy wine and milk…”

Jesus changed water into wine. It even seems that Jesus drank wine on occasion (John 2:1-11; Matthew 26:29).

 

In conclusion: Do you really know a lot of people that wants to prohibit the sales of liquor and wine on Sundays? I personally have never encountered someone willing to do so.

If we sell liquor and wine every other days of the week, why not Sundays?

Wouldn't you like to be able to buy a good bottle of wine to enjoy your dinner on a Sunday night?

Wouldn't you like to be able to sip a delicious high gravity beer while watching your favorite Sunday night television show?

Wouldn't you like to be able to enjoy an amazing liquor responsibly after a long week of work?

Please sign this petition and with your help, we will make Tennessee the modern state it deserves to be!