The Crux of the Matter Regarding Blue Laws

Blue laws are all about local rule and consent of the governed.  If states/localities want to change them--fine, whatever.

I see them not as "archaic" but as one of the few categories of law where Christian (and whatever other) principles of the people of a county or town are still allowed to hold sway. 

Personally, I think blue laws are more symbolism over substance in the grand tradition of making a political show over a really meaningless gesture that does nothing to encourage personal, individual responsibility. 

Disagreeing as I do due to the intellectual and spiritual vacuity of  blue laws, I still will fight for the right of localities to determine their own laws in such matters as well as in many other, much more important matters. 

To overrule local governments in order to get rid of such laws in the state or the country would be "big mother" tyranny in the name of universal order by those with excessively rigid mind sets. 

The economy is there to serve us, not the other way around.  Screw "what's best" for business!  Let's let the people of communities, cities, and counties determine, rightly or wrongly, for themselves what they want.   A little disorder, or anarchy, or lack of uniformity--whatever you want to call it--can be the most appealing feature of local governments vs. the growing reality of universal misery dictated by the central government.

The concepts involved here are "consent of the governed" and "local self-rule."  If nothing else, the existence of blue laws can be a good lesson to those citizens who are increasingly antithetical to the fundamental principles of a true republic.

wtc