Georgia is one of the only three states that does not allow the saleof alchohol in stores on Sunday. The previous governor, Sonny Perdue, threatened a veto every time a bill was proposed to allow local voting on the option. The current governor, while a teetotaler, stated that it is up to the local people to determine whether or not they wanted it in their community and would sign such legislation.
Up pops groups such as the Christian Coalition and other organizations and churches in opposition to the bill. They are putting pressure on legislatures, with threats of cuts in donations or campaigning against them, if they vote to allow the sale of alchohol on Sunday's. OK, I admit, that is their right, to make their feelings known.
However, it is not their right to impose their beliefs and practices on everyone else. Especially with the reasons they give.
Alchohol can already be purchased 6 days a week. They don't need a 7th.
People can already go to a restaurant and drink on Sunday, they don't need to get it in a store. (Stupid logic. Drinking at a restaurant increases the potential for a dui, and for hurting someone else. However, picking up a six pack to take home, or a bottle of wine, does not).
What's wrong with those statements? The word "need". Its true, nobody needs to purchase alchohol on Sunday. But its not an issue of need. The restaurants around here get crowded on Sundays after service. Why, because the churchgoers go out to eat on Sunday's. They don't need to, they have 6 other days to go out and eat.
The supermarkets here get crowded on Sundays. Why? Because after the churchgoes eat, they go shopping in their Sunday finest. They don't need to, they have 6 other days a week to shop. (And it wasn't that long ago when stores and restaurants had to close on Sundays, but obviously, these same people pressured to get the laws changed).
Yet this minority wants to impose their practice on others, while they practice what they will. I bet there are even a bunch that work on Sunday, or go hunting, or to the movies.
Will this new legislation change my life? Probably not. I don't drink on Sunday, but that is for dietary reasons. But, if I had unexpected visitors and wanted to purchase a bottle of wine on Sunday, I should be able to.
It is this imposition of their will upon others that make me ashamed, sometimes, to call myself a Christian, this and many of the prejudices that they exhibit. And, its not a political thing, there are plenty of Christian Democrats and Republicans down here so either neither or both parties are to blame.
So, Christian Coalition, etc., just like I say to the government, get out of my life. Do not impose your values, practices, etc. upon me, or anyone else for that matter.
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