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DEL.ICIO.USIf a tree falls in the Capitol, and all the occupants have their ears plugged, does it still make a sound?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sometimes you have to be careful about what you don’t wish for. Take Georgia’s prohibition on Sunday sales of beer and wine.
“At this time, there simply has not been any kind of broad expression of support for a vote on Sunday sales this year from Senate members or from the citizens of our state, ” said the spokeswoman for Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle this week.
And so this electronic petition has sprung up on the Internet. We don’t know much about it. We’re told a Republican businessman started it, but that doesn’t exactly narrow the field.
The petition is addressed to Cagle, Gov. Sonny Perdue and the General Assembly, and as of this morning had 234 signatures.
It’s drawn up in specific support of S.B. 138 sponsored by state Sen. Seth Harp (R-Midland).
The petition states in part:
[W]hereas religious objections are cited by members of the Georgia General Assembly, Georgia Lieutenant Governor and Senate President Casey Cagle, and Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue as the rationale for the continuation of existing “blue laws” in the State of Georgia,
And, whereas such blue laws were originally designed to enforce moral standards, particularly the observance of Sunday as a day of worship or rest, they were established in earlier eras of our history to enforce the religious beliefs and practices of some people on the entire population of the State of Georgia,
And, whereas the Undersigned clearly respect the right of all residents of the State of Georgia to exercise freedom of religion, freedom of belief, and freedom of worship….
Comments
By TK
February 14, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this
There are now 1164 signatures. Was it not SB 137 that came out of Shafer’s committee last year but did not come up in Rules??
By OneForTheRoad
February 14, 2008 8:41 PM | Link to this
If a tree falls in the state capitol and lands on all our elected officials, does anybody give a crap?