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DEL.ICIO.USBecause beer is a Sunday tradition — but only if it’s surrounded by a stadium
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A bill to permit a new minor league baseball stadium in Gwinnett County to sell beer on Sundays is No. 6 on the Senate’s order of business today.
Look for its sponsors to immediately move to engross S.B. 454 — and thus prevent advocates of Sunday sales of beer and wine in retail outlets from expanding the measure through amendments on the floor.
On Monday, we ran into one lobbyist for the latter, who argued that — regardless of whether they win that technical battle — theirs is a win-win situation.
Even if S.B. 454 remains as narrow as it currently is, this lobbyist argued, the retailers will have this current crop of senators on record as supporting the sale of alcohol on the Christian Sabbath.
Speaking of which: We haven’t heard anything from religious groups on the Gwinnett stadium bill. But, supposing baseball to be akin to religion, some might consider a Sunday beer as a kind of sacrament.
Comments
By Vasily D'Effferins
February 26, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
Hold Saturday’s games on Sunday. Next issue.
By Mara
February 26, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this
Get rid of the stupid sunday laws to begin with. They are just a ridiculous holdover from pioneer days.
By Big Ed
February 26, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
Are you kidding me. Religion is a 24/7 proposition. It is not between 12AM and 12PM one day a week. The old bible belt is so hypocritcal it is beyond belief. Did you know that more pornographic content is downloaded, rented and viewed in the so called bible belt than anywhere else in the U.S. Oh but lets not sell alchohol on Sunday. Maybe the people that are crying the loudest should check behind their mega million church walls first before judging someone else.
By Mara
February 26, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this
Not everyone in the bible belt is Christian. Its only a tiny portion of the state that is in favor of no alcohol on Sunday. Classic example of rule by the minority.
By MrLiberty
February 26, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this
At the heart of any serious controversy over freedom, you can always count on bible-thumping Christians, supposedly conservative Christians - and an above average amount of hipocracy.
At the heart of it all is the most important of Jesus’s teachings - “do unto others that which you would have them do unto you.”
For as Christian as these folks say they are, they ignore this teaching every time they choose the force of government over the force of faith and word. They are asking for the force of government to impose on the freedoms of their fellow man, but would be up in arms if their fellow man were violating their rights and their freedoms.
Every argument in the book has been made by these hipocrits. On one hand they say that allowing sales would take away their freedoms. It would be nice if just one simple, complete course in logic were taught in every school in this nation. The argument they make is so devoid of logic that it is painful to even attempt to respond. Not a single bill that has ever been proposed has ever demanded that anyone be forced to sell alcoholic beverages on Sunday. All that has ever been proposed is to either allow the sale, or allow the vote on the sale.
Plenty of these bible thumpers drink themselves, so it is not about demon rum - more hipocracy. These alcoholic beverages are available at restaurants in the same city, county, etc. , but not for sale to carry home - more hipocracy.
Clearly these folks who oppose this bill, including our worthless governor, have virtually no faith in Jesus, his word, his deeds, or his example. For surely if they had true faith, they would believe in the power or words to convince, without the need for force or violence. They would believe in the power of his teachings and their ability to bring about change in his name through their living example and through faith in their fellow man to get in touch with his own morality by being allowed to make his own value judgements and choices. For without choice, how can anyone define their osn morality.
After 2000 years of struggle, how ridiculously weak must the christian religion be to be threatened by the perfectly legal purchase of a perfectly legal product by a few individuals on one particular day of the week?
By charles corley
February 26, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this
this why i hold my nose when i vote. pu
By Chief NocaHoma
February 26, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this
God is a Drunk
By Wackolibhack
February 26, 2008 11:50 PM | Link to this
It is Bush’s fault that god is a drunk. I hate Bush!!