(I took this post down, thinking it was too rash. I counted to ten like a good boy, did some research, then decided to put it back up. I even found someone who basically had the same exact type of post.)
The religious right still thinks it’s necessary to control wine sales on Sunday morning. This throws me into a angry tantrum. I go to buy my sweet mother a basket of pasta, sauce, fresh bread and pesto. I put a nice bottle of wine in the basket and get told, “No alcohol on Sunday morning.”
This has no doubt infuriated thousands, especially tourists who are completely shocked at this when passing through. Not only that, the poor minimum wage check-out girl has to hear the ranting and raving of everyone who comes through the line. The bag boy has to keep taking packages of beer and wine back. The roads get twice as much traffic as everybody begrudgingly goes back to the store at 12.
Really? Seriously? This makes sense to you? Plenty of laws are good ones. For instance.
- Strict laws against drunk driving.
- Strict laws against under age drinking.
- Making sure everybody stops at a red light.
- Strict laws concerning school buses.
But this Sunday law is the most ridiculous thing on the planet, and you know it. It doesn’t prove anything just like Prohibition didn’t work. All it does is make most people angry. The rest of them learn to stockpile booze, which in the end, defeats any purpose of you limiting sales on Sunday.
It’s called a “Blue Law” as stated in Wikipeda. In North Carolina, you can’t buy booze in the supermarket from 2am to 12pm on Sundays. There is also a weekday limit from 2am to 7am. This stuff is leftover from Puritan times. The idea is trying to “keep the sabbath holy”.
This type of stuff makes me pretty angry, because to me, the conservative religious right is the one harping on about how “government is taking away all our freedoms“, “government is too big“. Then we have stuff like this where basically religion is telling government when I can buy a bottle of wine.
You have every right to worship the god you want. That’s what makes America beautiful. But this? This appears to be a double standard.
