Hypocrisy

Alcohol sales on Sunday! This came about as the best thing fundamentalists could get as a law when prohibition didn't work.
There was more poor quality illegal whiskey during prohibition than there was when it was bottled legally. It killed more people. It started NASCAR!
Churches were allowed to use alcohol with their bread at church even during prohibition, still do.
I think the very sight of a beer joint, or liquor store, being open on the way to or from church galled the churchgoers so badly they couldn't stand it. Many of the churchmembers also were bootleggers, or some member of their family, and sales increased on Sunday if the stores didn't sell it.
The stuff is a crutch, an addiction of strong merit, an excuse for bad behaviour, and keeps the preachers and fathers busy hearing about the alcoholic sins.
It is an outdated law, preventing nothing. It is here to stay as long as prejudice, greed, murder, selfishness, and other mental problems exist.

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My take on alcohol on Sundays
Submitted by AMDG on Sat, 11/25/2006 - 11:27pm.

I'm Catholic. I believe, as some T-shirt says, "Beer is proof that God loves man and wants him to be happy." I recognize the very obvious fact that Jesus' first miracle was changing water into wine, and at a point in the wedding party where they'd already drank all of the original stash! I also affirm that nowhere does the New Testament teach prohibition of alcohol, but only of drunkeness or the abuse of alcohol.

Yet, I also respect American democracy, which means I respect the will of the people, especially when it is informed by Christian principles. The prohibition of alcohol on Sundays is indeed more of a Protestant notion since it implies that one cannot keep the Sabbath holy by buying and consuming alcohol. There may be a grain of truth in this notion, but it is based on the tendency of certain evangelical churches to believe the consumption of alcohol is sinful and incompatible with God's will.

Yet, again, I respect the will of the people, and their will in this case was that prohibiting liquor sales on Sunday was deemed a societal "good" and worth upholding. Since laws and morals are being roundly attacked on all sides by the forces of secular humanism and hedonism, while I wish I could buy a 6-pack on Sunday, I have to defer to tradition on this one.

The SOuth is a special place, and one of the things which makes it special is how it still seeks to preserve the sacred in public law and life, as is our right and obligation as American citizens.

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