Monday, June 12, 2006
Fuck Georgia And Its Puritanical Blue Laws...Apparently, the Peach State has a law in place preventing its citizens from purchasing alcohol at any time on Sundays.
That is, unless they want to go to a bar and get tanked up. Then it's a-ok to drink on Sundays.
On our way home from Savannah (good, not great) yesterday, we stopped by the Fresh Market to hopefully find a Sweetwater Brewing Company beer that isn't available in North Carolina.
After locating my beer and walking around the store for a while, a gentleman tapped me on the shoulder and asked me "Are you planning on buying that today?".
Uh oh.
He went on to inform me of Georgia's aforementioned blue law.
In a cruel twist of fate, the beer I wanted to purchase was Sweetwater's "Blue".
The irony makes me want to spit in someone's face.
What fucking purpose do these antequated hold-overs from the temperance movement serve, anyway?
It's not just a Georgia problem, either. Just about every state I've spent time in has some degree of this holier-than-thou Christian nonsense on its books.
Exactly what concern is it of ANY government whether I purchase a product on a Sunday if that same product is available all other six days of the week?
Fuck you, Georgia...
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