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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News Sunday booze: Bye-bye blue laws
Posted By John Grooms on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Lawmakers in Raleigh are proposing that the state allow liquor sales on Sunday. Let's see, it's 2009, so that means North Carolina can finally get around to joining the 20th century - not the 21st, mind you, the 20th.
Hey, better late than never. Liquor currently can't be sold in N.C. due to "blue laws." These archaic legal travesties were enacted back in the days when Bible thumpers ruled the South with an iron fist, in order to enforce the puritanical beliefs of various Christian Protestant sects.
These kinds of yahoos are still thumping around the state, as proven by Rep. Ray Warren of Alexander County (population 34,000, including its one and only incorporated town, Taylorsville), who pontificated that, "Sunday is a day set aside for worship, family time together, and the sale of alcohol on that day is not warranted or needed." Well, alrighty then, Ray, don't sell liquor in Alexander County on Sundays (except maybe untaxed moonshine) - just don't tell the rest of us that we have to live the way you do.
With any luck, readers, you'll soon be able to have dinner and a drink on Sunday in Charlotte, like normal people.
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