Tea Party Leads Blue Law Repeal? Alcohol Sales on Sunday in Georgia?
Activism Saturday, February 5th, 2011
by Saul Relative, Yahoo News
You just might see it — the actual sale of alcohol on Sunday in Georgia. At present, it is against the law for package beer, wine, and liquor to be sold on Sunday within the state. But a new bill being introduced in the Georgia legislature could change all that. And it appears that the reason for the passage of HB10 has a lot to do with members of the tea party.
According to Jim Galloway at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the blue law is on the fast track to repeal. Once a standing unassailable political monolith and fought for by those attempting to preserve southern traditions and southern religious values, support for the blue law prohibiting the sale of alcohol on Sunday has slowly been losing support over the years.
The most dominant argument for continuing the blue law has come from Christians and religious affiliated group whose goal is to maintain a “holy” and alcohol-free Sabbath (traditionally, a Sunday). But the bill has nothing to do with maintaining and keeping of Sabbath traditions, or so says Sen. John Bulloch, R-Ochlocknee. He is introducing the legislation, which just passed through the Senate committee unimpeded. He says that the bill is all about local control, a common mantra that resonates within the tea party members of the Republican Party.
Galloway also mentions the new bill’s success is partially due as well to the absence of former governor Sonny Perdue and his “Southern Baptist, non-alcoholic persuasions.” That, and the near total absence of Christian anti-alcohol lobbying in the state capital.
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