Well, make a law where it's illegal to skip church on sunday. Herd the populace into church at gunpoint, and if they refuse to pray, that's a taserin'.

Hell, I quit drinking alcohol 20 years ago, but given a choice between dying of cirrhosis of the liver or going to church on sunday, I'll take the booze.

You know that holy water you anoint your face with? Yeah, drunks pee in that.

Yes, this is why I don't go to church here in Washington state. I'm too busy going to the grocery store buying wine and beer so I can drink all day.

Seriously, people should be able to buy and sell alcohol on Sunday. Restaurants can serve it, and really, what's the difference?

I'm tired of people wanting to legislate morality. And, no, it's not morality if after taking that drink you become drunk and drive or beat someone up.

naked_sorrow: I'm tired of people wanting to legislate moralityreligion.

Not going to church isn't immoral :P

i know I'd rather go to a liquor store than that church.

"We like to have Sundays off and go to church and do whatever we want with our families," said Suzie Riga, vice president of Green's Beverages.

Yeah, right. I predict it'll take about 15 minutes for them to decide to open on Sunday once it's legalized.

/Colorado resident
//no booze on Sunday
///you learn to live with it

Fark, are you kidding? My church IS a liquor store.

/Praise Alvis!

I've always thought the no alcohol on Sunday rules were stupid. It's not like these laws keep anyone from drinking on a Sunday after all.

Personally, I almost never drink alcohol. Still I am all in favor of allowing alcohol sales in stores 24/7. If they could come up with a good. non-religious reason to restrict alcohol sales, then I would support them, but I have yet to see anyone even make a non-religious argument for the No Sunday Sales laws.

/got nothin'

Im sure there will be a lot of pissed off non black people because of this.

Latanya Service, 32, of Camden, got a half-gallon of Bacardi, a 20-pack of beer, a couple 12-packs and some other items.

And this is the one that won't be buying on Sunday because it's the Lord's day? Hahahahaha!

smooshie: naked_sorrow: I'm tired of people wanting to legislate moralityreligion.

Not going to church isn't immoral :P

That's my biggest beef with orgganized religion. They are the biggest bunch of hypocrites who are too busy pointing out the sins of the next person, while refusing to aknowledge their own.

And don't get me started on the Southern Baptist... they are the worst of the lot.

Isn't going to church supposed to make you not want to drink instead of going to church?

ChimpZealot: Isn't going to church supposed to make you not want to drink instead of going to church?


No, it's a place where people go for an hour a week, call themselves 'Christian' and behave the complete opposite the rest of the week.

naked_sorrow: Yes, this is why I don't go to church here in Washington state. I'm too busy going to the grocery store buying wine and beer so I can drink all day.

Seriously, people should be able to buy and sell alcohol on Sunday. Restaurants can serve it, and really, what's the difference?

I'm tired of people wanting to legislate morality. And, no, it's not morality if after taking that drink you become drunk and drive or beat someone up.


The only shiatty part is that our state-run liquor stores only have a few locations open on Sundays.

/We need to be like California.
//The liquor prices/selection are teh suck up here.
///AND THEY DON'T CARRY MONTECRISTO RUM!!!!1!!1!!!

Sunday: The day religious people spend 1 hour in a room together to wash away all the times they were assholes the rest of the hours of the week.

Woo-hoo, a South Carolina thread! Boy, it'll be a big change if they allow booze to be sold on Sunday. And I know exactly where that Greene's is. That place is huge. Not surprised to know they need extra help directing traffic.

Then again, I moved from SC to Pennsylvania, which has even more retarded booze laws. It's embarassing not to be able to buy wine at a grocery store, when you can do that even in the Deep South.

Some people have addictive personalities and become dependent on drugs, alcohol or religion. I guess the church doesn't like the competition.

I'll promise not to buy/drink alcohol on Sunday if religion promises not to 'get it's jesus on' Monday thru Saturday.

What the hell does 'drinking times three' mean? Is this lady pregnant with twins?

Is that why Alabama also tried banning sex toys a couple of years ago? I've never thought to myself, "I'm sober and horny but I can't get a beer or a fake cooter so I guess I might as well go to church."

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Roger?


Is planning ahead really that difficult?

Keep your pucker mouthed bible thumping no tax paying agendas out of my free trade laws, you god fearing asssholes.
You may fear god, who you cannot see, but I can bee seen, therefore pack a heavier wallop, in court, or in the alleyway.
You want to rergulate liquor? Fine, start paying taxes on all the church owned realestate you use for your crotchfruit's indoctrination rather than growing wheat for the poor, ya bastards.
Pray alone and unseen, like the way I drink.

Isn't this a conflict of interest with the whole "separation of church and state" thing?

I, for one, would like to see a pic of Latanya. Anyone else think she probably looks like one of those mugshots from earlier in the day

/Hates Bacardi
//Once chugged half a bottle on a bet
///Not pretty

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"I should have the power to purchase whatever I want and do whatever I want without you having the power of telling me what to do," said Ford, who bought a case of PBR and a 12-pack of Schlitz...

Stay classy dude.

While reading this article, and going through the types and quantities of alcohol these people were buying to get them through ONE DAY without a liquor store, I'm forced to wonder: is the state of South Carolina populated entirely by alcoholics? This bit in particular should set off alarm bells for one poor woman's family:

"Janice Wise, 47, of Columbia, picked up a bottle of Jose Cuervo and an 18-pack of Bud Light. She hates running out of alcohol and having nowhere to turn."

Am I the only one who is blowing coffee out his nose from reading the Pabst Blue Ribbon and Shlitz?
/Live in Columbia,Sc
//you can not buy anything in Lexington County South Carolina except food and or medicine until 130 pm on Sunday's. RETARDS

These sound like DJ Jazzy Jeff lyrics.

Muslims don't recognize Jews as the "chosen" people.


Jews don't recognize Jesus as the messiah.


Protestants don't recognize the Pope as the leader of Christianity.


....and Baptists don't recognize each other at the liquor store.

said Ford, who bought a case of PBR and a 12-pack of Schlitz. "I hate overplanning. I like the continuity of going to the store Sunday and getting my beer."

My head's reeling from reading "PBR" "Schlitz" and "continuity" in the same sentence.

"We like to have Sundays off and go to church and do whatever we want with our families," said Suzie Riga, vice president of Green's Beverages.

I suppose going to church one day a week makes up for the other 6 where you're pushing the devil's liquid down people's throats.

RawData:

You know that holy water you anoint your face with? Yeah, drunks pee in that.

Hehehe, we sure do ;-D

I Borrowed Your Mom's Bong: Isn't this a conflict of interest with the whole "separation of church and state" thing?
It is, but they don't care. This is the south, home of the Christian Taliban.

These people want a theocracy, they just want to pretend it's not one.

I don't go to church on Sunday, because I'm not superstitious. I'm an adult, and I don't need anyone to lecture me about god/jesus/allah, et al.

Inflatable Rhetoric: I don't go to church on Sunday, because I'm not superstitious. I'm an adult, and I don't need anyone to lecture me about god/jesus/allah, et al.

Or the Tooth Fairy.

Uhh, let's see if I get this straight. . . . .

You go to a church, turn Jesus by magic into a cracker, eat his flesh and drink his blood in an overtly cannibalistic ritual----and YOU are calling ME a degenerate because I like to drink beer?

Case closed.

smooshie
naked_sorrow: I'm tired of people wanting to legislate moralityreligion.

Not going to church isn't immoral :P

And surely the main benefit of a government is legislating morality - i.e. making it illegal to kill people, steal, etc.

Sunday in ONTARIO...



Where we ditched many of those blue laws years ago.

CHEERS!

I think people should be allowed to go to church if they want. Damn those liberals, forcing people to go to the liquor store instead. Why do they hate freedom?

At least the product that liquor stores sell is real.

I'm one of the biggest right-wingers on Fark, and I hate blue laws.

/It's not just the fundies.
//The democrats in WA love their blue laws as well.
///And smoking bans.

TheCid: I Borrowed Your Mom's Bong: Isn't this a conflict of interest with the whole "separation of church and state" thing?
It is, but they don't care. This is the south, home of the Christian Taliban.

These people want a theocracy, they just want to pretend it's not one.


Pretty much, or they delude themselves into thinking that it's the Christian God, then it's somehow OK.

And this is coming from a Christian who is very ashamed and embarrased as how his brothers/sisters are acting

No beer on Sunday's? What is this the dark ages? The religious have no business dictating public policy based on their personal superstition.

milk_plus: Is that why Alabama also tried banning sex toys a couple of years ago? I've never thought to myself, "I'm sober and horny but I can't get a beer or a fake cooter so I guess I might as well go to church."

It "worked" in Mississippi. No new liquor stores or adult toy stores are allowed to be made. Yes, I am still pissed at Katrina for taking away my porn, strip, and liquor stores.

Also, Day_Old_Dutchie, I always had a feeling that a beer store was at the end of a rainbow and not a pot of gold.

/Friend of mine had an idea: She said that after she graduated from College((2-3 years left or so)) she was going to open up a porn shop. She figured by then that little law would be eliminated.

Snakeophelia: Then again, I moved from SC to Pennsylvania, which has even more retarded booze laws. It's embarrassing not to be able to buy wine at a grocery store, when you can do that even in the Deep South.

Well those laws are stupid, but they are there for different reasons. Nothing to do with religions there, it is the liquor lobby. Colorado is the same way. You can only get watered down beer in a grocery store. You have to go to a liquor store to get anything else. This, of course, means that every grocer has a liquor store right next door.

So why is it that way? Well the liquor stores have extremely powerful political pull and give lots of money to the right people. They realise that there would be much, much less demand for them if normal grocers could sell alcohol.

So that's just a case of a business interest playing politics.

Ima4nic8or: No beer on Sunday's? What is this the dark ages? The religious have no business dictating public policy based on their personal superstition.


Agreed. Leave religion in the church, where it belongs.

altinos: At least the product that liquor stores sell is real.

True, but the margins are higher if you have no product.

milk_plus: Is that why Alabama also tried banninged sex toys a couple of years ago?

FTFY

craigdamage: Muslims don't recognize Jews as the "chosen" people.


Jews don't recognize Jesus as the messiah.


Protestants don't recognize the Pope as the leader of Christianity.


....and Baptists don't recognize each other at the liquor store.

That, my friend, should be copyrighted.

(if it already is, then please post the source because it is magnificent!)

I guess Prohibition worked in their minds.

craigdamage: Muslims don't recognize Jews as the "chosen" people.
Jews don't recognize Jesus as the messiah.
Protestants don't recognize the Pope as the leader of Christianity.

....and Baptists don't recognize each other at the liquor store.

...or in the video booths of your local gay porn store.