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No Alcohol Sales and Blue Laws are Unconstitutional
All the laws passed by the citizens of this country under fear of reprisal by Bible thumping do-gooders should be repealed.
Let’s start with the laws against the sale of alcohol in each and every county. Let's Repeal all those laws and the Sunday Blue laws that go with them.
To all those desiring a change to the alcohol sales status of your county, good luck to the wetter’s and bad luck to the dryer’s.
To those who are rallying their religious brethren to fight their county going wet, please reconsider. You are enjoying a host of freedoms that you are trying or have already denied to your fellow citizens. Your freedom to assemble, freedom to pursue happiness, even the freedom to drink the beverage of your choice are all freedoms you have because those who chose to drink alcohol have not attempted to take them away from you.
You doubt that you have denied these freedoms to others so I will explain. Freedom to assemble is denied to those who drink alcohol because dry counties don’t have bars for people to assemble in, only private clubs which cost money to join, money many do not have to spare. Freedom to pursue happiness is denied because in order to attain it a long drive to the county line is required, maybe not totally denied but a barrier is placed in the way that non-alcohol consumers don’t have.
Now for that oddball one. Freedom to drink the beverage of your choice. You deny easy access to alcohol for those who chose to drink it but you can go to any food store or quick stop and buy a bag, can or cup of coffee. How would you feel if that was denied to you? It’s a disgusting, smelly, addictive beverage and it has terrible physiological effects on the human body and it should be banned or at the least sold only in stores that sell other beverages that are controlled. Those of us who consume alcohol could band together and lobby to have coffee added to the list of beverages that are only sold in package stores alongside the beer and wine. Would that wake you up to the unfairness of dry counties? Voting or keeping a county dry has little to do with public safety, only with the ability of one group to impose it’s will over another and when it comes to this subject it is usually through shame or the threat of public shame that people allow their vote to be misused by religious zealots.