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March 31, 2004
The Loophole
Eateries become clubs on Sundays
If it's Sunday, and you're in Shelby County, Applebee's is a club. So is O'Charley's. So are any number of chain restaurants. There's a loophole in the no-alcohol-sales-on-Sundays law that allows "private clubs" to sell booze to their "members", but there's no regulation as to what constitutes a private club. So you go to Applebee's, give them a dollar, and fill out a form, and you're in the club and can drink to your heart's content.
Here's what we're facing:
County Commissioner Ted Crockett said Sundays "are the Lord's day, and we should relax and enjoy the day," alcohol-free. "We have gotten too permissive on Sundays anyway," he said. "Are we supposed to go seven days a week without appreciating the Lord's day?"
Didn't Jesus, uh, turn water into wine? Didn't He establish wine as part of the central ritual of the church? I'm just saying that the opposition to alcohol has little or nothing to do with Jesus or God the Father or the Bible and a whole lot to do with Baptist biases against anything that makes life tolerable.
Full disclosure: I don't drink. Well, not much. A glass of wine on rare occasions.
Posted by Mac Thomason at March 31, 2004 09:27 AM
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The same thing applies to dry counties in Texas. Michael has a membership to a "clubs united" sort of thing in the Dallas area that lets him drink at any "club" in the club club, as it were.
In Texas, it normally works out that you pay $5 to join and get a coupon for a $5 drink (or whatever the membership costs).
Posted by: Ginger at March 31, 2004 10:21 AM
Of course, that was just fine when it was only real clubs, right? But now the ordinary rabble have access to alcohol on Sundays. Next thing you know, they'll want to vote for their leaders or something.
Posted by: Mac Thomason at March 31, 2004 10:26 AM
What's that wafting up from the south? Is that the smell of HIGH-pocrisy?
Posted by: Meryl Yourish at March 31, 2004 02:03 PM
Not only did Jesus turn water into wine, but the wine was of such high quality that the steward remarked to the host that the best wine should have been served first, and a "lesser vintage" later.
Posted by: Yamaneko at April 2, 2004 01:26 AM