Comments on: Georgia gov: the people can vote on marriage equality, but not blue laws

by: Rex

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:04:27 +0000

No problem with me…I feel sorry for the Gays and lesbians & thier families living in GA. As a Gay Man living in Progressive NJ, I will NEVER go to GA. It’s another state in America added to my list to NEVER go too…ever! My America has shrunk!

by: jimi

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:01:31 +0000

There is no Soviet Union anymore, but everybody remember those great victories and defeats. We trusted in idea and we made our history through great losses…
www.backinussr.com

by: Wallsy

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:41:07 +0000

Actually, realchesherkat, it is a democracy. A representative democracy.

by: Thalia

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:44:05 +0000

Oh, poor Georgia. But don’t feel too bad! Like MAJeff said, we in Massachusetts (the bluest of the blue, well, maybe except for Vermont) only just got rid of the no-liquor-on-Sunday prohibition. I KNEW there was something we blue- and red-staters had in common!

by: Scorpio

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:28:35 +0000

So you can do civil rights by referendum, but not government? Heh. Actually, with regard to Georgia in particular, it seems that civil wrongs are a more likely term.

Blue laws should be unconstitutional as an imposition of Christianity in any case. And the right of people to be treated equally should not be left to the whims of … the benighted.

by: realchesherkat

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:53:28 +0000

Yeah - people might get the crazy idea that they live in a democracy.

Sigh. They don’t live in a democracy. America is - thank the Disco Ball - not a democracy. Democracy is a horrible, terrible idea in which the majority passes laws and the minority gets screwed. Democracy is responsible for all these gay marriage bans. It’s bad enough we don’t have proportional representation, but I am so sick of hearing all these people go on about democracy like it was a good thing.

by: MAJeff

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:51:11 +0000

On the way home from the grocery store Sunday, after buying all the necessary football junkfood, I stopped at one of the three liquor stores available to me and bought a six-pack of Amstel Light. MA has it’s own stupid blue laws, but at least we got rid of a ban on sunday liquor sales.

by: PoliSi

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:45:54 +0000

MN has stupid liquor laws too. You can’t buy anything but 3.2 beer in a grocery store, liquor stores can’t be open on Sundays but you can buy the crappy grocery store beer or go out drinking and then drive yourself home…hmmm has anyone ever considered that this law perhaps increases state revenues through increased DUI/DWI tickets? It’s really the only reason I can think of to have a law that stupid.

by: missyann_thrope

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:14:46 +0000

*eyeroll* Yeah, I heard something about that. If this measure fails, I bet it’ll be because of lobbying pressure from businesses, not fundies.

I’m afraid that it might spin that way. The measure fails and the lobbying interests get what they want, the gov. and all the OTP legiscritters get to throw a bone to their bible-banging constituents, and the rest of us are still running into Kroger in our bedroom slippers at 11:55 Saturday night because we forgot to buy a six-pack.

by: Hurrycane

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:33:32 +0000

Actually you can’t sell liquor in grocery stores in GA.

Right. Only beer and wine. And only in “enlightened” counties. (I live near Atlanta, so I don’t usually have to deal with the “dry county” issue.)

I’ve heard that a not insignificant amount of pressure against this measure has actually come from liquor store owners…

*eyeroll* Yeah, I heard something about that. If this measure fails, I bet it’ll be because of lobbying pressure from businesses, not fundies.