In celebration of the birth (observed) of the guy who transmogrified water into wine (allegedly) no wine is allowed. I guess in some manner that's fair, any true follower should be able to accomplish the same feat.

Pfft, so? Religious-based morality laws are the ultimate American freedom, you commie drunk!

Can't buy alcohol in stores/restaurants on election days in Georgia until after the polls close.

that's probably not related to any kind of moral or religious belief, but actually a form of election security

Cooping was a form of electoral fraud in the United States by which gangs kidnapped citizens off the street and forced them to vote, often repeatedly, for an election candidate.... so-called "cooping gangs" or "election gangs" working for a political candidate would hold random victims in a chamber or cellar (the "coop") and ply them with alcohol or beat them to get them to comply.

It makes sense. Christmas is a weed holiday.

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The non-secret and repetition-loopholed voting sounds like the crux of the issue, not being able to buy alcohol

Ha...lal bro?

At least the liquor store employees get the day guaranteed off

In KS there are quite a few partially dry counties (no liquor stores, sales only allowed with food). And I think there is one fully dry county, which only allows for the sale of 3.2% beer.

They had the longest prohibition of all states and never fully ratified the 21st Amendment (ending prohibition).

I lived in KS and then in MO. It was really weird seeing hard liquor sold in Walmarts and grocery stores at first.

The Land of the free sure has a lot of arbitrary restrictions

When I lived in Houston, TX, USA, we used to open the neighborhood bar early, BBQ outside, and have a potluck on Thanksgiving and Christmas. A lot of us had little or no family or were otherwise unable to see what we did have. I can't remember if Texas does (or did) forbid sales.

You've obviously never spent the day drinking Irish coffee and watching braveheart.

I dont think it's a bad thing. A lot of people suffer around the holidays, and drunks will get drunk. If they can't do a packie run on the holiday, It can reduce overdoses. Harm reduction if you will.

My state is the only state in New England I believe, who doesnt sell alcohol in gas stations, or on sundays. You also cant get wine in the grocery stores. I remember the first time I went to a Maine walmart, and I was blown away therevwas wine on the shelf. Walmart wine, tf lol. So Im used to the rules, but I do believe the holiday rule actually to be beneficial. The rest are wierd, and if you live close enough go a border state, people who want booze (on a sunday) just cross state lines for it. But sad drunk darrel cant go grab another bottle on the saddest day of the year for him, because it's closed.

It's my god given right to buy (full strength) liquor, ice cold beer, hot rotisserie chicken, and .22LR at the same store at 3:00 AM

That's nkt very Merry of them

Its because of all the Christmas suicides.

But yes I agree with you. Lot to control in "freedom land"

The reason drunkenness was so prevalent back then is because brewing alcohol was the easiest and most accessible way to turn water into something that wouldn't kill you

It's pretty obvious you've never been an addict. Seems like you have probably never known or even talked to one either.

It doesn't reduce harm. It makes addicts purchae more to make sure they have "enough". Then, when the stores are closed and they still have SO MUCH BOOZE they try to drink it all because, hey, it's a special occasion. On the next event, they'll buy the new, greater quantity, because that's how much they needed last time.

For the real addicts, the ones who can't sleep a whole night without waking up to hit some shots, a whole day without booze can be deadly.

These laws are made exclusively by religious nut jobs that want to legislate morality, villify conduct they don't agree with, and control the behavior of people they don't like.

I'd kill myself if I had to survive Christmas sober.

What New England state doesn’t sell alcohol on sundays?

Pshh, bunch of idiots. They should ban suicide on Christmas.

CT

wild, I come from addicts. Like, youre right, Im not addicted to alcohol or drugs. But that is because Ive watched my entire bloodline struggle with addiction.

I have sat side seat to an alcoholic triggered from wine at thanksgiving dinner who tried to buy alcohol after we left, and couldnt. Kept him sober that day.

Harm reduction. Full of fire in this comment, I dont like religous nut jobs either.

I can tell you horror stories about alcohol. Ive seen my step family, a group of 40something year old siblings, throw a man going to prision for so many dui's they threw him a kegger before he left. I come from straight up white trash. My bio father just passed away last feburary from drinking himself dead, like

My step father would get so drunk he'd just beat us for no reason.
Drunks still gonna drink, yes, but christ to say it again, its harm reduction. Because if they run out on the sad holiday, they cannot get more that day. Theyre not DRIVING to get more either. Most severe alcoholics are suicidal, and will try to kill themselves with the bottle around holidays.

note, CT is a little different than KY or such. These laws are old, and like the sunday thing, are more from the package store lobbiests than the relgious people.

kind of good for really lonely people on christmas, who might be tempted to drink their sorrows away?

They are adults, and they should be able to do that if they want.

A lot of people (very much including me) forget that not long ago, there was no electricity for easy refrigeration. I’m middle-age, but that’s such a crazy concept for me. How do you take a boat journey for weeks, months(?!?!) and survive? Everything would go bad in the ocean heat and blasting sun so quickly! Insanity.

I think a more appropriate movie for the holiday would be Die Hard. Or The Exorcist.

Exorcist would be perfect. This was my grandma's Christmas tradition. I don't much care for Braveheart.

Well that's dumb.

Plus, that Christ guy was really into wine. Go to a church and they'll offer you a sip of wine and tell you it's his blood. That's a BAC of what, 11-12%?

Yeah let's make the small subset of addicts who don't have an extra bottle do benzoes from a dealer instead!!

Yeah because its impossible for them to buy alcohol the previous day!

When they impose white christian nationalism on everyone, they are not seen as restrictions but devotions. What kind of heretic are you anyway? /s

Puritans still trying to stop us from having a merry Christmas!

Fr though, I've never bothered trying to go to a store on Christmas I just assume most are closed

TIL boiling water was harder than fermenting spoiled fruits

These ate the last gasps of these, though. There's small resurgences but for the most part these are steadily going away.

Godfather

Obviously they'd bring twinkies and canned food

We just shut down literally everything here so not being able to buy alcohol is just another thing your not able to buy along all the everything else.

The "Land of the free" has jaywalking laws... They literally aren't even allowed to cross the street without permission from the state

Jesus must've been so wasted all the time.

As Douglass recalled, the temporary respite from hard labor allowed slaves to tolerate their condition. Masters also used the holiday more directly, encouraging slaves to binge drink hard liquor: “One plan is, to make bets on their slaves, as to who can drink the most whiskey without getting drunk; and in this way they succeed in getting whole multitudes to drink to excess.” Binge drinking not only asserted the dominance of the slave owner, but according to Douglass, it also made working in the fields more attractive: “We felt, and very properly too, that we had almost as well be slaves to man as to rum. So, when the holidays ended, we staggered up from the filth of our wallowing, took a long breath, and marched to the field,–feeling, on the whole, rather glad to go.”

https://werehistory.org/christmas-on-plantation/

Jesus was way cool

Don't a lot of them do that on Sundays as well?