Comer residents to vote on Sunday sales

Not sure of your point, but, in terms of drunk driving on Sunday, it would be better for "drunks" to buy their booze on Sunday and go home to drink it instead of going to Athens and buying by the drink and then driving home drunk.

This has been a hot topic for months. The voting will take place the same place you always vote. Or, have you never voted? It's too late for you to vote now if you are not registered. It is up to the electorate to go door to door with their get-out-the-vote efforts, usually to encourage voting one way or the other. This vote is the method for finding out how everyone feels about the issue. It is up to the citizen to stay informed and participate as they see fit. This issue has been in papers and on broadcasts all over the state for months.

Good point, but I guess they might find it convenient to buy on Sunday when they forget to plan ahead or if company drops by. There will be no more booze sold than before and no more taxes collected. The only difference is that people will more likely drink at home rather than go to Athens to get drunk by the drink and then drive back home.

I don't drink, never have, since I have never felt the need for altered consciousness. However, it is just plain silly to restrict one product catagory one day a week so a few people can make a statement about their moral beliefs. Why don't those same people want to restrict the sale of tobacco products or fireworks to only between the hours of 1pm and 3pm on Tuesdays? As for the choice of Sundays, there's nothing in the Bible that says alcohol should not be bought or consumed, much less on any particular day of the week.

There is nothing about selling alcohol on Sundays (or any other day of the week) that precludes anyone from setting aside any day they want to honor whoever or whatever they want. If Christians want Sundays, go ahead and claim it, but don't expect non-Christians to do so. Jews have chosen Saturdays; Muslims have chosen Fridays; I might chose Wednesdays to honor nature every week.

You and anybody else are not being forced to buy alcohol on Sundays or any other day. Christians are not being forced to buy alcohol on Sundays. So what is the problem with this for Christians?

Not selling booze on one day or even a full week won't stop anyone from being drunk at any particular time, like election day. This is just such idiotic thinking to try to defend this with reason. The only reason to restrict alcohol sales on Sunday is to allow Christians to make a statement about their preferred beliefs that actually have no basis in the Bible. So the whole issue is completely and totally twisted!

We would all be better off spending our time, effort and money working to help alcoholics (and all addicts) get sober and straight. They will always find ways, usually criminal (remember Prohibition?), to get what they desire so the best approach is to educate against addiction and help those in its gripe. Spouting religious scripture just doesn't do it nor does making moral statements by banning the sale of something on a set-aside day.