House Considers Sunday Alcohol Sales
[March.15.2008]
WMAZ - Macon, GA
Devin Taylor rang up customers at a convenience store on College Street
in Macon. The store, like all others in Georgia, can't sell alcohol on
Sundays. But Taylor thinks they should be able to.
"They'll make
money instead of customers buying it illegally. Either way you go,
they're gonna drink it on Sunday. They buy it Saturday to drink it
Sunday or buy it from a bootleg, they're gonna drink it," Taylor said.
Voters
in Georgia could decide whether alcohol should be sold on Sundays at
grocery and convenience stores. Under a bill in the Georgia House of
Representatives, counties could hold referendums on the issue.
Some churches oppose the bill.
"I
would want to keep the sabbath, Sunday, holy," said Richard Jelley, the
associate pastor at First Evangelical Church Fulton Mill Road in Bibb
County. "And I think that just keeps us more in tune with God and his
work and his words when we take a day and set it aside for him."
Both Jelley and Devin Taylor like the idea of a referendum.
"I definitely think it's for the people to decide and I hope that we would decide not to sell it on Sundays," Jelley said.
Taylor said, "a lot of people are probably gonna vote against it, but, like I said, they're still gonna get it."
The
full house of representatives must vote on the bill before sending it
to the senate and then to the governor's office. Governor Sonny Perdue
has opposed alcohol sales on Sundays.
Georgia is one of
three states that doesn't allow stores to sell alcohol of any kind on
Sundays, according to the associated press.
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