Why is itbthat when driving thru the bible belt there are so many bilboards for strip xxx shops that say semi parking?. How socalled men of the cloth do you think hide from their wives in those places then get up on sunday and preach how you will be dammed to hell if you go to a strip club?
When I have driven on I-75 on the way to Florida - I'm thinking in eastern Tennessee, there is a huge XXX bookstore that must border church property. There are several huge billboards promising you will burn in hell and be condemned to eternal damnation if you visit the store. Lol.
When I moved to Atlanta for Southern California back in 1987, I suffered a BIG cultural shock. Things have gotten better since then but there still are too many "Sunday laws", etc. And I still haven't learned to say Y'all. :)
I have lived in TX, TN and GA in the "Bible Belt" and CA, IL, and NJ supposedly far from Bible thumping territory. My experience has been that the "Bible" states were friendlier and more accepting that the supposedly more liberal north or the left coast. The left leaning, progressive, so called "liberal" states were anything but!
In New Jersey, people want and get a new law for every situation encountered then complain the law doesn't cover enough and demand more controls. In Illinois, the laws don't apply to politicians but everyone else gets slammed. Enforcement is haphazard and seemingly governed by political campaign slogans. And California is something like Lenin and Marx got drunk with Gengis Kahn and Stalin and farted a symphony of rules.
tumblingdice, I lived between Cranbury and Princeton. Worked on US 1 in South Brunswick (in one of those "business campuses"). And mostly I saw that the only thing that "got done" was more loans by the toll authorities so they could stay in business and pay for the private helos and limos for the authority board members.
I agree with Dallas. I see lots of strip clubs in South Carolina and no mention of them in church.
I even remember reading an editorial in the local paper that made fun of Sunday alcohol blue laws. It said many Catholics go to church on Saturday but there are no alcohol restrictions for Saturday consumption. What makes Sunday so special? The laws are so archaic, only a fool would think that people who want to drink and know about the law, would not have already stocked up on beer so that they can drink all they want on Sunday. However if they want to go buy more at the grocery store, they have to wait until Monday when most people go back to work.
13 comments
Latest
In New Jersey, people want and get a new law for every situation encountered then complain the law doesn't cover enough and demand more controls. In Illinois, the laws don't apply to politicians but everyone else gets slammed. Enforcement is haphazard and seemingly governed by political campaign slogans. And California is something like Lenin and Marx got drunk with Gengis Kahn and Stalin and farted a symphony of rules.
I even remember reading an editorial in the local paper that made fun of Sunday alcohol blue laws. It said many Catholics go to church on Saturday but there are no alcohol restrictions for Saturday consumption. What makes Sunday so special? The laws are so archaic, only a fool would think that people who want to drink and know about the law, would not have already stocked up on beer so that they can drink all they want on Sunday. However if they want to go buy more at the grocery store, they have to wait until Monday when most people go back to work.