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A church in Georgia took a stand against retail giant, Walmart, over alcohol sales, and won.
The law in the city of Marietta, Georgia strictly prohibits the sale of alcohol in the vicinity of church buildings but Walmart ignored the law and built a store that sells alcohol near Pine Grove Baptist Church.
Walmart requested that the 63 year old church sign a waiver to allow the retail giant to sell beer and wine and the church turned down their request.
Pine Grove’s pastor Rev. Bobby Wood said,
“It’s like David and Goliath, I guess, but we’re fighting and we’re hoping we’re going to come out victorious over this.”
Walmart appealed the city ordinance citing customer complaints about not being able to buy beer and wine.
On Tuesday, Rev. Wood and Pine Grove Baptist Church went before the county commissioners to plead their case against Walmart and they won. The county commissioners upheld the ban in a 4-1 vote.
The Reverend said,
”There’s a lot of problems caused by alcohol, a lot of traffic accidents. There’s a reason for [ordinances], and I don’t think they ought to be circumvented to please a major corporation like Walmart.”
Its good to see that the city of Marietta, Georgia does not allow corporate giants like Walmart to bully their way into neighborhoods and then cause problems like the Reverend Wood mentioned.
Walmart has received a lot of criticism because when they have built stores in towns, they took customers away from small business owners and caused them to eventually go out of business.
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me112233
October 12, 2012 at 8:11 pm
Three cheers for Pine Grove Baptist Church. I applaud them for standing up for their beliefs, and the law, both at the same time.
While I tend to agree that zoning laws infringe upon the rights of individual property owners, if we are going to have land use restrictions (as virtually every community in the nation does), then the laws ought to enforced in a colorblind and moneyblind manner. So often, someone with deep pockets manages to buy his/her/its way aroudn the law. Walmart knew that the church was there when it decided to build the new store. Walmart also knew the zoning laws. As such, Walmart ought not be permitted to sell alcohol in the store — Walmart knew the rules when it picked the site for the store.
The Walmart in my town doesn’t sell any form of alcohol, and nobody seems upset about it. The store does a fantastic business.
Imhotep
October 11, 2012 at 9:23 am
Right on bro, These xtians need to have a grey goose and pineapple and shut the f**k up. There isn’t any prohibition in this country anymore. My question, does that wal-mart sell condoms, birth control pills, cigarettes( “stinkin weed” according to King George- he didn’t want to cultivate tobacco but the land-owners overruled his azz), or pork(Jews and Muslims) or white refined Sugar( biggest drug on the planet)? HHHmmmm…Hotep
Derrick
October 10, 2012 at 6:45 pm
These xtian people are a joke! They don’t want to be around liquor, but on the ‘first sunday’ they drink wine in rememberance of a diety called ‘jesus’.
After church over 90% of those xtian negroids and caucasoids are drinking, smoking, popping or toting on something!
Even the bible says’ DRINK AND BE MERRY!
Luke 12:19 reads, “Luke 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, DRINK, AND BE MERRY.”
New American Standard Bible
Ecclesiastes 8:15 reads; “So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to DRINK AND TO BE MERRY, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.”
Now, DRINK to that!