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July 19th, 2012

Are You Sure That Isn’t Demon Rum Talking?

So Towleroad posts the following…

Idaho Bar Refuses To Sell Pepsi, MillerCoors Over Gay Support

Citing their Christian faith, Mike and Mari Fuller, owners of the Waha Bar & Grill in Idaho, say they will no longer sell Pepsi or MillerCoors beer because of those companies’ ties to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

Others have pointed out the list of products they still sell that also support gay equality. But the first thing that struck my inner Baptist boy about this story was…er…wait…this is a bar for goodness sakes.

The home I grew up in had no car, and when I was very young we took the bus downtown to go shopping and then walked my little legs off.   I remember, and I am not kidding and not exaggerating, how my Baptist grandmother would point to the bars along our way and say “The devil lives there!”

Eventually I became a teenager and the instant some high school friends of mine gave me my first taste of illegal (for my age) rum and Coke I decided the devil might not be so bad after all.   I’m a middle-aged gay man now with a taste for sugary cordials and fine tequilas.   But I still count that distrust of the pleasures of drink as one of the pluses of the religious training I got way back when. It’s that little bird perched on my shoulder whenever I am miserable and depressed, telling me that there is no path to happiness in a bottle.   I’d Like A Drink is fine.   I Need A Drink is…ooooohhh…then you don’t get one Bruce Albert Garrett…

Unlike a reflexive distrust of sex and sexuality, a reflexive distrust of alcohol actually does have something to be said for it. Alcoholism, unlike homosexuality, really does cause health and social problems. And there is a pretty well known period in the history of this country of massive Christian opposition to the making and selling of alcohol on those grounds. So…listen…Mike, Mari…I appreciate your right to carry whatever products you choose, for whatever reason you want. But…seriously…I don’t think the Christian Women’s Temperance Union would approve of your line of work.   Don’t you know how destructive alcohol is to the family and society?

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