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Southern Baptists protest Alabama wine trail

by Catherine Bodry (RSS feed) on Apr 9th 2008 at 9:40AM

Georgia has a wine trail. So do Florida and Tennessee. Now an Alabama trade association and a tourism group are joining the Southern ranks and adding a wine trail to Alabama's list of attractions. Eight wineries operate in northern Alabama, and one vintner boasts that he'd put his wines up against California's any day.

But a Baptist leader is protesting the idea of luring tourists with booze. The Rev. Robert Griffin, moderator of the Chilton Baptist Association and pastor of a Baptist church, maintains that his church is "on record as being opposed to any kind of alcohol-related industry."

This isn't the first alcohol incident the state has come against recently -- in October, the state opened a liquor store on a Sunday afternoon in Birmingham. The governor intervened, and the agency promised it would never happen again.

This time it looks like the heathen booze-lovers won: brochures will list the eight participating wineries in Alabama. Those who visit all eight will get a special wine glass with all the logos from the wineries on it.

Filed under: Food and Drink, North America, United States

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Paul D Apr 9th 2008 11:36AM

As an employee at a winery in northern GA, I say more power to them!

I'm a transplant from the Midwest and the influence of the tee-totallers is astounding...and ignorant.

kevjohn Apr 9th 2008 12:12PM

Can't the wineries say they just made water but then Jesus turned it into wine?

vickie Apr 13th 2008 6:16PM

For Gosh sakes, if you don't drink wine, that's ok, but stop being so narrow minded to those that do.

Leslie Apr 26th 2008 3:12PM

And this would be why the Founding Fathers enshrined the separation of church and state into the constitution. If the Alabama Baptist Association had their way, we'd still have prohibition, this website would be blocked, and those of us who choose to partake of the "demon liquior" would be locked up in prison.

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