Remember to do your shopping on Xmas Eve!
Of course, repeal didn't go into effect everywhere all at once. Many individual States and counties remained dry for years thereafter, and the vestiges of Prohibition remain with us to this day. For example, consider Oklahoma Statutes §37-537 (6)(C)(3) "...no such sales shall be made, or package store premises be allowed to remain open for the purpose of making such sales, on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day" (emphasis mine).
Long story short, Christian demands for special treatment have not only given them the only exclusively religious holiday widely recognized at all levels of government, but have also ensured that last-minute shoppers will be enjoined to sobriety upon that day, just as the Christian temperance movement would have them do.
Surely, this is a minor victory against the forces of secularism and equal treatment, but nonetheless, I must congratulate the Christian soldiers for once again gaining special rights, and in taking away the rights of those who might choose to ignore the wisdom of Proverbs 20:1.
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