Unintended Consequences

The rule was supposed to keep beer joints away from churches... but now churches can't use some locations because of their proximity to beer sellers:

“Land just wasn’t available,” Arnold said. “To find 6 or 7 acres of land that you could build on that was affordable was very difficult, but there were plenty of lease spaces … the problem we were running into were landlords being apprehensive about leasing to a church because of the beer permit laws.”

Knoxville, TN beer vote splits religious community https://t.co/4hiO1QgyJL via @knoxnews

— Holston Conference (@TheCall_Holston) November 21, 2016