EDITORIAL: The Hoosier way: Don't change too much or fast

No more need for locked doors and beer caves at liquor stores or chains blocking beer and wine aisles in your local drug store or grocery store. Hoosiers who are 21 years or older now have the right to buy carry-out alcohol on the same day most Hoosiers also go to church. From noon until 8 p.m.

It’s certainly not the most important state law to ever pass the General Assembly, even though the governor’s office treated it as something close by live-streaming the signing ceremony on Facebook. The governor was surrounded by leaders of the Legislature to mark the occasion.

Crucially important or not, with his signature Holcomb did change a law that’s been on the books since the state was founded in 1816 and caused non-Hoosiers who are accustomed to being able to buy a six-pack on Sundays to wonder what people at the Statehouse have been drinking all these years.

Still in place in our state is a law that allows only liquor stores to sell cold beer. No other state in the nation considers temperature when deciding who can sell beer. We Hoosiers are all alone on that peculiarity.

And in case you didn’t know, Indiana is still one of only 14 states in which you can’t buy a car on Sunday.

Baby steps, people. We wouldn’t want too much change too fast.