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Maine Civil Liberties Union Defends Santa's Butt

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State Reverses Course On Beer With Santa Label

A Massachusetts beer importer has been granted permission to sell a beer in Maine with a label showing Santa Claus drinking a pint of brew.
The decision to let Shelton Brothers sell Santa's Butt Winter Porter, along with two other European beers, reverses a decision last fall to deny the company's application to sell the beers in Maine.

After the denial, the Maine Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of the company in federal court in Portland accusing the Maine Bureau of Liquor Enforcement of censorship.

While welcoming the decision, owner Daniel Shelton said it's too late to sell the seasonal Santa's Butt beer because the holiday season is over. He expects the other beers, a French ale and a Belgian fruit beer that show bare-breasted women on the labels, to soon be on Maine shelves.

He said the lawsuit will proceed unless the state changes its rule allowing it to deny appplications for beer labels because they
contain "undignified or improper" illustrations.
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