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DEL.ICIO.USThe fight to keep a red state blue intensifies
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sadie Fields is turning out her conservative Christian troops against S.B. 26, the bill to permit grocery stores to sell beer and wine — in communities that elect to permit it.
In an e-mail sent out early this week, the chairman of the Georgia Christian Alliance asked followers to contact members of the Senate Committee on Regulated Industries, which now has the bill.
Fields also lists the sponsors of the measure, introduced last week by Seth Harp of Midland. Among those who have signed onto the bill, Fields pays particular attention to co-sponsor Don Thomas of Dalton, a Republican physician who last year, she notes, “led the legislation to add additional bans on smoking in public places.”
In the preamble of the ban introduced by Thomas, Fields notes, the intensified smoking ban was justified by the “offenses against public health and morals” that cigarettes and such present.
She also includes this link to a Christianity Today article, which says church-goers are more likely to drink heavily, and less likely to sit in pews, when blue laws are erased.
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By Rawena
January 17, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this
Poor poor old withered old Sadie Fields.
Sadie, please start acting like a Christian. Do good for others, Judge Not, Love thy neighbor. QUIT TRYING TO INFORCE YOUR MORALS ON ANYONE ELSE.
Do you actually read the Bible?
By wow
January 17, 2007 9:59 AM | Link to this
Good to see that Sadie has so little faith in the faith of her kind being able to resist the sale of alcohol.
By Otis
January 17, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this
I’m sick of people trying to tell me what to do and what to think, on both sides of the political aisle.
By Martin
January 17, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this
I thought one of the pillars of the Protestant movement was that you don’t need a monolithic institution like the Catholic Church (or the Baptist Church) to tell people how to go about worshipping God. This whole thing boils down to money. The Corporate Churches want to prevent any competition.
By David Sarosi
January 17, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this
Wow, so Christianity and its spokespersons are failures at influencing people to abide by what is termed “moral behavior” so laws must be passed to enforce it. Sounds a heck of a lot like Iran or any other theocracy on the planet - and here I thought this was America
Ms. Fields - has it not occurred to you yet that someone does not become a moral person by force of law? One becomes moral by embracing moral teaching and by freely making the choice of one action over another when given the choice. How weak is your faith? You know there are medical professionals that can help you past your insecurities about acceptance. You do not need to victimize the rest of us.
Well, for the rest of you. Since this paper won’t bother to publish the links, here is the link for the senate committee. I suggest that you write to all of the senators so they get the point about freedom.
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/senate/regindustries.htm
Here is the link to the house page. They do not have a functioning link to the committees yet but down on the right hand side is a posting of committee assignments - they have a regulated businesses committee as well.
http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2007_08/house/index.htm
Let’s mobilize and show this WEAK-WILLED BIBLE THUMPER that freedom and faith are stonger than totalitarianism and insecurity.
By Taylor F
January 17, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this
Very well said David.