Funny News: Religious community opposes Jackson Brunch Bill

[MineralMan]

https://www.smokymountainnews.com/news/item/24429-religious-community-opposes-jackson-brunch-bill

If the two Jackson County commissioners considering a “yes” vote on Sunday morning alcohol sales were looking to the community to encourage that point of view, the crowd that turned out for a public hearing on the issue March 19 certainly didn’t deliver.

The commissioners’ boardroom was near capacity Monday night, with about 75 people sitting in the 105 available chairs, nearly all of them members of one of the area’s many Baptist churches opposed to alcohol consumption. In more than an hour of public comment, only one of the 24 speakers spoke in support of Sunday morning sales, a measure known as the Brunch Bill.

“When people say there’s no harm in passing this law, think about the folks who have lost someone to alcohol,” said Mark Stiles, pastor at Trout Creek Baptist Church, following an account of a church member who was killed by a drunk driver on his way home from church in 2016. “You’re putting more people on the road with alcohol in their body at an earlier time of the day. It’s time we as Christians stood and let our voice be heard.”

Like many of the night’s commenters, Stiles included a Bible verse from Proverbs in his comments, in his case Proverbs 20:1 — “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”

From Waynesville, NC

More chuckles at link...

[rurallib]

1. Wonder how they feel about letting everybody carry guns?

[MineralMan]

2. That there's just fine. Guns don't kill people. Alcohol do.

[trotsky]

10. Amazing how they can't follow their own logic. n/t

[gibraltar72]

3. Is that Junior Johnson?

[MineralMan]

5. Nope. A real guy in a real place.

[SoCalNative]

4. I think Waynesville

is gonna need a bigger basket.

[guillaumeb]

6. Who could be opposed to brunch?

[MineralMan]

7. Them folks there. That's who.

[Major Nikon]

8. Blue laws suck

If you need the force of law to enforce your doctrine, you just proved you pray to a false god.

[Permanut]

9. It's impossible to use the Bible to argue for a ban on alcohol..

Oppose the brunch bill if you wish, but there is nothing in the Bible prohibiting drinking. Drunkenness, yes, but not drinking. I'm guessing most of these people haven't read the Bible.