Dry counties?

[laktrash]

It's because of the churches and the reduced mental capacity of many people from small towns. Everyone goes to church there and the preacher tells people that alcohol is the cause of rapes, murders, kidnappings, looting etc... and everyone in the congregation should not allow it to be voted on and passed. ( I sat through many of those services growing up).

Yep but the bootleggers do a helluva business in these towns

[strickj]

It's because of the churches and the reduced mental capacity of many people from small towns. Everyone goes to church there and the preacher tells people that alcohol is the cause of rapes, murders, kidnappings, looting etc... and everyone in the congregation should not allow it to be voted on and passed. ( I sat through many of those services growing up).

Having a large amount of tourism coming in for the lake, it made sense to sell booze. But they wouldn't so people just brought their own and the locals drove 60 miles up the road and bought it. The county was loosing tens of millions of dollars annually in lost revenue because of it. When the few places went moist, just in the small towns near the lake, it brought in multiple new businesses and brought in enough income to buy a new city hall, new cops cars, extra cops, upgraded the entire city's water and sewer system etc.. After the other cities seen that the entire place wasn't going to burn down and kids weren't getting molested like the preacher said would happen, they finally got on board and sold so much beer on the first day at one store that they emptied out two entire semi-trailers in 4 hours (this was two weeks ago).

They were going broke because the lake is down about 50 feet or so because of the dam rebuild happening, and no one wants to come anymore. Hopefully this will bring enough of an infusion of cash to keep the place running so they don't have to raise taxes on everyone.

I know that the churches is why... but I'm curouis about the thought process behind it.

[Sam1]

I know that the churches is why... but I'm curouis about the thought process behind it.

For some strange reason they don't like to blame the people for making bad decisions, they prefer to blame the alcohol itself. That part I've never figured out either

[Dolomite`s Breezy]

Dont you know ?

Alcohol is the Debbil....lol

I think it goes way back to the Puritans also.. At least some of the choices they make as far as " corruptible" items go..

[Mike.357]

I know that the churches is why... but I'm curouis about the thought process behind it.

Even though my comment will stir up ####, the reason churches are against alcohol is it enables them to control the masses.

(yep pun intended )

[Chucktshoes]

I know that the churches is why... but I'm curouis about the thought process behind it.

It is all about imposing their morality on the world at large. It is a common affliction in this country. In fact, you can even see it all over our foreign policy. As a nation we suffer from a sever inability to mind our own damn business and leave other folks alone to mind theirs.