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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: GrayBeard on October 09, 2010, 11:51:46 pm
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Texas Beer Joint Sues Church
In Mt. Vernon, Texas, Drummond's Bar began construction on expansion of their building to increase their business.
In response, the local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from expanding with petitions and prayers.
Work progressed right up until the week before the grand reopening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground.
After the bar burning to the ground by a lightning strike the church folks were rather smug in their outlook, bragging about, the power of prayer, until the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church, "was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect actions or means."
In its reply to the court, the church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the building's demise.
The judge read through the plaintiff's complaint and the defendant's reply and at the opening hearing he commented,
"I don't know how I'm going to decide this, but it appears from the paperwork, that we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that now does not."
~~~GB~~~
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The Baptists still control things like bars and lotteries here in Texas. Many counties are still dry. The lottery passed by a very narrow margin. The proceeds were supposed to go to the education department. That is the only reason it passed.
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That is the big lie they told us here in Florida to get the lottery voted in. What the didn't tell you was how it really worked. It hasn't help our schools at all. :P
We still have five dry counties here (Lafayette, Liberty, Madison, Suwannee, and Washington) all of which are located in the northern part of the state. ::)
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I was a big lottery ticket buyer until I found out a huge chunk of it was going to educate PRISIONERS. I expected it to go to the public schools, not for every foolhardy "educational" folly down the pike. PSA's and birth control education, reeducation programs through state agencies etc... If it actually went to the public schools - where they led us to believe it was going - think of the things they could do. Like pay teachers what they are worth.