Sarah Palin: Pro-Drunk Driving.

[americanstranger]

Gov. Sarah Palin is already facing ethical questions over her firing of the Alaska public safety commissioner, and now she faces questions over the firing of a longtime local police chief.

After taking over as Mayor of the small town of Wasilla, Palin fired the longtime local police chief. The former police chief, Irl Stambaugh says he was fired because he stepped on the toes of Palin's campaign contributors, including bar owners and the National Rifle Association.

Stambaugh's lawyer, William Jermain, says the chief tried to move up the closing hours of local bars from 5 a.m. to two a.m. after a spurt of drunk driving accidents and arrests.

"His crackdown on that practice by the bars was not appreciated by her and that was one reason she terminated Irl," said Jermain.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5713866&page=1

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Isn't excessive drinking viewed as a sin by Religious fundamentalists?

I guess it depends on whether the sinners are donating to the campaign or not.

- as

[Critters2]

1. They used to be against fornication, too. But no more.

It's a brave new world!

[valerief]

2. It's a sin on ag.org

The General Council of the Assemblies of God has historically opposed the consumption of alcohol in any form. Early documents of the church declare, without reservation or compromise, a position of total abstinence.

In more recent years, however, this mark of separation from the world and this token of dedicated service to God has been questioned by some. Yet the continued effective work of reaching the lost and of challenging all believers to be always filled with the Holy Spirit is seriously jeopardized by a careless attitude concerning the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

For two reasons we urge all believers to avoid the Satanic tool of alcohol which destroys lives, damns souls, and blights society: (1) A studied review of the Scriptures affirms a stern warning against intoxicating drink and a call to separation from this evil for the purpose of better service to God and mankind; and (2) Current social abuses and the public outrage over the high cost of alcohol in terms of human misery, death, and destruction of property cry out with urgency for the church of Jesus Christ to oppose firmly any use whatsoever of a beverage which so insidiously afflicts and binds the bodies and minds of men and women.

[americanstranger]

3. Ooh! Good find!

Shouldn't they be like, kicking her out of the church or something?

- as

[ieoeja]

4. Which, again, increases her appeal to rural folk.

Those who have never lived there just do not appreciate how virulently hated MADD is within the rural community.

Unfortunately, they conveniently forget that MADD was largely a creation of their sainted Ronald Reagan (and the insurance companies).