Whats so funny is that those who use the Bible as a reference as to why people shouldn't drink do not even know what they are talking about. I can show where it says in the BIBLE to 'give wine to those who are low is spirit and hard liquor to those who are dying so that they make drink and forget their cares' paraphrased there but the same meaning..Did Jesus also not make wine for the wedding in Cana out of water?..I can also show where it says that it is not what goes into a man that defiles him, but what comes out of him' that defiles him...Not paraphrased there.
I can also show where it says that you are not supposed to get drunk but that it is okay to have drinks...So when someone uses the BIBLE as a reference I ignore what they say because they don't say what it really says concerning alcohol..or smoking...or much of anything else. So please before you decide to speak and bring the bible into any argument read the bible first. I am a Baptist and a Marine Veteran of this great country.

I do agree it would bring in a lot of revenue and help create much needed jobs in the area...and keep a lot of people of the roads while drinking...Would be a great deal safer and cheaper to be able to go to the corner store and pick up a bottle of Jack or Crown Royal and take it straight home than to go to the bar, spend a great more money & then drive home after drinking, wouldn't you say?

I might be young but I understand the difference between right and wrong....and alcohol is wrong! It benifits in no from or fashion it only destroies homes and lives. I have a close relative that drinks and i would rather him do it at a bar and not at home where im exposed to such sinful substances. People say that by making alcohol more available people will be less likely to abuse it...FALSE! This simply means innocent people will be exposed to it. If none of this has changed your mind then just picture a young girl curled up in the corner crying because her father has become "a stay at home drunk" instead of drinking at a bar where there are other adults to control the situation. More alcohol means more drinking, more drinking means more violence, more violence means more law inforcement, which means higher taxes. So you see there really is no need for this disaggrement.

Also Nancy, a lot of people who move to Tyler did not know it was dry until they moved there. If it was that important of an issue to them then I am sure they would have checked it out first. I wish when I moved there and lived there for the 6 years I was there that I would have known that. If I had been old enough to know, care, or understand the load of crap reasons why it is a dry county, I would have never moved there. It is time for your old fogeys to stop trying to control what other people do for the sake of your own morals, well being and safety because statistics show being wet is more financially and physically safer than being dry. People move to Tyler because they like the people, and how clean Tyler is and how welcoming its atmosphere is. It isn't until they learn that it is a dry county, and how selfish people are about trying to stop people from drinking that they realize that Tyler is not a fun place to live. Don't you want people to move to your city and enjoy living there? And for Ken Good, this election and decision has nothing to do with economic downturn, wet and dry elections happen all the time throughout our state every year, and many more pass than fail, it has to do with making changes to our community, and allowing people make the decision on what they want. I live in a wet county and people drink less here than they do in Tyler because that "thrill of the chase" and wanting to get drunk more often forces people out on to dangerous highways and does not afford them the right to just get what they want close to home and take it home to drink. It is just alcohol, not something terrible like drugs.

As a Christian, I believe there is one judge and I am not Him. Therefore, let people live their own lives whether you agree with them or not. I GAURANTEE most of these so called religious people who want us to vote "no", have booze in their home. Quit being hypocrits! Guns don't kill people, people do. Liquior doesn't kill people, people have to drink it. It is a personal choice. Stay out of it!

Vote No To Alcohol

I am thankful for the privilege to have been able to work with the “Keep Precinct 4 Dry committee” in the upcoming liquor election. There has never been such a diverse group of people in Smith County work so hard together to protect our values. We have many different religious groups working for a common cause, the defeat of all propositions to bring the sale of Alcohol to our area.

Our purpose is not to impose our values on anyone else but to vote our convictions.

Religious groups have 2 missions. Our fist mission is to worship and praise God in the manner that each of us believes to be correct and appropriate. Our second mission is to serve. This is where we are in total agreement. In service, we all deal with helping people that are hurting and grieving from all of the problems that life deals them. The great majority of these issues are connected to Alcohol and substance abuse. Issues such as killings because of drunk drivers; spousal, sexual, and child abuse; liver disease; financial; and many other issues. We help bury the dead, counsel, pray for, hug, and help financially for groceries and necessities, and anything that we can do for those that their lives have been ruined in one way or another because of alcohol.

We simply do not want to make it easier to supply alcohol to those who will use it to destroy themselves and others.

Darrell Watson