Well it looks like we're still beating the Liquor-by-the-drink horse into a pile of fur. According to the Fannin Sentinel (probably the only newspaper around these parts that will print articles about the open and closed-door policies of your local government and officials) the State Ethics Committee is going to be hosting a hearing about the voting process dealing with the past Nov 6th vote. Seems as if some of the local churches "may" be in trouble because of funds funneled into the Vote No camp could perhaps have been a breach of the "separation of church and state" protocol. I believe that it’s really sad that it has come to this. I agree with one of our previous bloggers that the communities as a whole would have been better served if the churches had stayed out of the political arena and concentrated on feeding the hungry, clothing the hungry, and caring for the sick and poor. Now I'm afraid that with the state looking into these matters the powder keg will be lit and we'll all leave the table with a bitter taste in our mouth. Politics and religion do not mix. Churches do have the answer for most people but when they stray into the political arena then things get messy.
Mike Huckabee said it best when he said, "Government knows it does not have the answer, but it's arrogant and acts as though it does. Church does have the answer but will cowardly deny that it does and wonder when the world will be changed." Huckabee then said,
"I'm often asked why taxes are so high and government is so big. It's because the faith we have in local churches has become so small. If we'd been doing what we should have -- giving a dime from every dollar to help the widows, the orphans and the poor -- we now wouldn't be giving nearly 50 cents of every dollar to a government that's doing ... what we should have been doing all along."

I’m afraid that the church communities have been asleep-at-the-wheel. And when it does stir itself awake instead of maintaining the core tenants of its faith it tries to use the brute "police" force of the government to enact any change. It is sad, truly sad. So this is Christmas and what have you done? Another year over and a new one just begun.