Posted on 07/14/2017 8:45:27 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
The lawsuit was filed Thursday in D.C. Superior Court on behalf of Coates and William Lamar, the senior pastor at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, DC.
"It is a matter of life and death in our communities," Lamar told CBS News.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012 research showed daily regular soda and fruit drink consumption was most common among black and Hispanic Americans.
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"Silence is violence." My new tag.
“I’d like to teach the world to sing, you racist whitey!”
Deep pockets. Did they think of including the NRA, since evidently black people are being forced to drink sugary sodas at gunpoint!
Callin’ Dr Jessie...callin’ Dr Jessie...
“Coke adds life...except in this community.”
I’d put them on notice and ask for Rule 11.
On the other hand, if they give in to the blackmail (or should that be BlackMan mail, I’ll file my own suit.
The reason for “sugary drink taxes” is vital.
Revenue is needed for the city governments and they have to find a scapegoat to justify the taxation.
The game is the same one played with cigarettes 20 years ago.
>According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012 research showed daily regular soda and fruit drink consumption was most common among black and Hispanic Americans.
That does not even rhyme with ESAD morons.
Any excuse for their evil will do I guess.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/americas-fattest-states-obesity-rates/
Here in CA we may have a $hit government, but we aren't fat. And it doesn't look too good for the areas of the country we count on to elect Republicans. Looking at the Deep South, it's evident they need to quit frying everything the put in their mouths. Yeah we can ridicule these Black Pastors for their lawsuit, but their Low IQ parishioners can't seem to figure out for themselves what's killing them.
Sounds like an attempt at a ‘shakedown’ of Coca-Cola.
Or 7-Eleven for inadequate securigy - because those pops jump off the shelf in the cooler, blow their lids off, and pour themselves down the ample pie-holes of them poor black people.
I remember him.
There’s a sad, sad scapegoat in this place....
Screw that!!!! Leave our food alone, dammit! !
The real problem is this... people eat, drink for comfort but they can’t truly find it. So they keep on overdoing it.
The real answer is this... whatever you eat or drink, do it to the glory of the Lord. This is a spiritually tangible factor, not a dull drill, when done as the Lord wants it. Less becomes more, because it isn’t being consumed with quite as much implicit gloom as before.
Don’t ban the overused or misused thing from the world. Ban the evil spirits from your soul that are occasioning the state of misery that brings the overuse or misuse.
That said, a good historical note is that classically in the world, skinny wasn’t viewed as the epitome of health and joy. Have you ever seen a skinny Buddha, to take an example outside of a Judeo-Christian context. There may be a fallacy of the excluded middle here. If you don’t look like Arnold Schwarzeneggar, so the meme goes, you ain’t anything good. You could get more years in your life, yet less life in your years.
Personal responsibility or Individual Responsibility is the idea that human beings choose, instigate, or otherwise cause their own actions.
A corollary idea is that because we cause our actions, we can be held morally accountable or legally liable. Personal responsibility can be contrasted to the idea that human actions are caused by conditions beyond the agent’s control.
Since the late 19th-century, personal responsibility has become increasingly associated with political conservatism and libertarianism.
More recently, personal responsibility has been associated with the reform of social welfare programs (e.g. in the Personal Responsibility and Welfare Reform Act of 1996).
The earliest known English use of the phrase is by Massachusetts Rep. Nathaniel Gorham at the U.S. Constitutional Convention on July 18, 1787.[1]
Keep in mind that these folks believed in a “stout” Judeo-Christian ethic as well. There was robustly affirmed to be an almighty entity of lovingkindness to which the response was due. That it was folly simply to live to our own approval, but that it was incumbent upon us to answer to a heaven that forgives all but excuses nothing.
We have become fish out of water.
silly pastors.
they should be educating their folks. we are to live in the world but not conform to it.
so many churches serve donuts etc, are these pastors gonna file about those?
people make their choices to buy or consume things.
Quite true and obvious, and so easily missed.
They need to be GOSPEL preachers.
The GOSPEL teaches how to use a thing without misusing it, because it teaches a person a loving perspective.
So much of black evangelicaldom has ceased to even be about the falsely caricatured “white Jesus.” (A pastor I knew often commented that the earthly Jesus, like the Hebrew people of his earthly days, was probably some swarthy, rough-hewn chap. We’ve superimposed a white-bread image on Him when that would probably be historically incorrect.)
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