Posted on 09/23/2005 6:39:35 PM PDT by Cagey
WHITE HOUSE, Tenn. -- Play ball! As long as it's not Sunday morning.
Alderman Darrel Leftwich is proposing that the city establish new Sunday hours for White House Municipal Park so sporting events could only be held in the afternoon.
"I am concerned that we are not sending the right message to the community by having tournaments and league play during worship hours," Leftwich said.
Leftwich said that he drove by the park Sunday morning on his way to services at Temple Baptist Church and saw that it was full of people at a soccer tournament.
"God our Father intended the seventh day to be one of rest and worship," Leftwich said during this week's city board meeting. He asked the city manager to draft an ordinance that would restrict Sunday hours at parks in the town, about 20 miles north of Nashville.
Alderman Farris Bibb Jr. said the city should go slow before enacting a change. "With all due respect to Alderman Leftwich, the seventh day of the week is Saturday," Bibb said.
As a parent with kids that like to play organized sports, this is an issue that I've had to deal with recently, often and it's more than a little frustrating. Here's a thunbnail of the last scenario. Essentially, practices were called for Sunday mornings on my son's hockey team and if you missed x number of practices, you were off the team. Hence the dilemma. Do you skip church because the son wants to play hockey and would be bitterly disappointed if he didn't? Or do you disallow your son from playing a sport he dearly loves because you want him in church (and it's actually more than that because with young kids, it disrupts the whole family because somebody has to drive.) Why should parents who are trying to raise good and Godly children not be able to let their kids play organized sports as well?
strange, he hasn't responded to any posts calling out his ridiculous statement, but he has posted on other threads since then.
Maybe he feels appropriately foolish for saying something so completely wrong.
Once read that some otherwise liberal states still ban hunting on Sundays.
Go ahead, tough guy. Can't wait to see it.
Just what I thought. You ain't nothing but a sleazy punk troll.
He can't do this! :-)
"Soccer yes. Taliban No."
"*ding*ding*ding* We have a winner."
There's one instance...
And then there are the subsequent hysterics of overreacting to other posters.
But hey -- do yourself a favor. Brew yourself a cup o' chamomile tea, and use two tea bags. Ok, TOUGH GUY?
Wow. Coming from you..I take that as a compliment.Thanks.
Oh PLEASE. You call that "hysterics"??
Dude...get a frickin' grip.
You're quite welcome. :o)
Ha Ha!!!, Lets see this jerk shut down the NASCAR Race at Bristol...
It's only the largest sporting event in the TN.
It's only the largest sporting event in the TN.
Nothing like getting run over by 32,000 horsepower (and that's just the drivers :-)
You holding out good with Rita hitting NE Texas?
I'm good just a little cloudy and some wind gusts around here by Ft. Hood. We might get some rain and more wind when she gets further north but it will just be fringe stuff here unless she turns west.
Stocked up on canned foods and got plenty of H2O at work around the corner, fuel for camp stove if we lose power but also have big backup generators at work if need to use electric.
Got car coverter and the cell phone to hook to the LT so online won't be a problem.
And plenty of ammo and launchers too.
Good to hear. Sounds like you're fully-prepared.
Well 144 cans of food plus freezer-o-meat should last a while.
Kinda running low on cigars though, might have to make a run later today for those.
If it gets really bad I got enough spare tire to last for 2 weeks probly, I might think I'm starving but reserves are reserves;)
And 25 lbs of flour and sugar plus dry goods.
Speed has the Madison Hooters Pro Cup on right now.
Our own Taliban.
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