Once. Just once I would like to read in this paper that the Asheboro City Council has voted and approved (or disapproved) an issue based on its merits and value to the citizens of our city.

Every vote of any consequence is considered in light of what other towns have done or are doing. Our state had to have the lottery because surrounding states have it. Asheboro had to have alcohol because Randleman has it.

Now the question is should alcohol be served before noon on Sunday? Randleman does, so we have to consider it.

To Mr. Eddie Burks and any other right-thinking member of the council, you might as well go ahead and approve it. Any resident, or visitor to Asheboro, who would decide to sit down in any establishment and consume alcohol before noon on Sunday (or for that matter at any other time) has already decided against Christ and Him crucified. They have no interest in assembling with any religious group.

Put it to a vote of the people.

“Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat” (Matthew 7:13).

In this day and time any vice will most often be approved by the vote of the people.

Finally, Samuel had gotten old. So the people said to him, “Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations” (I Samuel 8:5). God said, “Do what the people tell you. They have not rejected you. They have rejected me” (I Samuel 8: 7).

How did that work out for them?

Bob McCormick

Asheboro