By Dr. Mark Creech Christian Action League April 27, 2018 More and more states are now toasting new laws that allow for alcohol sales on Sundays. Indiana, Minnesota, and Tennessee are some of the latest. Even my own home state, North Carolina, amended its alcohol laws last year to allow for alcohol sales before noon […]
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Don’t Believe the Lie: Alcohol is NOT a Health Food.
By Daniel Amen Christian Action League April 19, 2018 While biblical scholars debate whether it is biblically OK to drink alcohol, there is a widespread perception that it is good to drink alcohol for health reasons. Drinking red wine in moderation, and more recently alcohol, in general, has been advanced as something that can improve one’s health. The […]
Some Tar Heel Leaders Want to Turn Alcohol Awareness into Alcohol Sales
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League April 13, 2018 As it has for the past three decades, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence is sponsoring Alcohol Awareness Month in April to increase public awareness and encourage communities to focus on alcoholism and related issues. But some North Carolina leaders seem to want to […]
Low Alcohol Drinks: Emerging From a Cloud of Tobacco Smoke
Alcohol Justice March 8, 2018 Big Alcohol would like you to know that it’s your friend. It does this in many ways. With advertisements featuring funny skits and catchy phrases. With philanthropic pushes that spend more on marketing than they earn for their recipients. And with grand language about reducing the harm of drinking, often […]
Experts Say Alcohol Tax Cuts Will Claim Lives
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League January 11, 2018 While the alcohol industry may still be celebrating its recent monumental legislative win — a $4.2 billion federal tax cut delivered in December — health and public policy experts are tallying what the move will cost the nation in medical and social costs and, profoundly worse, […]
Alcohol Industry Wins Big With Tax Reform Law
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League December 27, 2017 While President Trump touts his first legislative win, politicians disagree over whether the tax reform bill he signed Friday will most benefit big corporations or middle-class families. But one fact that no one is questioning is that the new law is delivering a huge financial gift […]
Pending Tax Reform in Congress Could Provide Alcohol Industry with Huge Christmas Gift
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League December 8, 2017 Although the jury is still out on which tax brackets will benefit most from pending tax reform, the nation’s alcohol industry is already raising a glass to celebrate significant tax cuts in a bill passed by the Senate Saturday and expected to remain in a conference […]
‘For Cancer Risk, It’s Best Not to Drink Alcohol’
By David R. Brumbelow Christian Action League December 6, 2017 A sobering Statement has been released by the American Society of Clinical Oncology on “Alcohol and Cancer.” Here are some excerpts from that article: “The importance of alcohol drinking as a contributing factor to the overall cancer burden is often underappreciated. In fact, alcohol drinking […]
Senate Poised to Take-up Tax Reform Next Week, Proposal Could Provide the Alcohol Industry with Ridiculously Low Taxes
Contact Senators Burr and Tillis to Oppose Tax Cuts on Alcohol By L.A. Williams Christian Action League November 21, 2017 With tax reform on the table in Congress, Americans sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner may be wondering if proposed laws would leave them more or less to give thanks over next year. Whatever the case […]
Churches Must Start Taking Alcohol More Seriously, Brews with Higher ABV Content and Sunday ABC Store Sales Likely if They Don’t
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League November 17, 2017 ABC stores open on Sunday? The sale of high-octane beer that’s more than 15 percent alcohol by volume (ABV)? Surely not in North Carolina. “Not yet,” says the Dr. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League. “But if our churches don’t start taking alcohol […]