Church and police to end binge drinking
source: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/11/20/church-and-police-join-forces-to-end...
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In a letter to today’s Western Mail, the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, and Barbara Wilding, chair of the Wales Association of Chief Police Officers call upon drinkers to sign up to an online pledge vowing to cut back.
They will also be giving those who do cards to remind them of their promise and give them “support against peer pressure”.
Although this is said to be the first time that the church and police have joined together in order to tackle social problems, it is questionable whether an online pledge will have much of a hold over people who fancy that extra drink on a friday night.
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armchaircritic
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"Church and police to end binge drinking"
lmao ...
- 3 years ago
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armchaircritic
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Jayface89
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The Church.
The Police.
2 oppresive(mostly)forces that people like to rebel against.
Trying to stop binge drinking.
That makes me want to get drunk til I pass out. - 3 years ago
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Jayface89
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ClareW
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that is not a good idea, the Church should not be involved in policing things or the legality of things. Binge drinking is awful, obviously, but it should be dealt with differently.
- 3 years ago
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ClareW
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street_smart
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pfft...."support against peer pressure"; 'so by signing up for anti binge drinking online, and we catch you in a bar drinking, we will send you 10,000 reminders of the pledge you signed to make you feel -gasp- guily, and pressured' sounds funny to me....if people are of age, and being careful about it, this is like signing up for an online AA group.....and the fact of police and church coming together, is just..discouraging as well, in my view.
- 3 years ago
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street_smart
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abbym0308
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I don't really see a problem with the two coming together on social issues, so long as it's healthy support encouragement to fix social problems and doesn't turn in to an exercise in converting people to the church.
- 3 years ago
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abbym0308
