Sunday, October 30, 2005

Hurricane Relief Gone Bad

This story comes from NBC news - we'll let you decide if this is stupid or not! But you can can guess what we think - it's posted here.


CLEWISTON, FL — Hurricane victims who wanted water had some difficulty finding it at a relief station in Clewiston Friday. The volunteer group running a supply center doesn't like the company that donated the water, so they decided not to give it to those in line for help.

Twenty-two pallets of the canned water, distributed free by beer company Anheuser-Busch, bears the company's label – and members of the Southern Baptist Convention refused to hand it out to those in need.

Resident lined up for miles to receive food and water at the distribution point. But the water was left on the sidelines by the Alabama-based group.

"The pastor didn't want to hand out the Budweiser cans to people and that's his prerogative and I back him 100-percent," said SBC volunteer...

1 Comments:

Blogger David said...

Keith,
We did not suggest that Baptist volunteers withheld the basic needs of life from those impacted by recent Hurricanes. However, we did sugggest they did something that was absolutely STUPID.

And I'm baptist.

3:41 PM  

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