[Magdalen] Heather Cook

[Georgia DuBose]

Thank you, Renee. My friend Marie Winkler, an addictions counselor, says
that the most fatal addiction problem in our society is alcohol. And we
boost it all the time. A priest friend unfriended me for saying that a wine
meme sustains addictive behaviors. It does, by indicating that if some is
good, more is excellent. Bingo.

Georgia+
party pooper

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 8:26 AM, flyingfish224--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
> I find it fascinating that we are so concerned about the "Justice"
> delivered in the Heather Cook matter.
>
> The bigger question, IMNSHO, is what are we doing to change the culture
> where we laugh, with a wink and a tickle, at being known as "Whiskypalians"?
>
> At our wine and cheese fundraisers, at our scotch tastings as an after
> dinner activity at a parish retreat (my parish), at excuses to use
> champagne for sacramental wine, at the sacred sherry after the 11:00 Sunday
> service.
>
> Yes, I am in recovery.  Yes, I am a party poop.  But addiction, and
> specifically alcoholism, is killing our brothers and sisters.  We cannot
> keep silent
>
> Renee
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