Underage Drinking

[HartfordWhalers]

[quote name='Aluigi' date='Sep 29 2004, 06:37 PM'] well... perhaps i'm considering the fact that as of right now i am not so great of a driver, and it would distract me to concern myself with an exact mph rather than just follow the guideline as best i can. [/quote]
Then you shoulg go 5 or 10 miles under so you don't have to constantly check, not go over...

[toledo_jesus]

so as were saying about underage drinking

Drinking underage is against the law, hence a sin of disobedience. If your parents moderate your drinking in the home, I would not consider that a sin. And I don't mean, dad buys you and your buddies a case of beer, I mean you have a glass of wine or some hard cider or something. Or a sip of whiskey to clear up a cough.

[Socrates]

Better double-check that speedometer lest you burn in hell! (such scrupolosity!)

[quote]I would love to be able to go the speed of traffic and have wine with my family at dinner, but this is not possible because I these are both against the civil law, at least where I live[/quote]

Not going the speed of traffic is dangerous on roads with heavy traffic. Just try to be safe, don't speed if you don't have to, but just exercise common sense!

[Guest Aluigi]

here's a thought... what if your parents (who obviously have HIGHER authority over u than the civil authority) gave you drinks w/ dinner n stuff in a state where even that was illegal? i assume the higher parental authority supersedes the state & u can morally drink, right?

[HartfordWhalers]

[quote name='Aluigi' date='Sep 29 2004, 06:49 PM'] here's a thought... what if your parents (who obviously have HIGHER authority over u than the civil authority) gave you drinks w/ dinner n stuff in a state where even that was illegal? i assume the higher parental authority supersedes the state & u can morally drink, right? [/quote]
No, the parent does not have more authority than the State. The Church is over the State who is over the parents who are over you. The State has rights over the parents, and if your parents tell you to break the State's law, you cannot, just as you cannot break the Church's Law if the State tell you to break Her laws.

[Guest Aluigi]

phair enough.

[popestpiusx]

I'll have to get to answering objections later. Know that they are forthcoming.

[Craftygrl06]

[quote]ere's a thought... what if your parents (who obviously have HIGHER authority over u than the civil authority) gave you drinks w/ dinner n stuff in a state where even that was illegal? i assume the higher parental authority supersedes the state & u can morally drink, right?[/quote]


If it is illegal to drink underage with even with your parents there and your parents still give you alcohol even if it's used as a teaching method...for respect or whatever is being said then your parents are breakin gthe law and what is that teaching the kids..."it's ok to break the law" and i'm not sure that that classifies as somet hing that is morally wrong and therefore you can break that law....get me? basically i take issue with parents "teaching" their kids about alcohoil by letting them drink it. Drinking it when it is Jesus' blood is one thing but telling little Jimmy to have a beer with dinner so he learns to respect it is ridiculous in my opinion.


MORE RANTING my my i do like to rant today....sorry it's just that i know too many people whose parents use the whole "i'd rather they did it in front of me than behind my back" thing.

[Laudate_Dominum]

If I was in charge the age for buying alchohol would be 18 but there would be no restriction on drinking alchohol. Its a part of some people's culture and so they should be able to drink it even if they are 12 years old. I'm sure some people would disagree, but I don't mind because its not like what I think is going to change the laws anyway.

[drewmeister2]

Thank God I can't stand the taste of liquor, so Im sure I wont be America's next drunkard!

[HartfordWhalers]

[quote name='popestpiusx' date='Sep 30 2004, 10:23 AM'] I'll have to get to answering objections later. Know that they are forthcoming. [/quote]
Wonderful.

"If I was in charge the age for buying alchohol would be 18 but there would be no restriction on drinking alchohol."

If it were my choice, that would be ideal, too, considering people are responsible enough for that, which I don't know if it is or not in the US, but certainly that would be the ideal. Moreover, I still follow the law, though, because even though it contradicts my judgment, it is a sin of disobedience to break the law.