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Kentucky Church Group Wants Cigarette Taxes Raised

By Jesse | February 19, 2008 |

As a Christian myself groups like this really upset me. They don’t try and change people by instructing them how to live a life that is good in God’s eyes. They want morality legislated.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer:

A statewide religious organization is trying to generate support for a 70-cent increase in the Kentucky’s cigarette tax.

The Rev. Nancy Jo Kemper, executive director of the Lexington-based Kentucky Council of Churches, has emailed her members and asked them to contact legislators, including members of House Democratic leadership, about House Bill 443. The legislation calls for the state’s 30 cent a pack cigarette tax to be increased to $1.

Kemper says the increase would reduce smoking in a state that leads the nation in the percent of adults who smoke, 29 percent compared to 21 percent nationally, and help raise money to deal with health problems caused by smoking.

I took a moment to Google Rev. Kemper and founder her Blogger Profile.

She has been active as a lobbyist on behalf of Kentucky churches on such issues as tax reform, health care, gun control, public education and religion, church-state issues, gambling expansion, environmental protection, and capital punishment.

Is she a Lobbyist or Reverend? I really see this as an effort to force their view of morality on everyone.

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Tags: Kentucky, Taxes. Religion