We've got trouble right here in River City! They're trying to open a Hooters restaurant in our fair town!

Rally all the good citizens to keep out the demon chicken wing — for the good of us all for the good of the community — for the good of our youth!

Now isn't this ridiculous? The effort by a set of priggish Fayetteville residents to keep a Hooters restaurant from opening in our fair town is more than a little foolish — it's downright comical!

It's as if Fayetteville were going to become the Sodom and Gomorrah of south Georgia if we were to let a place famous for its chicken wings and hamburgers open a place here. All this talk of Hooters serving “lust for lunch” is nonsense; anyone who has ever eaten at a Hooters know that is not true.

And can't you find just as much lust at, say, a church barbeque, if you are looking for that sort of thing, as you can find at your local Hooters? (Dear Southern Baptists, be aware: there is lust all around us! I've even encountered lust at the library — should we then ban reading or the library?)

Hooters should be allowed to open a restaurant in Fayetteville if they want to. I assure you good God-fearing Baptists that if Hooters opens a restaurant here in Fayetteville and I go into this den of iniquity I shall strive mightily not to feel lust in my heart — and if I do I know the Lord will forgive for lusting after a spicy chicken wing!

So lighten up, residents of Fayetteville; don't let our fair town become the laughingstock of — if not the city of Atlanta — then most of the rest of the country. Show a little sense of humor and let Hooters open a place down here. A Hooters restaurant will not hurt anyone and may just help a few too uptight citizens learn to relax and enjoy life a little.

There's no reason in the world not to allow Hooters in Fayetteville, save for the fact that few people want to keep all the rest of us from having a good time.

Dennis Sams

Fairburn (Fayette)

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