[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

It was the Progressive Movement that got Prohibition passed.

It was a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, passed by 2/3 of both houses of Congress and ratified in short order by 3/4 of the states.

It was BOTH Progressives and the Religious Right that passed it. It was not the "legislating of morality". For the Right, it was the legislating of religious dogma. For the Progressives, it was the creation of federal police power.

For the New Deal, a constitutional amendment was no longer necessary. Everything from wheat to marijuana could be controlled simply by corrupting the Interstate Commerce Clause. Once again both got something they wanted. The Religious Right got to ban opium and other intoxicants except alcohol and Progressives got to regulate everything else.

Antonin Scalia, darling of the Right, is in line with Progressives on the corrupt Commerce Clause because it is the only support for his treasured War on Drugs. It is also the only support for much of the rest of the regulatory bureacracy. In fact, Clarence Thomas is the only reliable vote on the Supreme Court for the original meaning of Interstate Commerce in the Constitution. The rest are Religious Right enforcing church dogma or Progressives moving us to socialism. Both work together as STATISTS for their respective agendas.

[GeronL]

Oh I get it, another pothead trying to pass himself off as a ‘conservative’.

Liberaltarians; free sex with anything that moves and drugs.

[Absolutely Nobama]

You forgot to bash Antonin Scalia for not believing the states have a right secede, Paulbot.

[ProgressingAmerica]

It was BOTH Progressives and the Religious Right that passed it.

As I demonstrated using their own words, pointing to the page numbers even, Prohibition comes from the religious left and statist progressives.

The 'religious right' as it has come to be known didn't even exist until the 60's.

But if you can demonstrate how the 'religious right' gave us prohibition, please do so.