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To: demshateGod
They ignore and wish away the devastating affect this will have on our culture.

Prohibitionists, and their arguments, never change.


Although the temperance movement claimed Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745/46-1813) as one of its primary inspirations, he actually promoted moderation rather than prohibition. The temperance movement often had difficulty getting facts right.

Early temperance writers often insisted that because of their high blood alcohol content, "habitual drunkards" could spontaneously combust and burn to death from inside.

A temperance publication wrote of drinking parents who gave birth to small children with a "yen for alcohol so strong that the mere sight of a bottle shaped like a whiskey flask brought them whining for a nip."

One temperance "scientific authority" implied that inhaling alcohol vapors might lead to defective offspring for at least three generations.

Because the temperance movement taught that alcohol was a poison, it insisted that school books never mention the contradictory fact that alcohol was commonly prescribed by physicians for medicinal and health purposes.

Temperance Leader Lucius Manlius Sargent tried to get secondary schools, colleges and universities to eleminate all references to alcoholic beverages in ancient Greek and Latin texts.

Because the temperance movement taught that drinking alcohol was sinful, it was forced to confront the contrary fact that Jesus drank wine. Its solution was to insist that Jesus drank grape juice rather than wine.

During Prohibition, temperance activists hired a scholar to rewrite the Bible by removing all references to alcohol beverage.

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) strongly supported Prohibition and its strict enforcement.

The Bible says to "use a little wine for thy stomach's sake" (1 Timothy 5:23). This admonition caused serioius problems for temperance writers, who argued that alcohol was a poison and that drinking it was a sin. So they insisted that the Bible was actually advising people to rub alcohol on their abdomens.

Prohibitionists often advocated strong measures against those who did not comply with Prohibition (1920-1933). One suggested that the government distribute poisoned alcohol beverages through bootleggers (sellers of illegal alcohol) and acknowledged that several hundred thousand Americans would die as a result, but thought the cost well worth the enforcement of Prohibition. Others suggested that those who drank should be:

A major prohibitionist group, the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) taught as "scientific fact" that the majority of beer drinkers die from dropsie.

The WCTU suggested that school teachers put half of a calf's brain in an empty jar into which alcohol should be poured. As the color of the brain turned from pink to gray, pupils were to be warned that a drink of alcohol would do the same to their brains. executed, as well as their progeny to the fourth generation.

115 posted on 03/26/2014 1:48:44 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Government should be afraid of the people)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

America is becoming an unlivable cesspool. You really think this is going to help? Why put so much energy into this?

It’s a good thing FDR, that constitutional champion, ended prohibition because our country has been getting better ever since. Today, we have great orginalists like Barney Frank fighting for a better America through pot legalization. Obama, the constitutional scholar, has told the DOJ to ignore the law when it comes to pot. The dope smoking, knockout game “teens” will cease stop attacking random white people when their drugs become legal. People are returning to God’s word in droves, applying His command to use all seed bearing plants and herbs. It’s a constitutional, cultural, and religious revival.


119 posted on 03/26/2014 2:09:47 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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