Because the people pushing this are all godless liberals, and by extension, also egalitarian postmodernist. Then there’s the Freepers who think it makes them theoretical purists. They ignore and wish away the devastating affect this will have on our culture. Which is the reason men, in a better time, in a better America, banned it.
Because the people pushing this are all godless liberals, and by extension, also egalitarian postmodernist.
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Godless liberals, yup, get that.
Egaltarian post-modernist. Wow.
I graduated with Honors in Philosophy in 1980 and I never, not once, put together such an awesome and completely meaningless construction.
Everything is equal and I am skeptical of all of it.
Nope, that really tells me nothing about anyone.
When was it banned, and who lead the movement?
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.
You are so misinformed, you are not worth arguing with.