Here's a sobering idea: Bring back Prohibition

[SparkyOSU]

We must examine the past to gain understanding of the possible future.
Who was responsible for the first Prohibition?
Look it up.

Fucking Dems!!!!!

 

[Zurp]

"Prohibition??? They tried that in the movies and it didn't work!"

Homer will figure out a way to help us out!

Greenies to the first to post a picture in this thread of Homer being the Beer Baron. (I couldn't find one.)

Edit: Nevermind

 

[Taosman]

from the NAE site...........
The time has come for the National Association of Evangelicals to speak and act again in the following ways:
1. Strongly encourage those national organizations which are against alcohol use and abuse, and to join them in condemning the media message that equates alcohol with the good life for adults and which communicates to youth the message: ?You can't have fun without alcohol."
2. Urge NAE churches to make alcohol education and ministry to alcohol victims a priority.
3. Request the media and the corporate community to join in sponsoring informative programs on the down side" of alcohol use.
4. Request public figures, such as athletes and entertainers, to avoid endorsing alcohol use.
5. Promote congressional legislation that would:
a) Label alcohol as a dangerous drug which can result in personal and social harm;
b) Ban advertising of alcohol on television.
6. Urge corporate advertisers not to jointly sponsor television programs, such as the Olympics and other athletic events, with the alcohol industry.
National Association of Evangelicals

 

[Flocka]

from the NAE site...........
The time has come for the National Association of Evangelicals to speak and act again in the following ways:
1. Strongly encourage those national organizations which are against alcohol use and abuse, and to join them in condemning the media message that equates alcohol with the good life for adults and which communicates to youth the message: ?You can't have fun without alcohol."
2. Urge NAE churches to make alcohol education and ministry to alcohol victims a priority.
3. Request the media and the corporate community to join in sponsoring informative programs on the down side" of alcohol use.
4. Request public figures, such as athletes and entertainers, to avoid endorsing alcohol use.
5. Promote congressional legislation that would:
a) Label alcohol as a dangerous drug which can result in personal and social harm;
b) Ban advertising of alcohol on television.
6. Urge corporate advertisers not to jointly sponsor television programs, such as the Olympics and other athletic events, with the alcohol industry.
National Association of Evangelicals

I'm surprised you found that so easily. I mean, I'm sure it was hidden. Great find, Taos!!!!!

 

[BayBuck]

Greenies to the first to post a picture in this thread of Homer being the Beer Baron. (I couldn't find one.)

Edit: Nevermind

Actually, Homer really wasn't the Beer Baron anymore at that point, but he was when wearing this hat:

 

[Zurp]

Actually, Homer really wasn't the Beer Baron anymore at that point, but he was when wearing this hat:

You're right that he wasn't the Beer Baron anymore. (That's the picture from his famous toast to alcohol. I figured it was at least the right episode.) Fix the red X and you get the greenies.

 

[Saw31]

You're right that he wasn't the Beer Baron anymore. (That's the picture from his famous toast to alcohol. I figured it was at least the right episode.) Fix the red X and you get the greenies.

 

[Zurp]

"Look at me, Rex Banner. I've got a new hat!"

 

[Mike80]

We must examine the past to gain understanding of the possible future.
Who was responsible for the first Prohibition?
Look it up.

Ummm Taos, wouldn't it be LOGICAL to assume that if any prohibition was on the table (and it wasn't), they would've attempted to push it through while they had Congress??

Come on now you can do better. I've seen you do better on here.

You'd think they would have at least banned alcohol in the military, but they haven't except in combat zones.

 

[Mike80]

from the NAE site...........
The time has come for the National Association of Evangelicals to speak and act again in the following ways:
1. Strongly encourage those national organizations which are against alcohol use and abuse, and to join them in condemning the media message that equates alcohol with the good life for adults and which communicates to youth the message: ?You can't have fun without alcohol."
2. Urge NAE churches to make alcohol education and ministry to alcohol victims a priority.
3. Request the media and the corporate community to join in sponsoring informative programs on the down side" of alcohol use.
4. Request public figures, such as athletes and entertainers, to avoid endorsing alcohol use.
5. Promote congressional legislation that would:
a) Label alcohol as a dangerous drug which can result in personal and social harm;
b) Ban advertising of alcohol on television.
6. Urge corporate advertisers not to jointly sponsor television programs, such as the Olympics and other athletic events, with the alcohol industry.
National Association of Evangelicals

so one singular group talks for every evangelical in the nation? Really?

Don't Liberals normally have an aversion for people who label an entire group of people by the actions of a few??

 

[endzoneBucki]

The sons are destined to commit the mistakes of the fathers. :(

 

[Taosman]

so one singular group talks for every evangelical in the nation? Really?

Don't Liberals normally have an aversion for people who label an entire group of people by the actions of a few??

Your making an assumption, now!
Evangelicals make a small percentage of the population, yet through very good organization they were able to get Dubya elected......twice.
They are a tipping point.
In a divided society like we have now, they can have unequal influence.
And Evangelicals refused to criticize Bush even tho they know he's incompetent.
The combination of a tipping point/power and their narrow vision can lead to laws that do not reflect the general population(Prohibition).
But, Hey! If you don't like to drink or smoke or gamble, what's the worry!(sarcasm):tongue2:

 

[Flocka]

Your making an assumption, now!
Evangelicals make a small percentage of the population, yet through very good organization they were able to get Dubya elected......twice.

Interesting assumption. Under your theory Gary Bauer would have won the Republican primary.

From The Economist-

The implication of these findings is that Mr Bush's moral majority is not, as is often thought, composed of a bunch of right-wing evangelical Christians. Rather, it consists of traditionalist and observant church-goers of every kind: Catholic and mainline Protestant, as well as evangelicals, Mormons, Sign Followers, you name it. Meanwhile, modernist evangelicals (yes, there are a few) tend to be Democratic.

And Evangelicals refused to criticize Bush even tho they know he's incompetent.
The combination of a tipping point/power and their narrow vision can lead to laws that do not reflect the general population(Prohibition).
But, Hey! If you don't like to drink or smoke or gamble, what's the worry!(sarcasm):tongue2:

From the Washington Times-

President Bush left several million evangelical voters "on the table" four years ago and again is having trouble energizing Christian conservatives, prominent leaders on the religious right say.
"It's not just economic conservatives upset by runaway federal spending that he's having trouble with. I think his biggest problem will be social conservatives who are not motivated to work for the ticket and to ensure their fellow Christians get to the polling booth," said Robert H. Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute.
"If there is a rerun of 2000, when an estimated 6 million fewer evangelical Christians voted than in the pivotal year of 1994, then the Bush ticket will be in trouble, especially if there is no [Ralph] Nader alternative to draw Democratic votes away from the Democratic candidate," added Mr. Knight, whose organization is an affiliate of Concerned Women for America (CWA).

 

[jwinslow]

so one singular group talks for every evangelical in the nation? Really?

Don't Liberals normally have an aversion for people who label an entire group of people by the actions of a few??

Apparently Taos was looking to strengthen your point...

Your making an assumption, now!
Evangelicals make a small percentage of the population, yet through very good organization they were able to get Dubya elected......twice.
They are a tipping point.
In a divided society like we have now, they can have unequal influence.
And Evangelicals refused to criticize Bush even tho they know he's incompetent.
The combination of a tipping point/power and their narrow vision can lead to laws that do not reflect the general population(Prohibition).
But, Hey! If you don't like to drink or smoke or gamble, what's the worry!(sarcasm):tongue2:

 

[Mike80]

Your making an assumption, now!
Evangelicals make a small percentage of the population, yet through very good organization they were able to get Dubya elected......twice.
They are a tipping point.
In a divided society like we have now, they can have unequal influence.
And Evangelicals refused to criticize Bush even tho they know he's incompetent.
The combination of a tipping point/power and their narrow vision can lead to laws that do not reflect the general population(Prohibition).
But, Hey! If you don't like to drink or smoke or gamble, what's the worry!(sarcasm):tongue2:

So something like 26% of the country elected him?

Come on Taos, don't help my arguments get better and please stop reciting the usual paranoia about Chrisitianity. You can do it.....

And I'd REALLY like to know how there is this giant conspiracy when the GOP isn't even in power in Congress to pass such laws and most of the GOP Congressional membership isn't even EVANGELICAL in the first place.

Edit to add: The prohibition movement wasn't just a Evangelical issue, the secular progressives of the era also thought that it would "improve society".....there were many different extremes in the prohibition movement, from African Americans to the KKK, from the Northern Republican to the Southern and Western Democrat and quite a few in-between.