Wine is for the poor man – Household Words:

Give Alcohol to the Man Without Hope. Proverbs 31:4–7.

Photo above: New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach (right) watching agents pour liquor into the sewer following a raid, c. 1920. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-123257) Please allow me to speak from personal opinion on the matter of drinking. First, IContinue reading “Give Alcohol to the Man Without Hope. Proverbs 31:4–7.”

Wine is for “Losers”

Remember Prohibition? One hundred years ago, reformers won passage of a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the sale of alcohol in all fifty states. Thirteen years later that amendment was repealed. But the Temperance movement had an impact. Churches and families once neutral about drinking took a stand against it. Why? Because alcohol hurt families. The stereotypeContinue reading “Wine is for “Losers””