[Junior_G]

If you want to get stumbling drunk, do it at home. Why is that too much for you?

Freedom trumps your puritanical sensibilities. Why is that too much for you?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Freedom under law, my dear. Obviously Texas has a public intoxication law. There is nothing unreasonable about that. I believe you can live quite free without being stumbling drunk in public.

Freedom abused by licentiousness is eventually freedom lost.

[ksen]

Freedom trumps your puritanical sensibilities.

What makes you think the Puritans would've been on the ban alcohol side?

Some "fun" Puritan facts:

1. The Puritans loaded more beer than water onto the Mayflower before they cast off for the New World.
   
2. While there wasn't any cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, or pumpkin pie to eat at the first Thanksgiving, there was beer, brandy, gin, and wine to drink.
3. A brewery was one of Harvard College's first construction projects so that a steady supply of beer could be served in the student dining halls.
4. The early colonialists made alcohol beverages from, among other things, carrots, tomatoes, onions, beets, celery, squash, corn silk, dandelions, and goldenrod.
5. The first Kentucky whiskey was made in 1789 by a Baptist minister.
6. Colonial taverns were often required to be located near the church or meetinghouse.

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/FunFacts/PuritansToProhibition.html