[StevenFlorida]

That’s a step in the right direction. So now you can drink Iced Tea and Ice Coffee? When they let you drink an occasional glass of wine or beer, let me know.

The Mormon Church was founded in a period of American History that was very strong in the Temperence Movement. Maine was the first dry state in 1851. The passage of the law, which prohibited the sale of all alcoholic beverages except for “medicinal, mechanical or manufacturing purposes,” quickly spread elsewhere, and by 1855 twelve states had joined Maine in total prohibition.

The Republican Party was founded by a coalition of Whigs, Anti-Slavery, No-Nothing Nativists and Temperance Movement

[roylene]

ah, No. Smith had his alleged vision in 1832. Smith had a bar in his house.

His wife wrote about it her journal, Smith and his cronies would hang around drinking while smoking cigars.

The Republican Party was founded by a coalition of Whigs, Anti-Slavery, anti-polygamy people.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Years ago I read that when the mormons got to Utah they started up their own wine and liquor manufacturing for many years.

One of their “enforcers” Danite or Avenging Angel, died after choking on his own vomit after a night of boozing.

The mormon press eulogized him as a good church member.

The anti-mormon press eulogy was not good to him, calling him one who slit a throat or murdered women and children.

[Elsie]

When they let you drink an occasional glass of wine or beer, let me know.

Well; they'd have to get rid of D&C 89:5, first.

No!

WAIT!!

They STILL have D&C 132:58-66 and they IGNORE that!

[Elsie]

The Mormon Church was founded in a period of American History that was very strong in the Temperence Movement.

Yeah...

THAT worked out well!!

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http://en.fairmormon.org/Word_of_Wisdom/Joseph_Smith_sold_liquor_in_Nauvoo

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http://en.fairmormon.org/Word_of_Wisdom/Brigham_Young's_whiskey_distillery

[editor-surveyor]

>> “When they let you drink an occasional glass of wine or beer, let me know.” <<

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‘Pends on who you are.

My late and former father-in-law, a mormon from a founding mormon family, and “one of the seventy” as they say, when he made his pitch to me to become a mormon (well before I married his daughter) brought a “cold case” of Coors and set it down on his picnic table in the back yard, and consumed at least his share of it as we sat there and talked for about 5 or 6 hours.

He was a powerful man in the mormon church.