Moonshine morality.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Remembering the Prohibition period - Brief article

The recent PBS series on prohibition was at once frightening and reassuring: scary when it revealed that a really bad constitutional amendment could get passed by thirty-six state legislatures in little more than one year; comforting in that the repeal got through thirty-six legislatures in less than a year.

The point that resonated the most for me was one about the effect prohibition had on the Christianity of those who lived through it--the point resonated because I had seen this effect at work in my...