Prohibition & Religious Freedom
Does anyone know what the deal was with religious freedom exemptions for alcohol during prohibition? I imagine there must be some case history to this, as well as some colorful anecdotes about rabbis and priests running wine speakeasys (speakeasies?) and such. Only the Muslims didn't have a real angle on this. Just curious - never heard anything about this.
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Don't know any colorful stories, but Catholic liturgical wine was exempted, with some special provisos for transporting and storing it (I think each parish had to get a small supply from the diocese each week).
I recall there being some call to keep wine illegal as well as dig at the Catholics, but maybe I'm just being sectarian.
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