Originally Posted by greenbaggins

I'm not so sure that the sensitive conscience thing can be so easily settled. After all, drunkenness most certainly did exist before Prohibition. And someone's conscience might be very tender on a topic like that even before Prohibition. That is demonstrated by my own church. We are long after Prohibition, and most people in my church don't even know about it. It simply isn't a factor, except through some kind of remembered consciousness that is inter-generational. Nevertheless, one of the churches I serve is militantly against wine in communion because of drunkenness problems in the church. In fact, they are not even open to talking about the biblical position, and what Jesus did. Prohibition is not the main reason for it. The reason is that they want to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Sometimes it is amazing to me how closed to the truth of the Word some people can be.

But, as AA itself says, if an alcoholic is strongly tempted to go back to alcoholism because of one thimble-full of wine, they were going to fall anyway.