Lackadaisy Sendoff (Patreon)

Posting this exclusively for Patrons for the moment, just to say thanks for your patience.

This took longer than my projection because I added the next update to it as well. This way, it's much longer than it would have been had I posted it last week, and it wraps up this segment. When it came down to it, I couldn't really justify spreading this bit out across multiple updates.  On to another chapter and different characters next time.

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A note about the content:
The temperance movement had some very prominent religious underpinnings, (perhaps most notably the WCTU), but National Prohibition remained a sore topic among a diversity of religious groups, including Catholics, Jews and German Lutherans, who tended more toward the 'wet' side of the debate. It had little to do with the alcohol, though. In part, it was because these groups were enduring some amount of hostile sentiment in America at the time and had reasons to fear escalating establishment-borne scrutiny and persecution predicated on broad policing of the 18th Amendment.
Lutherans seemed particularly incensed by the muddling of gospel with prohibition rhetoric and steadfastly resisted marching to the beat with Baptists, Methodists, and other largely 'dry' Protestant groups. They didn't encourage unlawful rebellion, of course, but a number of ecclesiastics penned anti-prohibition diatribes more colorful and fiery than I could manage to represent here.