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Abstinence pledge programs take a variety of stances on the role of religion in the pledge: some use religion to motivate the pledge, putting Biblical quotes on the cards, while others use statistics and arguments to motivate the pledge. Advocacy of virginity pledges is often coupled with support for abstinence-only sex education in public schools.
The pledge called for a lifetime commitment to abstain from alcoholic beverages: "Whereas, the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage is productive of pauperism, degradation and crime; and believing it our duty to discourage that which produces more evil than good, we therefore pledge ourselves to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors ...
The national structure was the "High Tent" and the order was headquartered in Washington, DC. Membership was open to males aged 16 to 55, females aged twelve and up, and juveniles aged 5-16; the primary tents were composed of males 16–55 years old who believed in a Supreme Being and signed a total abstinence pledge. Individuals over fifty ...
Within ten years, there were over 8,000 local groups and more than 1,250,000 members who had taken the pledge. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The society benefited from, and contributed to, a reform sentiment in much of the country promoting the abolition of slavery , expanding women's rights , temperance , and the improvement of society.
A national temperance union called the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was formed in Boston in 1826. [1] Shortly thereafter, a second national temperance union was organized called the American Temperance Society, which grew to 2,200 known societies in several U.S. states, including 800 in New England, 917 in the Middle Atlantic states, 339 in the South, and 158 in the Northwest.
a Murphy Temperance pledge card, carried by those who pledged to avoid liquor Francis Murphy (24 April 1836 – 30 June 1907) was an American temperance evangelist. Biography
Jul. 5—100 Years Ago July 5, 1921 Brought before Justice J. Grahame Johnson Saturday, charged with selling intoxicating liquors in Frederick county, H.H. Harris and J.A. Cornelius, who were ...
The word is first recorded in 1832 in a general sense in an American source, and in 1833 in England in the context of abstinence. Since at first it was used in other contexts as an emphasised form of total, the tee-is presumably a reduplication of the first letter of total, much as contemporary idiom might say "total with a capital T". [4]