Originally Published in 1923.
The voice of the Lord God Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, as reflected by the people of the United States and their self-imposed laws and regulations, severally by municipalities and states (including Kansas) or collectively by the union:
1. God is against cigarettes.
2. God is against playing cards.
3. God is against advertisements of Scotch whiskey.
4. God is against Scotch whiskey.
5. God is against playing billiards.
6. God is against playing pool.
7. God is against moving pictures showing a man kissing a woman for longer than ten seconds.
8. God is against “Septermber Morn.” [A German song from 1915]
9. God is against “The Girl with the Whooping Cough.” [Unidentified Reference]
10. God is against Eugene V. Debs.
11. God is against Little Egypt.
12. God is against playing baseball on Sunday.
13. God is against carrying a pocket flask.
14. God is against dancing after eleven P.M.
15. God is against dancing after twelve P.M.
16. God is against dancing after one A.M.
17. God is against dancing at all.
18. God is against secret societies.
19. God is against German opera.
20. God is public speaking by a member of the I.W.W.
21. God is against Boccaccio, Balzac, Fielding and Anatole France.
22. God is against bare knees.
23. God is against allowing children to appear on the stage.
24. God is against the female leg.
25. God is against congregating on street corners.
26. God is against letting poor men sleep on the benches in public parks.
27. God is against birth control.
28. God is against speaking in public on birth control.
29. God is against sending birth control literature through the mail.
31. God is against the minority at all times.
32. God is gainst all illiterates save those who are American born.
33. God is against a trade alliance of proficient business men against inferiors.
37. God believes that if the United States didn’t look after South America, South America would go to the dogs.
38. God is against Socialists, but loves all Republicans and Democrats.
39. God is against hoochie-coochie dancing.
40. God is against walking on the grass in public parks.
41. God is against prize-fighting.
42. God doesn’t believe in betting on the races.
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