“...We therefore formulate, and for ourselves adopt the following pledge, asking our sisters and brothers of a common danger and a common hope, to make common cause with us, in working its reasonable and helpful precepts [principles] into the practice of everyday life. I hereby solemnly promise, God helping me, to abstain from all distilled, fermented and malt liquors, including wine, beer and cider, and to employ all proper means to discourage the use of and traffic in the same” — National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1908 (adapted)

According to this passage, those who adopted this pledge believed that

Group of answer choices

Congress should repeal Prohibition

only the government can solve social problems

alcohol consumption was damaging to society

religion had no place in national politics