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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Please expand on this and explain it further.
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As far as I know the original founder and the recent president of MADD have quit lately due to the focus change at MADD. As they have been shifting to a more no alcohol at all policy rather than dont drink and drive.
Claims of the religious right using the organization to push their agenda has been a leading cause.
"Candy Lightner says that "police ought to be concentrating their resources on arresting drunk drivers—not those drivers who happen to have been drinking. I worry that the movement I helped create has lost direction." 3 She is disturbed by MADD's shift from attacking drunk driving to attacking drinking in general.
Ms. Lightner left MADD and is concerned that the organization that she herself created is changing its focus. "It has become far more neo-prohibitionist than I ever wanted or envisioned," she says. "I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving." 4 Lightner emphasized the importance of distinguishing between drinking alcohol on one hand and drunk driving on the other"