Prohibition and the Scopes Trial

Do you think the passage of the Volstead Act and the ruling in the Scopes trial represented genuine triumphs for traditional values?

I don not think that the passage of the Volstead Act and the ruling in the Scopes trial represented triumphs for traditional values. Instead, these two occurrences seemed to trigger and uprising of "modern" values.
The passage of the Volstead Act was a disaster. Not only was it ineffective, it was also extremely unpopular within few years. Instead of conserving traditional values, the passage of the act triggered the uprising bootlegging and criminal empires.By making alcohol illegal the act did not prevent anyone from drinking alcohol, it only made the process of obtaining it much worse. Gangsters like Al Capone became rich from the illegal alcohol business. Many times these operations were violence and, in Capone's case, killed off their other competition. Soon, people were fed-up with the act, which was repealed in 1933. It did nothing to further traditional values.
The ruling at Scopes trial did not present so much as a surge of tractional values, but rather it represented the changing ways of thinking. Although the judge (who was a devout Protestant) did not rule in Scope's favor, the issue of teaching evolution in schools even coming into a court did not show that traditional values were becoming more popular, it showed that traditional values were becoming less important. The judge Bryan, when questioned by trial lawyer Darrow,admitted that he believed the world was created in 1 day, shocked many people. Bryan even admitted the Bible could be interpreted differently. This ruling only stirred controversy over fundamentalism values and was not a triumph for traditional values.