It's important to separate variables appropriately here, since religion and/or bigotry is not the only way to make it to less alcohol. To make a statement such

It's important to separate variables appropriately here, since religion and/or bigotry is not the only way to make it to less alcohol. To make a statement such as less alcohol leads to bigotry would be ridiculous. Although on a somewhat unrelated note, unfortunately many areas of biological sciences make this category of error in publications often.