The Germans included many quite distinct subgroups with differing religious and cultural values.[23] Lutherans and Catholics typically opposed Yankee moralizing programs such as the prohibition of beer, and favored paternalistic families with the husband deciding the family position on public affairs.[24][25] They generally opposed woman suffrage but this was used as argument in favor of suffrage when German American became pariahs during World War I.[26] On the other hand there were Protestant groups that emerged from European pietism such as the German Methodist and United Brethren; they more closely resembled the Yankee Methodists in their moralism.