What that verse proves is exactly what everyone has said from the beginning, if drinking or eating in the presence of those who may stumble, refrain. Drinking is not condemned, drunkenness is, not being of sober mind. If a person has a bad personal experience, what right do they have to condemn another? It's easy to overlook that people who defend what the scriptures say also have very negative experiences to the topic; this does not give you the right to change the Word of God.
If you had respect for others you wouldn't consider them willfully ignorant to the teachings of God, you are not showing love, but prejudice. Skirting around a pointed word does nothing to the truth, it just proves further ignorance.
Romans 14:19: "Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.
So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
