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'Zack and Miri' Banned in Utah
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No way. I've gone to liquor stores and bars in Utah. I think they call bars clubs or something there and you have to buy a membership - either a day long membership or a year long membership - before you can drink in the place.
Yeah, you can buy beer, liqours, vodka whatever here.
There are laws like bars have to be closed sundays or something, and little things like that that rally don't say "No alcohol". You can still buy your drinks and drink whenever the hell you want.
From a political standpoint, I think someone should be able to go to the bar and drink whenever they want. I like to be fair and am willing to be reasonable and compromise with people. I like putting myself in the other guys shoes and then making a more unbiased opinion.
But, as someone who has never even tasted an alcoholic beverage altogether I don't really care one way or the other about the alcohol laws. If it gets changed, I could care less.
About half the govt here is LDS(mormon) and the other half is almost anit-mormon. It's fairly polarized, which isn't a good thing. Plarity between people brings contention and discrimination. Hate and prejudice that is unwarranted.
In utah, for the most part it is black and white. You have the "goodie" "highly moral" mormon people who are strongly opposed to everything outside church teachings (which are not politically attractive. The alcohol laws being one of these examples). And there are the non mormons who intentionally disrupt and go against the LDS church. There are always exceptions, but this is pretty much how I see it.
I have talked with people who are gay athiest liberals (an extreme opposite of myself) on the university campus about their perspective of Utah life. They say the exact same thing, except thier point of view is the opposite of my own. "Oh, the LDS church just tries to control everything here. We don't really have any freedoms. We can only do what the church tells us we can."
While, in reality, the church does have influence on the law making here ONLY because some of the law makers are church members (and not because church leaders run government), the laws have been fairly accomodating as the out-of-staters move in and the dominant influence here becomes slowly dilluted.
All in all though it is fairly balanced. People on both sides of the line get most of what they want. There have been lots of political compromises to be much more leniant towards the rights of the american citizens regardless of who they are.
100 years ago, you could not say the same thing. 99% of the population was LDS then, and all the laws and standards were in harmony with church teachings. It was "too bad" for a non-lds person who disagreed with the local laws.
Now that about 55% of the population here is LDS, the laws have changed pretty drastically.
Friendly candain, suck my balls. Your comment was mostly out of ignorance. Saying Utah should be nuked anyone because you disagree with them is out of misunderstanding and misplaced conention. Besides, Jnevin lives here. You don't want to nuke him do you? He is a good guy.
Jnevin is pretty much on the other side of the line than me, and I get the impression he is fairly content living here. Maybe I'm completely wrong though.
I'd be interested in his comments.
There are laws like bars have to be closed sundays or something, and little things like that that rally don't say "No alcohol". You can still buy your drinks and drink whenever the hell you want.
From a political standpoint, I think someone should be able to go to the bar and drink whenever they want. I like to be fair and am willing to be reasonable and compromise with people. I like putting myself in the other guys shoes and then making a more unbiased opinion.
But, as someone who has never even tasted an alcoholic beverage altogether I don't really care one way or the other about the alcohol laws. If it gets changed, I could care less.
About half the govt here is LDS(mormon) and the other half is almost anit-mormon. It's fairly polarized, which isn't a good thing. Plarity between people brings contention and discrimination. Hate and prejudice that is unwarranted.
In utah, for the most part it is black and white. You have the "goodie" "highly moral" mormon people who are strongly opposed to everything outside church teachings (which are not politically attractive. The alcohol laws being one of these examples). And there are the non mormons who intentionally disrupt and go against the LDS church. There are always exceptions, but this is pretty much how I see it.
I have talked with people who are gay athiest liberals (an extreme opposite of myself) on the university campus about their perspective of Utah life. They say the exact same thing, except thier point of view is the opposite of my own. "Oh, the LDS church just tries to control everything here. We don't really have any freedoms. We can only do what the church tells us we can."
While, in reality, the church does have influence on the law making here ONLY because some of the law makers are church members (and not because church leaders run government), the laws have been fairly accomodating as the out-of-staters move in and the dominant influence here becomes slowly dilluted.
All in all though it is fairly balanced. People on both sides of the line get most of what they want. There have been lots of political compromises to be much more leniant towards the rights of the american citizens regardless of who they are.
100 years ago, you could not say the same thing. 99% of the population was LDS then, and all the laws and standards were in harmony with church teachings. It was "too bad" for a non-lds person who disagreed with the local laws.
Now that about 55% of the population here is LDS, the laws have changed pretty drastically.
Friendly candain, suck my balls. Your comment was mostly out of ignorance. Saying Utah should be nuked anyone because you disagree with them is out of misunderstanding and misplaced conention. Besides, Jnevin lives here. You don't want to nuke him do you? He is a good guy.
Jnevin is pretty much on the other side of the line than me, and I get the impression he is fairly content living here. Maybe I'm completely wrong though.
I'd be interested in his comments.
This thread is about a movie being banned and utha laws.
That ("magic underwear") is something I hold very sacred, and for you to mock it so non-chlantly is extremely offensive. And it's not magic underwear, and it has never been deemed as such. Only by those who have no understanding of the significance of it, which I refuse to discuss.
You are more retarded than the guy in your avi.
k thanks.
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fistfullofsteel
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I didn't mean to hurt you.
jnevin
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This is funny. I didn't read the article yet, but I'm assuming it's Larry Miller's theatres? He only makes himself look ridiculous to the rest of the country with shit like this. I think he also didn't show Brokeback Mountain. It'll be playing at other theatres.
lol @ polititians with strong morals. That Jason Chafitz (sp?) guy running for congress was on the news this morning saying he thinks abortion rights should be decided by states but in the next breath that there should be an ammendment to the constitution banning gay marriage. That's such discriminant hypocricy it's ridiculous.
Buffguy does tend to get butthurt pretty easily when you rib him about his newer flavor of jesusness. I don't understand the magic draws either, but having grown up catholic and seeing my grandmother praying to different saints for different shit, nothing seems too stupid.
And there's no anti-momo polititians here. Not like buffguy seems to think at least.
lol @ polititians with strong morals. That Jason Chafitz (sp?) guy running for congress was on the news this morning saying he thinks abortion rights should be decided by states but in the next breath that there should be an ammendment to the constitution banning gay marriage. That's such discriminant hypocricy it's ridiculous.
Buffguy does tend to get butthurt pretty easily when you rib him about his newer flavor of jesusness. I don't understand the magic draws either, but having grown up catholic and seeing my grandmother praying to different saints for different shit, nothing seems too stupid.
And there's no anti-momo polititians here. Not like buffguy seems to think at least.
