The Wall Street Journal explores the bizarre world of Utah liquor law and the governor's quest to "normalize" them. Gov. Jon Huntsman tells the WSJ:
Reforming our outdated alcohol policies is something we take seriously, since it has a direct impact on our economic viability in today's highly mobile world. Ultimately it will be important for our state to be more in line with prevailing policies found across the country.
Huntsman appointed four of the commission's five members and they've have gotten the message. Sam Granato, the non-drinking liquor-commission chairman, says flatly, "Being appointed by the governor, we're taking his lead." The public gets its say this month.
But who cares what the guv, let alone Sam Granato and you and me, have to say about it? The 900,000-pound gorilla of Utah liquor law has yet to weigh in. And so far, no one can get a hint or even a flirtatious wink out of the LDS Church.
Could it be the LDS Church watches the polls? Nah. I'm no theologian, but if a church believes boozing is morally wrong, it should say so, right? — and "economic viability in this mobile world" be damned.
This is not a done deal.
1 Comments:
Isn't it about time that the government of the people of Utah stopped asking the church for permission to govern this state?
If the church is so paranoid about their members' potential for consuming alcohol, then they aren't doing a very good job of teaching their flock how to obey their commandments.
What happened to, "Be in world but not of it", and "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.".
LDS Church, can you please let adults who are not your members have some "free agency"? You can have whatever rules you want in your church, just don't impose them via state law on everyone else.
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