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Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers
sundancing alerts us to a political dustup in the state of Utah, which doesn't have bars like the rest of the country does. Instead, "private clubs" require you to fill out an application and pay a fee if you want to have a drink outside the home. While there is pressure to reform this arrangement — one argument is that it's bad for tourism — the head of the state senate recently floated a proposal to create a database of every bar patron's visits. Now Utah's governor has called that idea "almost Orwellian," adding that "it's very difficult to legislate adulthood," and its supporters seem to be backing off. The idea of requiring bar patrons to swipe their drivers licenses as proof of age is still on the table, though.
Mormons have a history of trying to control everything and tell people how to believe.
There ruining the BSA, they spend millions to tell force you how to live, they will use the legal system, they try to only hire people of the same belief, they make efforts to ensnare children into there system, the oppress women.
That's just a start.
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How healthy is the main stream? What kind of social nonsense is it to indicate that a person can get high at times without being outcast? One of our nations greatest problems is that we are not applying severe social penalties for alcohol and illegal drug use. Social discrimination can be used to absolutely demand only the highest level of function and morality for all people at all times. The Victorian model has much to be said for its qualities.
Liking doritos or going skiing do not cause sterility. To determine whether something is a disease or not one can try to think of what would happen if everybody had that same condition. If everybody had the condition of homosexuality, humankind would have become extinct by now, so it is a disease, mortal to the species although it may not seem to cause too much harm to the individual.