Comments about ‘Liquor law hurts business, critics say’

These mormon law makers can be so tolerant right desnews readers? Nothing like paranoia to bring peoples differences together. I remember going to the Mazza on 9th and 9th to have a nice dinner with my wife, and then buying the whole school (Rowland Hall) a booz buffet. Come on people!

Can we get a senator to propose the proximity law to include no churches within 600 feet of schools? I think having churches that close entices young students to go to church.

Am I missing something? Are bars, nightclubs and restaurants enticing minors at a school or church to engage in underage drinking?

We don't eat at restaurants that serve booze. And I know a great many people who don't either. So if businesses think they need to have liquor licenses to survive, they are missing out. There are always whiny people who think everything has to be for drinkers. Not long ago, everything had to be for smokers too because they just had to have their cigarettes. Now most of them or dead or have finally got it thru their thick skulls that smoking kills. Guess what? Alcohol kills too, in many ways. It's not good for you. I don't intend to expose my family to it or to people who are dumb enough to have to drink. If some people don't like that, too bad. I really don't care. We'll patronize businesses that agree with our views.

They should just outlaw alcohol consumption everywhere by anyone. There, problem solved!

It's amazing no one has tried that before Jason.

Oh wait... How did prohibition end up again?

The complaint is that this law is hurting business...GOOD! A business that makes its money by selling a substance that induces innumerable detriments to society should not be encouraged. This is not intolerance, it is economics. The financial drain that alcohol has upon our society in terms of accidents, decreased productivity, deaths, addiction treatment, violence, rape, abuse, etc, etc, etc.

The reason many individuals drink alcohols is that it dis inhibits them, helps them feel differently, etc. Not all behave poorly, but enough do behave without restraint that it warrants government intervention.

In the end Alcohol is legal. Adults are allowed to purchase and consume at their leisure. This does not mean it should be available at every restaurant, in every neighborhood. Limiting the access away from schools and churches is a reasonable measure that in the end limits the accessibility overall. Thus, limiting the potential pain, tragedy, etc at least in the areas surrounding the schools and churches of Utah.

Only in Utah are there so many paranoid and mindless individuals who have the concept that having a drink is a crime.

Personally, I would authorize pubs in every subdivision to promote values and pride in a community.

What does where a pub is have to do with schools or churches? What are they afraid of? Most people who have a drink are not drunkards or slobs, they are good and well deserving people.

There is too much paranoia in government and leaders of communities with some archaic misconceptions.

Besides, it has been proven that moderate drinking is healthy and good for you. This paranoia in Utah about sinners and sin taxes has gone on long enough.

Some people like to go out for nice meals - not all of confine our eating out to McDonald's.

Yes, lets reinstate prohibition, dispense liquior in churches and schools. Whatever we do lets not let logic and reason prevail. The lady doing business with those businesses that offer an atmosphere favorable to her beliefs is the way to control what is offered, or not offered in a business. No customers, no business, with many customers you have a viable business. Let the buying public choose who they want to support. How is it right for one faction to control what is offered by a business? Perhaps we should pass a law to prevent the distribution of frankfurters, surely there are some that find them objectionable. We surely need a few more restrictive laws on the books, that are not beneficial to the general public, but are compatible with the beliefs of some.

I grew up in a house and family just like yours. Guess what at age 15 I learned your personal choices are lies. Stay in your house for all we care dont go past your front door. And listen to everything that Glen Beck tells And believe its all fact. The rest of would like to enjoy life a bit before we die.
CC Proud Utah Atheist AMERICAN family.

Maybe pharmacies should be banned to, I believe prescription drugs are abused and cause more family problems in Utah than alcohol does. If the LDS have such a good program why are they worried about the choices of their people shouldn't they make the correct choices.

Religion has killed more people in the name of their gods than alcohol...

No problem with your kind of people at restaurants that serve liquor. We don't need your screaming snot nosed kids running around making a pest of themselves, thereby taking away the enjoyment of others. Restaurants are not baby-sitting places so keep your kids under control !

My experience has been that catering to the conservative LDS crowd, who refuse to eat anywhere that liquor is served (such as the "No liquor" responder) is economic death to your business. Mormons are typically so cheap that you have no chance of succeeding with them as your base unless you have a fast food restaurant, where liquor isn't an issue anyway.

How can a church regulate stuff like this that's affiliated with the state? Isn't there supposed to be a separation of church and state? Only in Utah does this happen. This is honestly outrageous. LDS people in Utah think they're the only people living there. Alcohol is everywhere, and I'm not saying it's good for you, but there is no need to prohibit others from consuming something they like. If you don't want to be around it then don't go out to eat. Stay home.

"We don't eat at restaurants that serve booze ... Alcohol kills too, in many ways. It's not good for you ... We'll patronize businesses that agree with our views."

Well guess what ... obesity kills too. So if I understand you correctly, you will not eat at the Olive Garden but you will eat at Denny's? I fail to see your argument. BTW, watch out for the coffee there ... your kids may see.

Well, I for one just want to sit in my basement, eat a sack of cookies, gulp down sodie pop, wash my oversized gut with jello, and listen to Glen Beck so's I cant get through the day.
Them drinkers are a filthy bunch who don't allow Ruch and Glen to tell them what to put in their brains.
Church and good food over alcohol any day.
Now go ahead and call me names.

"Alcohol is everywhere, and I'm not saying it's good for you, but there is no need to prohibit others from consuming something they like."

You are right it is bad for you. And you are not being denied. You can buy it all over. That is if you are over 21. Many, many, many cities all over the country have no alcohol near churches and schools. It is very common to attempt to protect kids. I just hope you don't drive when you drink.

re: Hey No Liquor 8:15am

amen!