Utah Hospitality Association sues over Utah Liquor Laws

The LDS church has NO BUSINESS being involved in ANY government matters in any way! IT'S FEDERAL LAW! The U.S. Constitution MANDATES separation of church and state, and mormons even though they consider themselves present-day saints, are NOT above this law, even if they were the 1st significant group in the area. The group should file in Federal court as what goes on in this state blatantly flies in the face of the U.S. Constitution . In the story: Senator Valentine disagrees, "The 21st Amendment of the United States Constitution gives states broad authority to control consumption and sale of alcoholic beverages." It gives STATES authority NOT the LDS church! If legislators can't make laws without impunity from the LDS church because they are mormons, they have no business in government, PERIOD! If the church were to infer 'consequences' -or- state legislators voluntarily 'approach' the LDS church for its 'blessing' on a bill BOTH PARTIES ARE FELONS! So much for your 'sainthood'!

It Utah, it seems as if the liquor laws change on a whim. How exactly does that work? What happened to free enterprise? Don't they have better things to spend their time, energy, and OUR $ on? Bar owners are not idiots! It took a day to figure out ways around the "NO MORE SPECIALS"! Are you kidding me? Try to mandate that in every venue...go ahead...waste more of our money..you are so good at that!!! Now, go to the liquor licenses...What a crazy disaster that has become. You have a bar. You have a liquor license. If you decide to retire you sell the business, right? WRONG! Now you have a bar. You can sell the business. You cannot sell the liquor license until July 2012.(a year from the date that this came into effect I think) Well who is going to buy your bar without the liquor license? Hmmmm.....crazy isn't it? But...there are loop holes in everything. So WTH?? Why go through all the trouble and tax payers $ to change it when there are ways around it?? You sell the business but keep it in your name until the required time. Wow...that was a hard one to figure out. What I don't quite understand is...you cannot get a liquor license because there are not any available...BUT...lucky for you....WE WILL SELL YOU A SEASONAL LIQUOR LICENSE...THERE IS THE SUMMER SEASON AND THE WINTER SEASON...You have to pay the same amount of course...BUT YOU GET ALL THE SAME RIGHTS, PRIVILEDGES, ETC! It gets even better...and please..correct me if I am wrong. Educate me if I seem niave. But the even better part is...they don't seem to have to abide by ALL the same rules, and meet ALL the same requirements as you do when you have a "full time" liquor license. Is it a MORMON thing? Is it a REVENUE thing? IS IT A STUPIDITY THING? OR is it just me?