How things have changed since the days of Brigham Young, who owned one of the largest breweries west of the Mississippi: "Orin Porter Rockwell, personal bodyguard to Brigham Young, U.S. Deputy Marshal and zealous religious enforcer, operated the Hot Springs Hotel and Brewery near Point of the Mountain in 1856." (Eileen Hallet Stone, "Living History: Plenty of booze in the Beehive State until Prohibition." SL Trib., 4 Sept. 2010.) "Not only did Rockwell, whom Young assigned as manager and proprietor of the business, pay 10% of his earnings as tithing to Young's church, but Brigham secretly pocketed up to 50% of the after-tithing profits. This was not Rockwell's first adventure in bar management; he had also been allowed to open a small bar in Joseph's own house in Nauvoo to earn a living while protecting the prophet." (Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippets Avery, "Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith," 2nd ed., Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1994, at 178-9.) Today, of course, the Utah State Liquor Control Comm. controls the sale of alcohol within its boundaries, but since the so-called "State of Utah" is merely an alter ego of the LDS Church, it appears that not much has changed after all. But Young's involvement in the Nauvoo brothel should not be a surprise to the LDS people. Once established in Utah as it's territorial governor, Young established his own brewery and a brothel named the Hot Springs Hotel and Brewery. It was located in Draper where the current Utah State Prison exists today. Of course, Young appointed others to run his disreputable businesses so that his name was not directly associated with what they offered to its customers. (See generally, D. Michael Quinn, "Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power," at 766, 798, 819.) But I remember as a young boy in the closing days of WW II how my grandparents used to make dandelion wine in their basement, which the LDS "block teachers" so indignantly criticized in complete ignorance of Young's practices.

Adulthood is illegal in Utah. Now mind your P's and Q's and go to Temple.