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« on: December 19, 2013, 08:43:17 AM »

How long before other states start handing out bus tickets to Utah?

From this summer...


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« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2013, 08:51:19 AM »

I suspect "good Mormon values" had a play in this?

Yeah, not surprising at all.  I believe it was Mark Twain in one of his books that remarked about how clean and orderly Salt Lake city was.  Even back then Mormons went to great lengths to keep their cities nice and free of things like public drunkenness and crime.
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« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2013, 09:45:10 AM »

Man, that would be the uber-cynical point of view of this whole thing, wouldn't it?  Could Utah be doing this because the poors are unpleasant for the dapper and well-dressed denizens to look at when they hit the town for weekend family time? 

That most certainly was not what I was saying or what I gleaned from Mark Twains writings.  By addressing the issues one of the side effects is things are more pleasant for everyone.  If you choose to believe that is the sole motivation behind offering this type of assistance that is an inference you will have to make on your own.  I  made no such observation.
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« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2013, 06:01:03 PM »

Good for Utah. It definitely improves my impression of religion when it is used as a reason to help the working class, as opposed to oppressing minorities.

That's the point.  There are no minorities in Utah to oppress.

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