Idaho suddenly starts enforcing puritanical law after theater serves alcohol during ’50 Shades of Grey’

The owners of an Idaho movie theater is challenging an obscure state law that bans the sale of alcohol during movies and films that depict sex after a police bust during a showing of “50 Shades of Grey.”
The owners of Median Cinemas and Village cinema sued Idaho State Police after its alcohol enforcement division threatened to revoke their liquor license for serving alcoholic beverages to undercover officers last year, reported KOIN-TV.
Village Cinema offers a “VIP” section in some theaters that allow adults over 21 to buy and drink alcohol during movies — but state troopers investigated an anonymous complaint that showings of the hit movie violated a little-used statute.
State police said they warned the theater that showings of the rated-R movie violated the state law, which was passed 16 years ago, and threatened to revoke its liquor license.
Two undercover detectives then went to the theater about 40 minutes before the movie began, purchased a Blue Moon beer and a rum-and-Diet Coke and drank the alcoholic beverages after the sexually explicit movie began.
The state police complaint notes that waitresses did not tell the undercover detectives they couldn’t drink alcohol during “50 Shades of Grey,” and employees allowed them to do so throughout the movie.
The theater’s owners, however, said the detectives ignored signs and warnings from employees about drinking during the movie.
Dave Corkill, one the theater’s owner, said he had shown hundreds of movies that potentially violate the statute but no complaints had ever been filed.
His co-owner said they believe the law is “out of date and silly,” but she said they follow it anyway.
The theater’s lawsuit argues that a similar case in California ended up in federal court, which found that those restrictions violated the First Amendment.
The California law was eventually repealed.
The lawsuit claims the theater owners had lost money because they could not show other popular movies, including “The Wolf of Wall Street,” due to the restrictions.


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/idaho-suddenly-starts-enforcing-puritanical-law-after-theater-serves-alcohol-during-50-shades-of-grey/


The US should beg to be let back into the colonies. As at least that way their citizens would have far more equality that they do now under the State Federal System.

Yes, because of one stupid law in one state, we should surrender our sovereignty to a bunch of tea-sippers who come over faint at the sight of a hijab ... right

They would still have more equality if they did



Where is your sense of humour Mr Grumpy?

Didge wrote:They would still have more equality if they did



Where is your sense of humour Mr Grumpy?

Right here, bud:

Oh, and if you're going to tease me with children's characters, at least make it:



Or better yet!

If American, I would have posted this lol




Sorry could not resist

Didge wrote:If American, I would have posted this lol




Sorry could not resist

I must confess my pitiful knowledge of the Muppets beyond Kermit, Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear

Back to the OP, though, what a ridiculous law. I have to ask why it exists -- were state legislators afraid that an orgy might break out?

Well I was going to ask you Ben if you knew anymore on this and whether there is any religious Christian conservatism behind this?
As that would be my first suspicion.

Alcohol, sex, one of the three states of Arizona, Utah and Idaho? Do you see the magic hand of Mormonism working?

These are important lessons.

I shouldn't imagine an orgy breaking out after watching that pile of shit Hahahaha
That book was terrible, can't imagine the film being any better.

eddie wrote:I shouldn't imagine an orgy breaking out after watching that pile of shit Hahahaha
That book was terrible, can't imagine the film being any better.

I borrowed it from a friend, read the first chapter and gave it back to her, badly written and if that's someone's idea of erotica they don't have much of an imagination!

My Wife read 12 pages, said what a load of crap.

Exactly what I thought sassy!
Written so badly and hardly "daring"

Didge wrote:Well I was going to ask you Ben if you knew anymore on this and whether there is any religious Christian conservatism behind this?
As that would be my first suspicion.

Ding ding ding! You are correct.

nicko wrote:My Wife read 12 pages,    said what a load of crap.

Wasn't it originally written as Twilight fan fiction?

Ben_Reilly wrote:

nicko wrote:My Wife read 12 pages,    said what a load of crap.

Wasn't it originally written as Twilight fan fiction?

No it was written as wank material for the authoress and then her lady readers

eddie wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

nicko wrote:My Wife read 12 pages,    said what a load of crap.

Wasn't it originally written as Twilight fan fiction?

No it was written as wank material for the authoress and then her lady readers

It was actually both: http://www.businessinsider.com/fifty-shades-of-grey-started-out-as-twilight-fan-fiction-2015-2

Ah, a twilight wank.
Probably the best kind.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:

No it was written as wank material for the authoress and then her lady readers

It was actually both: http://www.businessinsider.com/fifty-shades-of-grey-started-out-as-twilight-fan-fiction-2015-2

Twilight was written by Stephenie Meyer, a graduate of Brigham Young University (BYU), which is owned and operated by the Church of the Latter Day Saints (LDS, or Mormons).  She was a follower/student of Orson Scott Card, whom you may know as the author of Ender's Game, a film that came out a couple of years ago starring Harrison Ford.  Orson Scott Card is a notorious anti-gay, Mormon spokesperson.  

Orson Scott Card taught creative writing at BYU, where Stephenie Meyer took his writing classes and fell under his influence.  BYU is the most famous of the Mormon universities throughout the world.  It is located in Provo, just south of Salt Lake City, UT.  Card now teaches at Southern Virginia University, also a Mormon institution.

As Ben's article shows, E.L. James started writing Fifty Shades as a take-off on the Twilight books.  Now a predominately Mormon state (Idaho) starts banning a book based upon a series written by a Mormon author, and student/devotee of a Mormon novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist, who is notorious for his conservative, anti-gay diatribes?  See the plot?  Need anything more?

Didge wrote:Well I was going to ask you Ben if you knew anymore on this and whether there is any religious Christian conservatism behind this?
As that would be my first suspicion.

Your point is well-taken, Didge.  Only it's not Christian, but Mormon.  As we have discussed, Mormons are not Christians as they reject the Trinity.  However, they are every bit as conservative, and they think like Fundamentalist Christians.