Why Are Americans so Anti-Utah?

[Nubclear]

(inspired by a different thread. But because this is a different subject and that thread is probably going to spin off in thousands of directions right about....now, I'd like this question answered.)

Not being form the United STates, I sometimes wonder what everyone has against Utah. Despite being Mormon Fanatics (which does bug me a little, being....not mormon) it's a.....sort of good place to be. Low (in most places) crime, great place to raise children if you can steer them away from Utah Mormon Propaganda....

But sometimes when I go up to someone else in a different state, their concerned and even scared that I come from Utah and that I might be a mormon.

So whats this anti-mormon anti-utah thing all about? Help the Russian.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Because Utah's anti-everything. Half of my bookmarked sites are listed as being illegal in that state.

[Inverse Icarus]

I have no problem with Utah at all, in any way shape or form.

As for mormons, I think it's the polygamy (sp?) thing that many people oppose. I really couldn't care less.

[loinburger]

Utah's got gorgeous scenery, but not a whole lot else besides that.

[Asher]

I had a gay mormon friend who moved to Utah and is now straight and urging me to covert so I can be straight too.

Stuff like that, I'd imagine.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Maybe I get a little disturbed by a lake that get so thick you can walk on it.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Is Utah still a dry state or can you buy hooch there these days?

Another one- is it still illegal to have any form of sex that involves the removal of clothing or involves bodily contact?

[Kepler]

I don't think anybody's anti-Utah -- Utah's the prettiest country I've ever seen, and the skiing is great.

OTOH, a lot of people are anti-Utavian. Gotta have something to do with Mormons, but personally my peeve is their drivers -- the worst I've ever seen *including Romans*. People so damn sure they're going to heaven they drive like they can't wait to get there.

[Dinner]

I'm glad the Mormons have found a religion they like but do they really have to try to force it upon everyone else with the same demonic zeal as the Muslim Fantics?

On a funnier note can you folks believe a group of Mormons actually tried to get any drinks which contained Caffine to be outlawed in Utah? Apparently, Mormons believe caffine is "unpure" and good god fearing people should never consume anything which contains caffine. They there for decided there should be a law proventing anyone, including nonmormons, from buying things like coffee or Coke. Luckily this law didn't get passed by the, Mormon dominated, Utah state congress.

[Apocalypse]

Mormons aren't all bad. Read the Doom books. They can give you an interesting prespective on the religion.

[Dinner]

Oh, I have several friends who are Mormon and they are nice people. It is just the constinent attempts to convert me that I don't like.

[loinburger]

Doom books? As in, based on Doom the video game?

A group of Mormon "elders" (who looked to be in their early twenties) knocked on my door the other day and wanted to share the good news with me (or whatever term they used for it), but they hardly struck me as fanatics. My reply to them was "I'd feel guilty about wasting your time if you tried to share the good news with me because I'm a stubborn bastard and your preaching is going to fall on deaf ears" (or something equivalent to that, except maybe a bit more tactful), and they took my statement as the polite brush-off that it was and went away (rather than try to jam a foot in the door, as I'd expect a zealot or fanatic to do).

[Apocalypse]

Yes, as in based on Doom the game.

It is suppose to be kinda like a Mormon epic.

[CapitanGarlic]

Utah -- "Our Jesus is better than your Jesus."

[Hobbes]

I got with a Mormon girl.

Aside from that, I think Utah is disliked because it is like a freak island in the middle of the states; an isolationist, puritan, polygamist hideout. They disallow booze, but **** their twenty wives. A land of controversy. Like England during the middle ages. BUT, they do have some of the nicest mountain biking in the world.