Polynesians Denied Service at Utah Bar

WTF is going on here???

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/polynesian-men-say-they-were-denied-service-bar-because-race-n521056

This sucks.

Tough to respond to without getting involved with politics and religion, but I will say I don't think I would personally ever "enjoy" a night of bar hopping in Utah.

I was in Salt Lake City a few years ago to start off a vacation in the Wyoming backcountry. We didn't really bar-hop. We did drink, and we enjoyed time in one quite large dancing/drinking establishment, and once had dinner in a restaurant where they served alcoholic beverages. Utah is much more low-key, and at the time some drinking establishments required that you buy a "membership" in order to drink. Our hotel had a membership, and their marketing person came with us, and we had beers and cocktails under her membership. The place made us very welcome, and I'm sure we racked up a decent bar tab. I don't know if that's still required. We also bought beer at a local gas station, and there were times when purchases of alcohol were prohibited. But they weren't a dry city by any means, you just had to learn the rules and you'd be ok. And the non-Mormon population is growing, so it's not accurate to think of Utah as a purely religious and puritanical state. There are a lot of cool folks there, and they are co-existing fairly well with the conservative nature of the state. I want to go back and bar-hop just to check it out, and repeat what was a memorable vacation in Wyoming on horseback.