Korrd, that's a great point, but it also shows you don't live in Utah. The Legislature here always spends the first 90% of their session on moral grandstanding. Often passing unconstitutional laws that cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars to unsuccessfully defend in court. And leaves the last 10% to quickly underfund boring things like necessary social services. For your amusement, here's a few of the other very important bills under consideration this session.

HB148 (aka the "abandon a sinking ship incentive program") would allow parents to spend public money on private school tuition. This despite (or because of) the fact that Utah is dead last in public school funding in the nation.

HB104 Would make all "gambling-like activities" illegal in bars and pubs, even if no actual gambling takes place. Church fund raisers however, would be exempt. This bill sends a clear message, if you want to play cards or bingo in Utah, get ye to the house of god.

HB236 Is aimed at eliminating gay-straight alliance clubs in high schools. It would reject clubs deemed to violate the "moral well-being" of students or that "involve human sexuality".


HB202 The "Ritalin bill" would make it illegal for teachers to require a student to take "psychotropic" drugs, or remove a child from parental custody for failure to take said drugs. As far as anyone knows, this has never happened, and is already forbidden by school district rules. But that is not enough to satisfy sponsors of the bill that their children will not tied to a desk and forced to drop R, then stolen by the courts to be raised by their god-hating, drug-taking, gay-loving, gambling-addicted, videogame-playing educators.

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Wow, those bills are frickin' crazy. In a bad way i mean. Essecially that last one.

See this is a lot better. Don't waste time passing unconstitutional laws. I don't really care if you denounce video game violence, so long as you don't try and stop me from making my own choices on the video games I play. By the way, does anyone know if passing a non-binding resolution actually costs money, and if so how much? If it's free, then I don't really care, but if it costs a bundle of taxpayers' money just so Wyatt can save face, then I think that this is a stupid idea.

I wonder who jack is going to sue

HAHAHA, taking bets here people. Is JT gonna blame the AG or Wyatt for this one.

so esentually they are going with a Resolution that means absolutly nothing and consists of the legislaters, basically saying "violence is bad" thus spending money to draft this resolution and acomplishing absolutly nothing

now mind you i'm aware this is better then then passing house bill 50, having it shot down in court and spending more money to pay the legal bills, but my question is whats the point of the resolution?

Oops I meant the article before this one. The one about the video game debate.

"We’d like to see several lawmakers engage in a little more consultation and exercise a little more discipline in the bills they choose to introduce."

Wow, I've been saying that for a while and I'm sort of shocked that they figured it out. Seriously, lawmakers need to get in some more consultation time with constitutionalists and researchers instead of listening to JT pop off about the ills of the video game world.

So bravo Utah! You get a gold star by your name!

Yay, a non-binding resolution! "We want to go on the record as saying we really don't like or understand video games. That is all."

All things considered, it's a much better waste of time and money than passing an unconstitutional law. Granted, they could be spending the time and money on more important and productive things, but these are politicians after all.

To quote a line from Night of the Living Dead, "That's another one for the fire."

Thanks for wating our time and money again, Jack. Next up, Massachusetts. ::Gets out the popcorn::

Might have to forward this story to the Boston Herald...

"New laws are not the answer to every little problem."

That's my thoughts exactly. We don't need to legislate every aspect of life esspecially when there was no problem to being with.