As I recall, when this first hit the fan back then and was in all the papers, the people of Utah were actually against it for just this reason--the theocracy is rearing its ugly head and dictating to the public at large how their behavior must follow the doctrine dictated by the church. But we all know that the public officials caved in under threat of either excommunication or the threat of being voted out of office by dictates of the church elders to their voting members (and we know how that works now, don't we?) and relinquished rights of the people to be free of religious persecution in order to keep their own well-paying jobs.