Utah town to lift bikini ban

It seems like this week there's been a disproportionate number of entries here about stuff being banned. Now finally something is being unbanned!

Kanab, Utah, has a law against wearing bikinis at the city swimming pool. The city called the swimwear too revealing. I swear I'm not making this up. When I first saw that the town had this ordinance, I thought it was some relic from the 1890s. But actually the law had passed just this year!

Did they expect people to wear bonnets and gray dresses at the pool?

Many locals got a good laugh, but to tourists who planned on patronizing the pool, it was no laughing matter.

But now the city plans to lift the bikini ban.

To give you an idea of how conservative Kanab is, city council in 2006 passed a resolution encouraging women to stay at home instead of finding a job. You read that right: 2006!

This reminds me of a story around 1990 in which a city in my area refused to build a swimming pool at the city park unless there were separate pools for men and women. (They claimed a pool for both genders would lead to "immorality.")

(Source: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gaZ0GBLTJJN-jh0AR_KPbiye8hAQD918GUG80;
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9506010)