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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2013, file photo, manager Lindsay Pitts makes a mojito in the bar, which is beyond the view of patrons, in the kitchen of La Jolla Groves Restaurant, in Salt Lake City. The Mormon church has issued a sweeping defense of Utah's famously strict liquor laws, drawing a line against tourism, restaurant and bar industry advocates who have helped ease alcohol regulations in recent years. Ahead of the upcoming legislative session, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints posted to its website a hefty multimedia policy statement urging lawmakers to uphold rules that church leaders say are "closely tied to the moral culture of the state." (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2013, file photo, manager Lindsay Pitts makes a mojito in the bar which is beyond the view of patrons, in the kitchen of La Jolla Groves Restaurant, in Salt Lake City. The Mormon church has issued a sweeping defense of Utah's famously strict liquor laws, drawing a line against tourism, restaurant and bar industry advocates who have helped ease alcohol regulations in recent years. Ahead of the upcoming legislative session, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints posted to its website a hefty multimedia policy statement urging lawmakers to uphold rules that church leaders say are "closely tied to the moral culture of the state." (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2013, file photo, manager Dustin Humes fixes a drink in a small room which is out of the view of patrons at Vivace Restaurant, in Salt Lake City. The Mormon church has issued a sweeping defense of Utah's famously strict liquor laws, drawing a line against tourism, restaurant and bar industry advocates who have helped ease alcohol regulations in recent years. Ahead of the upcoming legislative session, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints posted to its website a hefty multimedia policy statement urging lawmakers to uphold rules that church leaders say are "closely tied to the moral culture of the state." (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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A photo released by the Archdiocese of Detroit is a 2002, photo of Timothy Murray. Inactive Roman Catholic priest Murray returns to federal court Thursday Jan. 23, 2014, for setencing after pleading guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography. (AP Photo/Archdiocese of Detroit)
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Christian Niccum, front, and Jayson Terdiman, of the US, speed down the ice channel during the doubles luge World Cup in Altenberg, eastern Germany, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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**FILE** Then-Sen. Barack Obama (right) is dressed as a Somali Elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan during his visit in 2006 to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. (Associated Press)
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