Idaho Bans Five Wives Vodka

Do you find the name Five Wives Vodka offensive? The Idaho State Liquor Division did, and has banned the vodka from the state. “We feel Five Wives Vodka concept is offensive to a prominent segment of our population and will not be carried,” Howard Wasserstein, deputy director of the Liquor Division, explained in a letter to distributor Elite Spirits of Boise. Steve Conlin, partner and vice president of marketing at Ogden’s Own Distillery, the producer of Five Wives Vodka, found the Liquor Division decision to be “extremely misguided” if based on religious concern. “We can only presume he means Mormons,” Conlin says in a press release emailed to The Huffington Post, “Though that makes little sense as they allow Polygamy Porter from Wasatch Beers of Utah to be sold. We’re a little dumbfounded by it all”/ Emilie Ritter Saunders , StateImpact. More here.

Question: Do you agree with the decision by the Idaho Liquor Division to ban Five Wives Vodka?