Clara's weak justification to support this is based on counties and towns being dry, not allowing liquor to be sold which is probably a religious reasoning. The hole in her theory is that in the case of dry counties or towns (I lived in one) is that ALL establishments of this type were disallowed. The se counties or towns are not singling out ONE business based on the comments of one man.
May she is being contrary just to argue.
You left out the precedent and my statement that "community standards" is a recognized successful legal argument in local matters even when the federal government is affected. Local governments have always had that power, and what's novel is your interpretation.