Not everyone in a bar is there to get drunk, although the article seems to shift between portraying this as an atmosphere of self-control and one of blatant drunkenness. I've seen a man come back to the church after a long period of being lost in extremely serious sin by coming to one of these meetings and meeting our bishop. An atmosphere was created in which that man was comfortable admitting his sins in public and coming for spiritual help. It was a beautiful thing.
People that are in bars usually find there way to GOD eventually, The Clergy is not going to speed up the process any faster by being in the bar too...