The story's from the small town of Warsaw, Ohio (link at bottom -- no pictures, unfortunately, so I used one of my trusty Bikini Car Wash pics above. I gotta give ya "art," after all!). It seems that members of a local fundamentalist Christian church, New Beginnings Ministries, have been picketing the local strip joint (called The Fox Hole) for three straight months (which does take some real dedication). Finally having enough of that, the strippers (clad in bikinis) hit the church grounds during Sunday services for a little protesting of their own!The ladies reportedly toted their own signs "adapted from scripture," such as one that read, "Do unto others as you would have done on to you." One stripper, "Lola" ("stage age 36 but really 42" -- I had never heard of the concept of "stage age" before!), brought her own sign that read, "Jesus loves the children of the world!"
And get a load of this kooky church preacher, Bill Dunfee: He reportedly "believes that a higher power has tasked him with shutting down the strip club." Says Reverend Right-Winger: "As a Christian community, we cannot share territory with the Devil. Light and darkness cannot exist together, so the Fox Hole has got to go." Based on such sentiments, Pastor Sourpus has refused an offer from the Fox Hole's owner to cease the stripper protests if the church will also back down on its incessant picketing. No word whether this Deacon of the Dorks or any of his "flock" have yet taken up any of the strippers on the Fox Hole's 30-buck lap dance special during the Sunday morning protests at the church.
BTW, I recently in this space expressed my opposition to the building of the Ground Zero Mosque (and any place of worship, for that matter) in the Ground Zero vicinity. That makes me (and 65-70% of my fellow Americans) an Islamophobe in the eyes of the American far left. I also have problems with a lot of the stuff I hear spewed by fundamentalist Christians all the time. Does that make me also a Fundamentaphobe? Works for me.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100827/D9HROVM00.html
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Postscript: I have to give credit to the bottom part of the Drudge Report: It's so often good for some wacky story that I can work with. The New York Post as well, although I do hate being too overly reliant on either one of those of sites. But when there's nothing better, those are a couple of the places where I always head to check 'em out.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great story, way to to strippers - this is hilarious! BTW, I am a huge Fundamentaphobe....I make no bones about it.
ReplyDeleteThere is an asymmetrical problem here. While the Church protesters might keep people out of the strip club, the Stripper protesters are likely to draw more people to the Church. It just seems unfair. Out of a sense of basic fairness, and to restore some equity here - I'd encourage everyone to patronize a strip club tonight.
ReplyDeleteHolly, I have a lot of phobes. Democrataphobe, republicanaphobe, jayhawkeraphobe, tunafishaphobe, chickflickaphobe. I could go on all night.
ReplyDeleteMW, that's an interesting point, and not fully covered in the story: I recall the story did talk about how the church pickets at the strip joint have reduced the club's patronage, but I don't recall anything in the article about whether there has been a jump in church attendance (which I would assume there has been) as a result of the stripper protests. No wonder that loony preacher refuses to make any deals to back off! Maybe there is a certain method to his madness!
So, could the strip club sue the church for the loss of business? Strip clubs are legal, if you don't like them, then don't go! Just a thought. I guess the church could turn around and sue the club claiming that they aren't getting in the offerings they used to due to decreased attendance....If they're getting more offerings, then I think the strip club might have a case! ha! I'm kidding of course....I'm definitely not in favor of frivilous lawsuits.
ReplyDeleteHolly, In my experience you can try suing someone for just about anything, and too much of the time, B.S. lawsuits will actually escape dismissal and progress much farther than they should. But in this instance, any lawsuit would be running straight up against the First Amendment. We have a very powerful First Amendment right to stand on public sidewalks and express ourselves in almost any way in which we see fit. In a lot of contexts and locations, our First Amendment rights are subject to what courts have found to be reasonable time, place and manner restrictions, but not nearly so much on public sidewalks. One is about as free there as any place there is.
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