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Topless dancers protest outside Ohio church for its opposition to strip clubs
LIFE SITE NEWS ^ | Ben Johnson

Posted on 08/13/2014 1:30:25 PM PDT by Morgana

A half-dozen strippers paraded topless outside a rural Ohio church as its parishioners entered and exited this Sunday as a counterprotest to the church's efforts to close their business.

A total of 30 dancers, friends, fellow employees, and strip industry executives gathered outside New Beginnings Ministries in Warsaw, Ohio, on Sunday, the second week the sex workers protested the evangelical church's strong moral stance.

The church, which has about 125 members in a city of 700, has protested the Foxhole North, located just nine miles down the road from its sanctuary, for years.

Thomas George who owns that location and the Foxhole South in the southeastern Ohio city of Zanesville, tried to get a legal injunction that would prevent church members from protesting within one mile of his business.

The evangelical church regularly holds prayer vigils outside the tiny, nondescript club, offering its employees God's love and a better life. Pastor Bill Dunfee said he regularly spoke with strippers. “I told them I will put a roof over their heads, their bills will be paid and their children’s stomachs will be full,” he said.

He added that at least one employee has left the industry as a result of his church's outreach.

But George told the Coshocton Tribune that the protestors' behavior was “not Christian-like, not what I read in my Bible.”

The previous weekend, about 14 people protested outside the Warsaw church. Dunfee told the Zanesville Times Recorder at that time that one dancer exposed herself to a woman who belongs to his fellowship.

The business faced no fines, since courts have interpreted Ohio statutory law as allowing men and women to go topless, requiring only that the lower half of their bodies be covered. Advertisement

This weekend, the church instructed its members - especially women and children - to come through the back entrance, behind a tarp that shielded them from the topless protesters.

As the bare-chested women marched down the sidewalk in front of the church, strategically raising and lowering their signs, members of the church sang "Amazing Grace" and marched backwards in front of them, holding up signs that blocked their breasts from public view. One of the church's signs said simply, "Lust is Sin."

Among those who took part in the latest protest is Greg Flaig, the executive director of Owners Coalition, a coalition of strip club owners which says its goal is to "improve the Adult business images in Ohio.”

The topless protests have been widely reported, stretching from the small Ohio town to the New York Daily News and USA Today.

The group's tactics are reminiscent of Femen, a group of women who protest topless, and often in a violent fashion, in favor of abortion-on-demand and homosexuality in Europe. The Ukrainian-based organization was first led by Viktor Svyatski, who hand-picked the most attractive women for maximum propaganda effect.

Its members attacked the Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela, in February, pelting him with – in their words – “a rain of panties soaked with the blood of our illegal abortions.”

The bare-breasted women also assaulted the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium, Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard, last April over his views of homosexuality. Archbishop Leonard humbly knelt and prayed as the angry activists doused him with water.

Dunfee has vowed not to back down, instead saying he will address the protests during Sunday School next week. The protests are “shameful,” he said, and only serve to strengthen his ministry and his efforts to stop the sex industry's inroads in Ohio. Advertisement


TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: church; femen; moralabsolutes; porn; protesters; sick; strippers
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To: Doomonyou; GeronL

Facts you don’t know about most strippers.

Most have drug problems.

They have children to care for

99% have been sexually abused at some point in their life.

Most of their money goes to some man at home who is not their husband.

They suffer from depression, many commit suicide.

Many become lesbian because of the way men treat them, even though they were not lesbian when they entered the business of being a stripper.

wonder life NOT.


21 posted on 08/13/2014 1:42:12 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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22 posted on 08/13/2014 1:42:48 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Morgana

If they close the strip bar, where will the Saudi businessmen go for entertainment?


23 posted on 08/13/2014 1:44:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Morgana

That little church might get full in the next couple of weeks from men getting a desire to want to goto church all of the sudden.


24 posted on 08/13/2014 1:47:50 PM PDT by ReformedBeckite (1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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To: Morgana

I don’t have any scientic basis, but based on my experience with the scrabbly side of life, I’d bet you were right.


25 posted on 08/13/2014 1:48:44 PM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: Huskrrrr
Hopefully none the men in the church were recognized by the strippers.

Years ago, when I lived in East Texas, a technique utilized by anti-strip club protestors was to videotape patrons as they left the club. Today that could be done quite easily and then uploaded to the net. Sure cut down on married men visiting the establishment and reducing the income of places like this is cutting off their life blood.

26 posted on 08/13/2014 1:49:36 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: Morgana

Luckily it was a church and not a mosque .... could have been some serious stoning or heads could have rolled!


27 posted on 08/13/2014 1:50:04 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (His Arrogance would love to replace John Kerry-Heinz but all the trained monkeys turned him down.)
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To: jalisco555

I’ve always wondered why they call these establishments “gentlemen’s clubs”...

BTW, re: this comment, “The Ukrainian-based organization was first led by Viktor Svyatski, who hand-picked the most attractive women for maximum propaganda effect.”
How come Monster.com never carries job openings like this?


28 posted on 08/13/2014 1:51:56 PM PDT by Exeter (Thad Cochran, at 78 Mississippi's newest Democrat Senator...)
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To: Huskrrrr
Hopefully none the men in the church were recognized by the strippers.

Why do you assume that only the men might have gone to the strip club? A rather sexist attitude, no? ; )

29 posted on 08/13/2014 1:53:50 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: driftdiver
Our pastor took out bottles of cold water to them and they didnt stick around long.

Outstanding!
30 posted on 08/13/2014 1:59:55 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Morgana

There goes my summer job for next year.


31 posted on 08/13/2014 2:01:51 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Morgana

bump

sad lives


32 posted on 08/13/2014 2:07:02 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: dfwgator; GeronL
"If they close the strip bar, where will the Saudi businessmen go for entertainment?" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Back to Arabia with their 4 wives!!! burka photo: burka image0011-1.jpg where they belong!
33 posted on 08/13/2014 2:14:48 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

bump


34 posted on 08/13/2014 2:15:11 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Morgana

It’s very sad. Most of them don’t like men very much.


35 posted on 08/13/2014 2:21:37 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Fido969; Salvation; NYer; narses
Pray for these women. I do mean this. You can't imagine their pain, loneliness, desolation. Where they are in life is so bad they will trust the owners of that club over the Christians in that church because they have been so hurt, abused and have lost their sense of direction in life. Do you understand what I am trying to tell you? They need prayer and compassion. tears photo: tears tears-2.jpg
36 posted on 08/13/2014 2:28:58 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana
Among those who took part in the latest protest is Greg Flaig, the executive director of Owners Coalition, a coalition of strip club owners which says its goal is to "improve the Adult business images in Ohio.”

Yeah genius, having your strippers engage in a topless protest in front of a church is a BRILLIANT strategy for improving the image of adult businesses.

37 posted on 08/13/2014 2:32:15 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: VRWCmember

lol

exactly. a great point


38 posted on 08/13/2014 2:35:26 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: VRWCmember
"Yeah genius, having your strippers engage in a topless protest in front of a church is a BRILLIANT strategy for improving the image of adult businesses. " fail treadmil photo: Treadmil fail th1282112933-409.gif The stupid it BURNS.
39 posted on 08/13/2014 2:39:17 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: VRWCmember

TTIUWP.

I’m sorry. I tried to stop...

5.56mm


40 posted on 08/13/2014 2:41:54 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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