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Sometimes you can’t write humor this good. Because sometimes the strippers in small towns actually go out to protest in bikinis outside of a church in Ohio, a hotbed of stripper controversy. Believe it! ABC reports:
The strippers, fueled by Cheetos and nicotine, are protesting a fundamentalist Christian church whose Bible-brandishing congregants have picketed the club where they work. The dancers roll up with signs carrying messages adapted from Scripture, such as “Do unto others as you would have done unto you,” to counter church members who for four years have photographed license plates of patrons and asked them if their mothers and wives know their whereabouts.
Now, I grew up in a fairly small town that was both conservative and religious. My hometown definitely wasn’t as small as Warsaw, Ohio (the article gives this description: “New Beginnings is one of four churches in this one-traffic-light village of 900 people, 60 miles outside Columbus. There’s one gas station and a sit-down restaurant that serves country staples like mashed potatoes with gravy and Salisbury steak.”), but there was only one bar and absolutely no strip clubs. If someone were to start a strip club there, I can imagine a similar response from the local religious leaders. So, I actually love that there are actively replying to the church leaders (remember how they photographed license plates?!). Not that I’m defending the glorious art of stripping, but their business is actually suffering because of the protests (in an already tough business environment, as we have heard). It’s not as if the strip club is right outside the church or anything. There are nine miles (apparently of cornfields) between the two, and the church that is next to the club doesn’t have any problem with it (or at least they’re not protesting its existence).
Maybe this is twisted, but I kind of love imagining how the two groups of people interact. What do you think the churchgoers say to the strippers in bikinis on their way into Sunday service? What do you think the strippers say? Do the mothers cover the eyes of their young boys? See what I mean? Fascinating!
What do you think of the stripper/church protest battle? And will anything actually come to fruition?
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I think it’s totally fucked to be harassed every single day you go to work for four years.
Well, I’ll defend the fine art of stripping, and say that the church needs to fuck off. I’m pretty sure there has to be something illegal with the photography of license plates, too; wait! did blackmail become legal recently? I thought not. Once again, the Church shows is it will do its damndest to prove that they can judge the crap out of everyone but themselves.
Sorry Erin, but the photographing of licese plates is legal. Only reason I know is that I grew up in a smaller Ohio town and the bible thumpers used to do this to people entering the local porn shop.
Used to make quite a few interesting front page headlines. I think the porn shop prevailed though.
*so much for my typing skills
Eek. That surprises me.
Honestly, though, if someone were to photograph my license plate as I went into a sex shop, I would honestly be more inclined to go just to piss people off. I’m not embarrassed of my own vagina or making it feel happy.
“I’m not embarrassed of my own vagina or making it feel happy.”
I kind of want that on a tshirt.
Hehehe must get that copyrighted immediately!
This is like that Simpsons episode where Marge and the other church goers wanted to close down the Maison Derrière, Springfield’s very own variety club, and they all end up singing about how good it is. Eventually, they don’t close it down (Marge demolishes it accidentally — beautiful). I tried to find a link to youtube but there are no videos of the actual episode. Shame!
http://www.watch-simpsons-online.net/Watch_The_Simpsons_Online_Season_8_Episode_5_Bart_After_Dark.html
Searched and found that.
I live outside Columbus and Warsaw is incredibly small. One of the things that really pisses me off is the church said something about how the strippers are “tempting the men to be unfaithful to their wives.” Yeah, that’s the stripper’s fault you morons. Apparently if there were no strip clubs there would be no infidelity.
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I love how the strippers are counter protesting. I live an hour south of columbus and we have the same problem with a church group and the women’s clinic (performs abortions, but also helps women in need get medical care). My fiance used to be a security guard at this women’s clinic and the stories he told me were awful. They had all sort of signs with dead babies on them and a car covered in pictures of dead babies with baby dolls tied to the bumper. My fiance had to escort the women to and from their cars, and as his did this they would scream at the women that they were whores, baby killers, and tell them that they would burn in hell. They also photographed the women’s cars and license plates so they could possibly catch up to them at a later date. I can’t tell you how many times my fiance was puked on because the women were so upset and crying so hard.
I think this kind of behavior should be discouraged and counter protested. Maybe not in the way the strippers have by showing up outside the church in bikinis, but I think the signs that say do unto others that you would have done unto you are a good idea. I think it’s disgusting that people can not go to work or have a medical procedure or buy porn without being harrassed and threatened.
I mean, I’m a pretty staunch atheist, but it’s not like I drive down to the creation museum every day and take pictures of people’s license plates to add them to the list of undesirables in my atheist empire, scream at people that god doesn’t exist and they’re going to rot in the ground while wearing this t-shirt:http://tshirtslayer.com/files-tshirt/imagecache/shirtview/046_0.JPG. No, I don’t do that because it’s disrespectful. I would like the same respect: do unto others as you would have done unto you.
Is it bad that your atheistic counter-protest made me giggle vindictively?
No, that’s not bad. It’s bad that I kind of want to do it for the lulz, haha
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WWJD??????? He would go to the titty bar with me? And everyone knows the best thing about picking up stippers or hooker with Jesus right??? When shit gets real crazy after a bottle of gin and 10 bumps of coke, he can resurrect the ones you “accidentally” choke to death. HOSANA IN THE HIGHEST BITCHES!
YES! I love this guy!