Strippers in bikinis protest Ohio church

A Warsaw, Ohio church has had parishioners protest the nearby strip club, The Fox Hole. So, unwilling to bow to the religious will of the church’s angry pastor, the strippers went to the New Beginnings Ministries church and protested them right back.

The Fox Hole strip club is located approximately nine miles from the New Beginnings church, however the two groups have found themselves in a battle for Warsaw’s souls.

According to a report from the Associated Press, New Beginnings pastor Bill Dunfee said:

“As a Christian community, we cannot share territory with the devil,” Dunfee said. “Light and darkness cannot exist together, so the Fox Hole has got to go.

Fox Hole owner Tommy George offered to call off his stripper protest if Dunfee agreed to call of his church’s protests of the club. However, Dunfee refuses to relent.

The protests have taken their toll on the strip club’s business. One dancer named Laura Meske, known as “Lola” when performing on stage, has been rallying the strip club’s girls who stand to lose hundreds of dollars during each protest. The AP says:

The Fox Hole encourages customers to check out its $30 private dance special, promoting it on the kind of sign convenience stores use to advertise cheap milk and cigarettes. Out back, letters on a bulletin board have faded away so that “No touching” now reads “ouch.”

It’s here where dancers strip down to panties and pasties for cash. Meske — a tattooed mother of four — said she made $30 instead of a couple hundred dollars last Friday with the protesters outside.

“I’m not the most beautiful woman in the world,” she said. “I go out there and I try to make my money.”

There’s a whole lot more on this at the Detroit News.

I’m really not a fan of a ministry trying to impose its will upon a legal business that’s not even remotely in the vicinity of their church. Dunfee’s quote about “light and dark” is just ridiculous. While I don’t think I’d want my daughter to grow up and strip for a living, I don’t think her willingness to flash a boob to pay rent or try to improve the life of her children is going to automatically stamp her ticket to cornholing Satan. Then again, I’m not so sure I’d want to see a woman from the urban metropolis of Warsaw, Ohio in the buff since I imagine they look vaguely like one of the dead pig carcasses the guys on Myth Busters use for their field tests.

So who’s side are you on?

Bikini-clad strippers protest church [Detroit News]

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