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Sean's Opening Story: Talk about a "tit for tat" protest ...

Yes ... I am very proud of my heading on this story :) Some of the residents of Warsaw, Ohio in t...
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13.53 15 Sep 2014


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Sean's Opening Story:...

Sean's Opening Story: Talk about a "tit for tat" protest ...

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13.53 15 Sep 2014


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Yes ... I am very proud of my heading on this story :)

Some of the residents of Warsaw, Ohio in the US have an original way of airing their grievances.

Topless dancers at an Ohio strip club went on the offensive last week, baring their breasts in front of a church where congregants have protested their presence for years.

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Members of the New Beginnings Ministries have campaigned against the presence of the Foxhole North gentleman's club for nearly a decade.  The local paper, the Coshocton Tribune said the religious members would picket the venue on weekends and photograph guests' license plates.

In turn, the protest of the church involved six bare-breasted women who marched from a street corner to the edge of the church parking lot; two women remained topless for most of the demonstration, which involved about 30 people who sat across the street from the church or walked around holding signs, the newspaper reported.

The club owner Thomas George told The Associated Press that four years ago, club dancers in bikinis protested and held signs outside the church, but that didn’t stop the church from picketing his business.

“I don’t have a problem with people expressing their First Amendment rights, but at what point does it become harassment,” said George, who apologized to the public and other churches for yesterday’s protest. “But they backed us in a corner, and we have no recourse at law.”

The church’s pastor, the Rev. Bill Dunfee, told the Tribune recently that church members will persist in opposing the club. “We know what we’re doing is working,” Dunfee said.


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