Two Day Magazine

The lovely ladies who dance at the Foxhole strip club in Ohio just won’t take it anymore! For the past four years, these hard working women have had to endure members of a Christian church protesting their existence and condemning them to hell every single weekend.

Pastor Bill Dunfee of New Beginnings Ministries leads the protests with a blow horn and signs with bible verses written on them. He even has taken his protests so far as to photograph the license plates of the customers’ cars outside of the Foxhole Gentlemen’s Club and posted them on their website to intimidate the people who frequent the club.

The owner of the Foxhole, Tommy George, had even sued the Church to stop them from photographing cars, but lost on the grounds of free speech. How does photographing license plates for the sole purpose of intimidation and harassment stand protected under the guise of free speech? Seems strange to me.

To even the playing field, George and his dancers have decided to start staging protests of their own outside of this church on Sunday, August 8, 2010. Dancers showed up wearing bikinis and carrying signs of their own that read:

“If Pastor Bill is my ticket to HEAVEN, I’d rather be in HELL with my friends.”

“Matthew 7:15: Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing.”

Here’s a few more slogans that I think these ladies would appreciate:

“You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.” (Rom 2:1 NIV)

“And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the plank in your own eye?” (Luke 6:41-42 NKJV)

Come on, Pastor Bill! We know the real reason you harass the women and owner of the strip club next door. You secretly love strippers and you are so repressed and angry over your love of women dancing on stage you can’t stop yourself from protesting those lovely ladies and damning them to hell. We know that secretly you are afraid of the sexual power that women hold and so you wish to extinguish it as quickly as possible. No need to stress, Bill. If the women who work at the Foxhole are interested in learning more about your church or Jesus, all they have to do is walk next door and join your service.

By condemning those which he wishes to “save” he is only creating more division, more anger, and escalating the situation. I would like to go out on a limb and say that most (not all) women who work at a strip club already feel as though they have run out of options or feel ostracized by society as it is. What kind of god does Pastor Bill represent that would condone the harassment of women working? Instead of showing up every Sunday to vilify women just trying to survive, why not do something positive? He could start a women’s college fund at his church and have a fundraiser to raise money for young girls who can’t afford to get a higher education. All Pastor Bill is doing is stirring the pot, upsetting patrons of the Foxhole and embarrassing the women that work there.

Gee, doesn’t that sound like an organization you’re just dying to join? Move on, Bill! (And take your blow horn with you.)