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Just heard this on my local news.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TN_SWINGERS_CLUB_CHURCH_TNOL-?SITE=NMALJ
Apr 17, 3:43 PM EDT
Sex club converts, becomes a church in order to win approval
MADISON, Tenn. (AP) -- A group of Tennessee developers blocked from building a sex club next door to a Christian school has found a loophole allowing them to re-label the club as a church.
WSMV-TV ( http://bit.ly/1b2sUJf ) reports developers fought for months to open a swinger's club in a vacant building next to Goodpasture Christian School in Madison. The city council quickly passed a zoning amendment blocking the plans. But developers filed a new set of plans asking permission to renovate the building as a church. The plans were approved.
Goodpasture's president says the plans are identical, but a room once labeled "the dungeon" is labeled a "choir room" and a former "game room" a "fellowship hall."
Under city codes, before opening for business, the club will have to prove worship is actually taking place.
Edited:
http://www.kxxv.com/story/28888101/sex-club-seeks-nashville-blessing-by-vowing-to-be-a-church
Sex club seeks Nashville blessing by vowing to be a church
By TRAVIS LOLLER
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Nashville swingers club has undergone a conversion - it says it's now a church - in order to win city approval so it can open next to a Christian school.
The story began last fall, when a fixture in downtown Nashville called The Social Club sold its building and purchased a new one in a run-down office park several miles to the east.
The new building is geographically isolated at the end of a dead-end street, but it is near the back of Goodpasture Christian School, a large private school serving pre-school through high school children
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)You know, to represent how the roman soldiers humiliated Jesus.
Another reenactment could be the sinful people Jesus preached to. (There's debate that Mary Magdalene being described as sinful didn't originally mean that she was a prostitute. That was added later by the catholic church to tidy up the storytelling.)
Or how he rode into Jerusalem on the back of a young female donkey.
Or Jesus flogging the money-changers in the temple.
Or Judas betraying Jesus by kissing him.
Or Lucifer attempting to seduce Jesus Christ by weakening his faith into God by asking tricky questions.
You know, church-stuff.
Am I going to far here?
bvf
(6,604 posts)A few more and you could have something akin to the stations of the cross.
rurallib
(62,477 posts)or beer or other liquids that have had such a miraculous transformation
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)safeinOhio
(32,744 posts)doesn't break out between the church and school.
rurallib
(62,477 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,136 posts)Give me that old-time religion
Give me that old-time religion
Give me that old-time religion
It's good enough for me
We'll go and throw an orgy
To honor old Astarte
It'll be quite a party!
It's good enough for me
Let us worship Aphrodite
She's beautiful but flighty
She doesn't wear a nightie
But she's good enough for me!