Teri started it.
Teri Lussier in Huber Heights started it on her TheBrickRanch.com site just because it made her laugh. I thought the hullabaloo was over Dayton area strip-clubs because the fella with the funny line about givng bagels to a Columbus food pantry is a Dayton area strip-club owner. I wrote Mid Ohio FoodBank scores bagels
Nooooooo it's over proposed state law, Senate Bill 16, now in the state house of representatives. It passed in the senate 24 to 8, I believe. Some say Senate Bill 16 is not constitutional.
Fighting the law proposed by the conservative Cincinnati based 'Citizens for Community Values' is now the cause of the nonprofit civil-liberties group 'Progress Ohio', taking the side of the dancers.
Mary McCarty staff writer for the Dayton Daily News wrote of the group 'Dancers for Democracy':
"Set aside your feelings about strip clubs and ask yourselves: How is this not a violation of free speech? Not to mention a colossal waste of our legislators' time in a state that has so many other pressing issues."
"That puts me in the uncomfortable position of siding with the strip-club owners. But let's look at it another way: I'm taking the side of the First Amendment."
It's all I could do not to title this post something about Ohio being the butt of jokes but "Strippers from across Ohio want to get something off their chests." was the first line one out of state TV stations internet site used. The Virginia site had it under "Strange News"
Zoning laws are often used to fight strip-clubs on a local level fixing where adult businesses may be located within the community, away from residential areas. I can't even remember the name of the strip-club that opened in Worthington on E. Wilson Bridge Rd. a block from my office. It's been gone for over five years now I believe. What a hullabaloo when it opened.
I also wrote She's a Brick House about the issue...kinda except, it's really about brick houses.
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