{"id":124339,"date":"2014-06-18T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/?p=124339"},"modified":"2014-08-29T13:31:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T17:31:34","slug":"nuns-strippers-and-the-never-boring-godbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/2014\/06\/nuns-strippers-and-the-never-boring-godbeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuns, strippers and the never-boring Godbeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Sister Mary Clarence could totally fix this: Nuns file suit over noisy strip club next door: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/9JTlzgJO3i\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/9JTlzgJO3i<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/kyLz0ISk0F\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/kyLz0ISk0F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Eckstrom (@KevinEckstrom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinEckstrom\/statuses\/479262353293180929\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Two words: nuns, strippers. AP colleague on this irresistible story also touching on zoning law, strip club rights: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/n0ZhByigSh\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/n0ZhByigSh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Tarm \/ AP (@mtarm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtarm\/statuses\/479337060743274496\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Suburban nuns step up fight against neighboring strip club: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/AafNZVN0G5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/AafNZVN0G5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcphilrogers\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@nbcphilrogers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/JlEB9BjqUN\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JlEB9BjqUN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC5 Investigates (@NBC5Investigate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBC5Investigate\/statuses\/476208535353573377\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Put another one in the \u201cGodbeat sure ain\u2019t boring\u201d file.<\/p>\n<p>I first read about the dispute between a group of Chicago-area nuns and a neighboring strip club <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/chi-nuns-sue-strip-club-saying-its-too-close-to-convent-20140616,0,603781.story\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">in the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of nuns is suing to shut down a strip club next to their convent in Stone Park that the sisters say keeps them awake at night.<\/p>\n<p>The Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo Scalabrinians say in the suit that Club Allure has ruined their peace with blinking neon lights and loud thumping music. The nuns say they have witnessed drunken fights and found condoms littering the area.<\/p>\n<p>The suit, filed against the club and the village of Stone Park, states that the club violates a state law against operating adult entertainment within 1,000 feet of a school or place of worship. The club is also near houses, and three neighbors have joined the suit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think most people would find that offensive, to put a strip club next to a home for sisters,\u201d said Peter Breen, attorney for the Thomas More Society, a nonprofit law firm that filed the suit on behalf of the nuns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Tribune<\/em> offers a straightforward, non-cheeky account of the conflict, highlighting the nuns\u2019 concerns, the tricky legal issues involved and the strip club\u2019s response \u2014 all in less than 450 words.<\/p>\n<p>The paper even provides a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/chi-pdf-nuns-lawsuit-strip-club-20140616,0,546138.htmlpage\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">link to the lawsuit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All three sources quoted \u2014 one each on behalf of the nuns, the municipality and the strip club \u2014 are attorneys. While that is entirely proper and journalistically sound, I found myself wishing I could hear directly from a nun. Or even a stripper.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Chicago Sun-Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/28120635-418\/nuns-file-suit-to-close-stone-park-strip-club.html#.U6Hjoo1dXbA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">did quote a nun<\/a> (although I\u2019d rank its overall story below the quality of the <em>Tribune\u2019s<\/em>):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sister Noemia Silva, who resides at the convent, said she\u2019s \u201cappalled\u201d that Stone Park rezoned the property to allow the strip club to open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur sisters\u2019 sacred space has been invaded,\u201d she said. \u201cAt night now they hear the music when they\u2019re praying. That\u2019s uncalled for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at the children who go to school in the area, they have to pass thhough here in front of the convent and there\u2019s whiskey bottles and what have you broken.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And in a follow-up out today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/d8952ce7fdaf47f1b06ed4e62a4a3d27\/IL--Nuns-Strip-Club\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Associated Press reports<\/a> that the nuns plan to march on the strip club:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>STONE PARK, Ill.<\/strong> \u2014 A group of nuns seeking to force a strip club next door to their convent to close is poised to march on the establishment to show what anyone who went to Catholic school already knows: They mean business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur sisters are trying to pray, and you just hear the thump, thump, thump\u201d of loud music coming from the strip club, said Sister Noemia Silva of the Sisters of St. Charles. Silva said nearly two dozen nuns and others planned to march Wednesday afternoon on nearby Club Allure Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Silva and the convent\u2019s attorney said the march will show the public just how close the club is and that any argument the club might make claiming it is not disrupting their way of life is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go into the retired sisters\u2019 chapel and see these little elderly sisters hunched over praying turn around and you can literally see the rear of this strip club,\u201d said Peter Breen, the attorney. \u201cThis is an insult to them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beyond the zoning laws involved, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/06\/17\/love-thy-neighbor-nuns-su_n_5503483.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">earlier AP rewrite<\/a> of media reports on the lawsuit hits at a potential religious liberty question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the Bible says, \u201cYou shall love your neighbor as yourself,\u201d the manager of the club said the nuns are not being very neighborly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spent an awful lot of money to make sure that this kind of thing would not occur,\u201d Club Allure manager Robert Itzkow told WMAQ-TV. \u201cThe whole thing is just a question of \u2018we don\u2019t like you; you don\u2019t conform to our religious beliefs.'\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Mary Clarence could totally fix this: Nuns file suit over noisy strip club next door: http:\/\/t.co\/9JTlzgJO3i pic.twitter.com\/kyLz0ISk0F \u2014 Kevin Eckstrom (@KevinEckstrom) June 18, 2014 Two words: nuns, strippers. AP colleague on this irresistible story also touching on zoning law, strip club rights: http:\/\/t.co\/n0ZhByigSh \u2014 Michael Tarm \/ AP (@mtarm) June 18, 2014 Suburban nuns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,25,6,7,18,12,49,4],"tags":[811,1819,1272,190,3400,1607,3399],"class_list":["post-124339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-catholicism","category-godbeat","category-journalism","category-people","category-religion","category-sex","category-social-issues","tag-associated-press","tag-chicago-sun-times","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-lawsuits","tag-missionary-sisters-of-st-charles-borromeo-scalabrinians","tag-nuns","tag-strip-clubs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nuns, strippers and the never-boring Godbeat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sister Mary Clarence could totally fix this: Nuns file suit over noisy strip club next door: http:\/\/t.co\/9JTlzgJO3i pic.twitter.com\/kyLz0ISk0F&mdash;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/2014\/06\/nuns-strippers-and-the-never-boring-godbeat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nuns, strippers and the never-boring Godbeat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sister Mary Clarence could totally fix this: Nuns file suit over noisy strip club next door: http:\/\/t.co\/9JTlzgJO3i pic.twitter.com\/kyLz0ISk0F&mdash;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/2014\/06\/nuns-strippers-and-the-never-boring-godbeat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GetReligion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-06-18T20:00:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-08-29T17:31:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bobby Ross Jr.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bobby Ross Jr.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/2014\/06\/nuns-strippers-and-the-never-boring-godbeat\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/2014\/06\/nuns-strippers-and-the-never-boring-godbeat\/\",\"name\":\"Nuns, strippers and the never-boring Godbeat\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-06-18T20:00:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-08-29T17:31:34+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/#\/schema\/person\/d54e0199e18cd5740a11902f7217ea10\"},\"description\":\"Sister Mary Clarence could totally fix this: Nuns file suit over noisy strip club next door: http:\/\/t.co\/9JTlzgJO3i pic.twitter.com\/kyLz0ISk0F&mdash;\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/2014\/06\/nuns-strippers-and-the-never-boring-godbeat\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/2014\/06\/nuns-strippers-and-the-never-boring-godbeat\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/2014\/06\/nuns-strippers-and-the-never-boring-godbeat\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nuns, strippers and the never-boring Godbeat\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/getreligion\/\",\"name\":\"GetReligion\",\"description\":\"&quot;The press . . . just doesn&#039;t get religion.&quot; 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