{"id":8936,"date":"2013-01-27T10:05:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T17:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=8936"},"modified":"2015-02-17T11:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:15:20","slug":"strip-club-owner-to-nuns-dont-impose-your-religious-beliefs-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2013\/01\/strip-club-owner-to-nuns-dont-impose-your-religious-beliefs-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Strip Club Owner to Nuns: Don’t Impose Your Religious Beliefs on Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The strip club and the nuns story<\/a> has gone on for a while and it appears it will continue. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to the city government of Stone Park, Il, the community of the Missionary Sisters of St Charles Boromeo Scalabrinians now have a strip club two feet from their property.<\/p>\n

As we all know, the current reply to any request for official consideration or civil rights for Christians is to tell them to \u201cstop putting their religious bigotry on other people.\u201d We are told to keep our faith at home, to practice it at church and then to keep our mouths shut everywhere else.
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\nThe owner of the strip club is no exception to this charming behavior. His advice to the sisters? Keep your religion to yourselves, and oh, by the way, I pay taxes and you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Of course, none of this addresses the question of why the strip club owner wanted to put his \u201cbusiness\u201d next to a convent in the first place. It also doesn\u2019t address why the city planning commission went along with it. Stone Park\u2019s mayor claims that the process was legal, but that does not in any way explain why this permit to build was approved.<\/p>\n

We have a whole town, called Valley Brook<\/a>, here in Oklahoma that some people believe makes its revenue from prostitution under the guise of strip clubs.<\/p>\n

Why do elected officials deliberately corrupt and degrade the cities they are supposed to be working to build and govern? What would motivate them to turn their statutes into open doors for the lowest kind of commerce? Why would anyone think that putting these kinds of things into neighborhoods and next to convents is a good idea?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had to pass laws at the state level here in Oklahoma to keep them from putting these places across the street from grade schools. The upward-looking elected officials in Valley Brook must have used a measuring tape to make sure they built their school as close to the strip joints as they could without going over the line.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an interesting world we live in where elected officials work to further the interests of the lowest common denominator in their society. It\u2019s an even more interesting world when people who degrade and sell women as if they were chattel can lecture a group of nuns and tell them their viewpoints are unworthy because they are Christians.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would call that world soul-sick and depraved. But then, I\u2019m used to being told to keep my faith at home where it belongs. It no longer bothers me.<\/p>\n

The Chicago Sun-Times article describing this situation says in part: (emphasis mine)<\/p>\n

Proposed strip club to nuns: Don\u2019t impose your religious beliefs on us<\/strong>
\nBY STEFANO ESPOSITO Staff Reporter sesposito@suntimes.com<\/p>\n

The owner of a soon-to-be-built strip club in the western suburb of Stone Park has this to say to a group of neighboring nuns who don\u2019t like his plans: Mind your own business.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a legal, tax-paying citizen of this community, we ask only to be judged fairly by what we have done and not through the recent religious fervor,\u201d Bob Itzkow, the club\u2019s owner, said in statement released Friday. \u201cIn reference to our non-tax-paying neighbors, we ask that you treat us as we have treated you, by not trying to unduly disturb us by imposing your religious beliefs on us or others.<\/strong> All throughout our plans for this project, we\u2019ve followed the letter and spirit of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo, who occupy the property next to the club, have moral objections to the project and have raised questions about whether the rules were followed properly by Stone Park officials during the 2010 approval process.(Read more here<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The strip club and the nuns story has gone on for a while and it appears it will continue. Thanks to the city government of Stone Park, Il, the community of the Missionary Sisters of St Charles Boromeo Scalabrinians now have a strip club two feet from their property. 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