MADISON, Tenn. -- 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.
CBS affiliate WTVF reports that developers fought for months to open a swinger's club in a vacant building next to Goodpasture Christian School in Madison, about 8 miles north of downtown Nashville. 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.
WTVF reports that recently filed documents with the Metro Codes Administration show the group "Freedom 4 All, Inc" now plans to renovate the building to be a church called the United Fellowship Center. A Google search of United Fellowship Center Nashville takes you to The Social Club's website.
thefanciestcat on June 12nd, 2017 at 06:32 UTC »
I think the simplest way to handle things like this is to not allow businesses that children cannot enter within a certain radius. It checks the important boxes without targeting any one behavior unfairly, injecting religious bias, stigmatizing sex, etc.
This reminds me of a school where I did a job earlier this year. It was clearly in a low income neighborhood and was located between two major freeways, under the path of flights arriving at a major international airport and bordered by a mix of industrial businesses (each with their own noise and smell). To add insult to industry, there was a rundown sex shop with an arcade across directly across the street from the school, and the school had to plant a row of cypress trees to try and hide it. It's interesting what working class people are expected to put up with in America.
Triunn on June 12nd, 2017 at 03:55 UTC »
I live in Madison, TN about 5 minutes away from this... it got raided and shut down.
Assclown_wrangler on June 12nd, 2017 at 01:45 UTC »
"the club will have to prove worship is actually taking place."
Almost guarantee anytime someone official goes in to audit this they will find someone down on their knees. Not to mention a few cries of "OH GOD YES!!!" thrown in for good measure.