Church continues bid to stop lap-dancing (From Oxford Mail)
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Church continues bid to stop lap-dancing
7:14pm Tuesday 2nd February 2010 in
LEADERS of an Oxford church have resurrected protests against an Oxford bar’s plans to run lap-dancing sessions.
In January last year, Greene King applied for a licence to run lap dancing and pole dancing at Thirst Lodge, off St Ebbe’s Street, but withdrew its application after staff at St Ebbe’s Church complained.
But in December, the company renewed its application and the city council granted permission.
Now the church has appealed, and magistrates will be asked to reconsider the proposal.
On Saturday, church members gave out flyers outside the bar, in Pennyfarthing Place, and asked shoppers to sign a petition.
The Rev Vaughan Roberts, Rector of St Ebbe’s Church, said: “We are concerned because we understand women can feel intimidated and experience harassment from men who are leaving lap-dancing clubs.”
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punterpride
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3:06pm Sat 6 Feb 10
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Lucy Bannister, personal assistant to the Rev Vaughan Roberts, with fellow church members and staff outside Thirst Lodge
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Petre Mcvey says...
12:27pm Wed 3 Feb 10
No Rev, this happens to women all the time from drunken men leaving any bar, if anything the clients leaving a lap-dancing club are going to be more refined than the Red Lion regulars due to the fact that £15 is not going to get you very far in a lap-dancing club, but can get you p!ssed in the RED. You need a better argument than that if you are going to win.