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CHICAGO -- A group of nuns is ready to fight a new strip club adjacent to a Roman Catholic convent in suburban Stone Park.
Sister Marissonia Daltoe told the Chicago Sun-Times she's not only concerned about the morality of the club, but the legality of it, specifically whether it was built too close to the nuns’ property line.
“What are we trying to teach the children in the neighborhood?” Daltoe of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo – Scalabrinians told the Sun-Times.
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The club, still under construction, is tentatively called “Get It” and will feature partially nude performers and alcohol, the Sun-Times reports. It sought approval from the town in 2010.
The convent, which includes a home for elderly and sick nuns and a place for young women to join the sisterhood, would sit adjacent to the club. The venue is less than two feet from the nuns’ property, which sits partially in Stone Park and partially in Melrose Park, according to the publication.
Daltoe said the town didn't officially notify them of the project, and Stone Park officials told the Sun-Times they sent notification letters to the wrong address because of an apparent Cook County error. The letters aren't required.
Town officials say they met all other legal requirements, though Mayor Beniamino Mazzulla told the paper he signed on to the deal only after a 2010 lawsuit against Stone Park by developers.
The owner of Get It told the Sun-Times he wants to be a good neighbor and will limit the light and noise from the club. He said the club will be a high-tech, high-class venue.
Another strip club sits down the street from the one still being built.
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Stop judging the nuns at least they are trying to live a decent life style. Because they are nuns complaining people are having an issue with religion! This issue is not about religion. I'm not a nun and I would not want a strip club in the neighborhood where I live!
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I'm always rather amused when I see people calling for the removal of a church's tax-free status. That would be about the worst idea ever. Once their tax-free status is removed, then they can totally get involved in the political process of the country and the separation of Church and state is violated. I really would like to see the separation of Church and state maintained, so removing the tax-free status is a BAD idea.
Then the church should stay the hell out of politics, by the way I corrected the spelling of your church twice , its church not curch
I wonder if any of the stripers dress as nuns?
If the strip club isn't on their property then it isn't their business to fight its establishment. Sounds like more people that are generally against freedom.
Does the convent OWN the property the strip club wants to build on? NO! Just a case of church wanting to rule the entire world with an iron fist and say who can do what where. The church doesn't understand the concept of freedom.
I think they understand it and despise it. It undermines their struggle for control.
Reading the majority of posts here and across the net on this subject turns my stomach. There is no honor or integrity within these people. Nuns are not perfect but they devote their lives to helping others. I've met a few I find difficult to deal with but the vast majority spend their lives helping the poor, the hungry, the wayward, and most of all the children. They have gone to third world countries to teach, to feed, to cloth. They have been maligned, beaten and murdered. They are mocked, harrassed and have become the butt of many comedians jokes. Where are the women's rights advocates when it comes time to stand up for a nun...nowhere, that's where.
Let me ask a question, would you prefer your _______— (mother, sister, friend, daughter) to be a nun or a stripper? Nuns do good for others, strippers take off there clothes for the enjoyment of strangers and the pockets of her male boss. They do it for the money but the majority have drug and alcohol problems. They have low self esteem and are usually trying to overcome a childhood trama. Yes, I have known strippers. Theirs is a difficult life. Very few come out of the profession unscathed. I hope the nuns continue to do their good works. I hope they pray for the health of the strippers next door.
I think the town was wrong. I think there was graft involved. I hope the nuns win but I don't think they will. I already know, through the postings here, that they have lost in the court of public opinion. It is not just sad, it is nauseating.