Take a read of the following article from Gloucester, England where City Council turned down a swing club application over ‘moral concerns’:
Council turns down swinger club bid - The Press Association - September, 1st, 2009
A city was saved from turning into “Sodom and Gomorrah” after a planning committee refused an application to convert a Grade II-listed building into a swingers’ club, protesters have said.
Planners had recommended an application to turn the historic New County Hotel, a 170-year-old building in Gloucester, into a private members’ sex club, complete with “fetish room for adult enjoyment”.
But Gloucester City councillors denied the application – much to the glee of a dozen or so objectors present at the meeting – on grounds that the city centre location was unsuitable and contrary to planning policy.
The planning application stated: “The private members’ club would comprise an exclusive venue for people with alternative sexual lifestyles such as gay men and women, bisexual men and women, transvestites, cross-dressers, cross-genders, variables and swingers.” And despite it being narrowly refused on planning grounds with six votes to five, those who objected saw it as a “triumph for common sense”.
Susan Johnson, who addressed the committee on behalf of those who stood against the plans, said she found the application “revolting and repugnant”.
Addressing the committee, she said: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. You are the good men and women of Gloucester. Please vote against the proposal.”
After the meeting, Ms Johnson added: “I didn’t use the words Sodom and Gomorrah, but I feel that this would have been the thin end of the wedge, which would only lead to Gloucester turning into that. I’m not homophobic, but I can love people and hate their activities. I can still hate the homosexual act. And I certainly hate adultery.”
The application has increasingly courted controversy over the last few weeks, and at the beginning of the committee meeting, held at the city council offices in Gloucester Docks, a pack of “late submissions” were handed out.
The comments strongly voiced objections to the application on moral grounds – which under planning policy guidelines can not influence a decision to approve or reject plans. But many of the comments were derided as homophobic and did not win any support from the councillors, despite the final outcome.
Coun Mary Smith (L, Matson and Robinswood), who voted against the proposal to reject the application, said: “I’m absolutely appalled by some of these comments. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything so homophobic. I’m saddened to think that we’ve not moved on at all.”
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Susan Johnson, the leading protester of the swing club, cited the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as her principle reason for opposing the club’s application. She believes that Gloucester, a city of 125,000 people, would suffer the same fate as Sodom and Gomorrah should the swing club’s application be approved. Having read through Susan’s comments, I wondered if she really knew what goes on in her own neighbourhood. To find the answer, I did a bit of research on what the good citizens of Gloucester do in their spare time and it seems they can be quite adventerous.
I logged onto www.adultfriendfinder.com, the worlds larges sex personals site, and checked the number sex ads for the City of Gloucester. This following is what I found:
- 13,200 men looking for women sex partner
- 1,728 men looking for couples sex partners
- 1,141 men looking for group sex partners
- 805 men looking for men sex partner
- 322 men seeking 2 men couples sex partners
- 546 men seeking TS/TV/TG sex partner
- 809 women looking for men sex partners
- 519 women seeking women sex partners
- 216 women seeking couples sex partners
- 132 women seeking 2 women couples sex partners
- 97 women seeking group sex partners
- 28 women seeing TS/TV/TG sex partners
- 200 couples seeking men sex partner
- 687 couples seeking women sex partner
- 500 couples looking for couples sex partners
- 167 couples seeking group sex partners
- 27 couples seeking TS/TV/TG sex partners
- 21 TS/TV/TG looking for men sex partner
- 35 TS/TV/TG looking for women sex partner
- 12 TS/TV/TG looking for group sex partners
- 20 TS/TV/TG looking for couples sex partners
Truth is often stranger than fiction and looking at the scale of these numbers, it appears that the citizens of Gloucester are having a lot of sinful sex. There are a total of 21,500 sex personals for a population of only 125,000, which works out to 1 sex ad for every 6 people. And remember, these are the sex personals from only one website, there are many more to chose from. I doubt Susan Johnson truly realizes the scale of ’sinning’ going on in Gloucester, because if she did, she should probably reconsider her place of residence. You may never know when fire and brimstone will start raining down on your sinful city! Someone should also remind her not to look back as she is leaving town.
While, Christian Fundamentalists, like Susan Johnson, will often threaten their opponents with Sodom and Gomorrah like destruction, there is not a single shred of evidence to suggest that swinging or any other related behaviour (insert your favourite forbidden sex act here), will cause natural disasters. I am currently working an in-depth investigation of the Sodom and Gomorrah story. As part of my investigation, I completed a detailed analysis of whether or not God destroyed cities for committing sodomite sins. My findings clearly demonstrate there is zero correlation between sexual sins and the occurrence of calamities/disasters. If you would wish to see more of my findings, please check the following article:
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