Ohio church sues strip club for holding topless protests

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio church has sued a strip club and its scantily clad staff for protesting topless outside the house of worship during the past five years.

New Beginnings Ministries in Warsaw alleges that the protesters have been threatening church members, blocking church entrances and exits and violating their right to religious freedom and the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, according to the federal lawsuit filed last Friday by the church’s pastor, William Dunfee.

Young children were “forced to be exposed to multiple female topless defendants protesting” at the church, according to the lawsuit.

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