Religious "freedom" at work

Just heard this on my local news.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TN_SWINGERS_CLUB_CHURCH_TNOL-?SITE=NMALJ
Apr 17, 3:43 PM EDT

Sex club converts, becomes a church in order to win approval

MADISON, Tenn. (AP) -- 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.

WSMV-TV ( http://bit.ly/1b2sUJf ) reports developers fought for months to open a swinger's club in a vacant building next to Goodpasture Christian School in Madison. 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.

http://www.kxxv.com/story/28888101/sex-club-seeks-nashville-blessing-by-vowing-to-be-a-church
Sex club seeks Nashville blessing by vowing to be a church
By TRAVIS LOLLER
Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Nashville swingers club has undergone a conversion - it says it's now a church - in order to win city approval so it can open next to a Christian school.

The story began last fall, when a fixture in downtown Nashville called The Social Club sold its building and purchased a new one in a run-down office park several miles to the east.

The new building is geographically isolated at the end of a dead-end street, but it is near the back of Goodpasture Christian School, a large private school serving pre-school through high school children