Mar 27 2008
S.C. Bill Would Ban Lap Dances
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Exotic dancers would have to stay six feet from strip club customers and those businesses would have to close at midnight under a bill being considered by House lawmakers. Scott Bergthold is a Tennessee-based lawyer who told a House subcommittee on Thursday that late operating hours for strip clubs creates more crime and problems for police.
Bergthold says stripper dances may be protected by courts, but not when they touch customers, which is commonly known as a lap dance.
He says there’s no constitutional right to lap dances.
The House Judiciary Committee will next take up the proposal.
I’ll bet a hundred bucks there is a religious connection to this and furthermore, what is a Tennessee lawyer doing over here in South Carolina telling us what to do with our laws? I would like to know which legislator is sponsoring this bill. I guess it’s a good thing I live right on the state line.
even though i think dancing is wrong . I dont think the gov. has the right to tell others that they are morally wrong to get a dance, that is freedom of religion, as long as sex is not being proformed. State and church is suppost to be saperated. And as for crime it happenes more at regular night club thin in audlt clubs. So they would (((probally )))) be the next on the list to attack. The pepole needs to think about how much taxes the clubs pay in each year. If the clubs shut down then we are the ones that are going to be making up the differance in taxes . The state needes to be more concered with schools and our chilrens education not pushing them thought just so no one will get thier felling hurt. All that does is make our kids dumb enogh to belive all the lies that are being said. And they need to try getting our (((econamy()))) up and going not taerring it down any fruther then it already is