How not to organize a protest.

From the Ohio Columbus Dispatch comes an odd tale of warring protests: Employees at a local strip club were tired of the members of a nearby church protesting outside their club every week, so they organized a protest of their own outside the church.

Fed up with the tactics of Dunfee and his flock, they say they have finally accepted his constant invitation to come to church.

It’s just that they’ve come wearing see-through shorts and toting Super Soakers.

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They bring lawn chairs and – yesterday, anyway – grilled hamburgers, Monster energy drinks and corn on the cob.

They sat in front of the church and waved at passing cars but largely ignored the congregation behind them.

The strippers’ tactics seem a little…unfocused; but then, I don’t think much of the church’s protests, either:

Every weekend for the last four years, Dunfee and members of his ministry have stood watch over George’s joint, taking up residence in the right of way with signs, video cameras and bullhorns in hand. They videotape customers’ license plates and post them online, and they try to save the souls of anyone who comes and goes.

Everything about this — on both sides — just screams UR DOIN IT WRONG. Except for this guy:

[T]he churchgoers largely ignored the dancers. Except for Stan Braxton. He stopped and held hands with Lola, a 42-year-old dancer who made $200 on her Saturday night shift, and prayed for her salvation.

Lola, who wouldn’t give her last name, said she was grateful for Braxton’s prayers and his time.

You have to wonder what more talking — and fewer bullhorns and Super Soakers — might accomplish.

[H/t Bobby Ross Jr. at GetReligion]

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  • Margaret Cabaniss

    Margaret Cabaniss is the former managing editor of Crisis Magazine. She joined Crisis in 2002 after graduating from the University of the South with a degree in English Literature and currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She now blogs at SlowMama.com.

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