Say No to Smut, Booze, Sluts and Thugs; Don't Cut Red Tape for Red-Light District in D.C

Byline: Deborah Simmons, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

I've been called a "homophobe," a "hater" and worse because I oppose the D.C. legislative proposition that would grant special permission for nude bars and their nefarious constituencies to set up shop in the section of the city where I live, work and, on occasion, worship. My personal arguments don't stand on sexual preferences or gender. They stand on the merits of quality of life in the nation's capital.

Here's the issue, without bogging you, the reader, down in minutiae or hysterics: The D.C. government is building a baseball stadium in an area where eight establishments that catered to homosexuals were located; the businesses were displaced; in search of new homes, several have …

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Publication information: Article title: Say No to Smut, Booze, Sluts and Thugs; Don't Cut Red Tape for Red-Light District in D.C. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Washington Times (Washington, DC). Publication date: May 25, 2007. Page number: A21. © 2009 The Washington Times LLC. COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale Group.

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