Swingers say churches are the real hazard

The city council of Duncanville, Texas, responding to neighbors' complaints of traffic and general unsavoriness, voted to shut down a private residential sex club known as the Cherry Pit. But the owners are not taking this lying down (the actual words of the local CBS news affiliate reporter). They're trying to raise $10,000 on their website to hire an attorney and defend the constitutionality of... uh, well... swinging.

Any sex that takes place at private parties in their large suburban home is consensual, the owners said. (And Duncanville-- a suburb of Dallas-- is a "bedroom community" after all).

The TV news folks helpfully explained that swingers are people who are "open minded about their sexual partners." (Much like spadefoot toads, who recently have been observed to mate with other species).

Churchgoers are the real public hazard, the Cherry Pit owners insist.

"At 12 o'clock on Sunday, church lets out. They all flood the streets. They have to have police officers out on the street to direct traffic. There's a hazard. That causes wrecks. We don't do anything like that. We're not a nuisance... That's a nuisance," said Cherry Pit co-owner Jim Trulock.

There may be a lesson here somewhere. Why are all the churchgoers racing to get away from their place of fellowship, and the sex party folks are trying to think of excuses to hang around theirs?

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