Downtown K.C strip bar plan withdrawn after protests
The Catholic Key carries this report:
Temptations opened in 1976, first as an adult theater, then as a strip club . . . Some months ago, Temptations’ owners filed a proposal with the Kansas City City Council to obtain a liquor license and expand into a recently vacated building next door . . .
Alliance Defense Fund (a non-profit Christian advocacy and litigation group) attorney Jim Jenkins, working with Phillip Cosby, executive director of the Kansas City chapter of the National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families, presented more than 1,500 pages of evidence opposing the expansion proposal to the city council’s Planning and Zoning Committee, headed by Councilman Terry Riley. Over the course of several hearings, the committee heard testimony from Tom Coyle, director, and Virginia Walsh, manager of the City Planning and Development office; Richard Bryant, an attorney for the club’s owners, and several local businessmen on behalf of the club . . .