A Nashville club that allows adults to come in and commit acts of adultery and other sexual sins claims it’s going to be using a new facility as a church to try and avoid city zoning laws that prohibit adult-oriented businesses within 1,000 feet of schools and churches.

The group, called The Social Club, recently purchased a former medical office next to the Goodpasture Christian School.  The leaders of the school and parents of the students who attend protested at a Metro Nashville Council meeting where an amendment to the bill was made that prohibits the club from opening.

The Christian school is less than 1,000 feet from the building as are two other churches.

The Club then submitted new paperwork to the city calling themselves the United Fellowship Center.  A former dance room is now called the “sanctuary.”  Other rooms that had sexually oriented names now are being called the “handbell rooms” or  “prayer rooms.”

“They can sue us and say they want an injunction to stop us from operating, and we can say we have some tenets of the church sort of like the Ten Commandments,” club attorney Larry Roberts told Washington Post.

Roberts also claims the head of the organization has become an ordained minister.

“As of right now, a church is a use that is allowed by right at this location under the zoning classification, and if it has passed all relevant codes then we will have to issue the use and occupancy letter,” city Zoning Administrator Bill Herbert told the Christian Post.

If the club is found not to be operating as a church after it is allowed to open, the Council would then have to take action to close the club.