The Huffington Post reports on the controversy surrounding a show featuring male strippers in Warrenton during the recently concluded semi-annual antique madness in the Round Top area.  Some of the locals were upset when Stephanie Welch booked the American Cowboy Las Vegas Revue for performances at an enclosed tent amidst the many antique dealers in beautiful downtown Warrenton.  Welch saw the handsome hoofing hotties at another antiques show and decided to book them on the same weekend as the 47th Original Round Top Antiques Fair.  The fact that the coolly clad cowboys were performing on Good Friday and Holy Saturday did not sit well with some of the locals who picketed on State Hwy 237.  Even some local politicos got in on the action.

“I find all of it pretty distasteful to begin with, the fact that they’re actually having it on Good Friday and Holy Saturday across the street from the church really makes it distasteful to me and the vast population,” Fayette County Judge Ed Janecka told KXAN TV.

In the interest of full disclosure, Red and family were in Warrenton on Good Friday shopping and visiting friends who exhibit (not that kind of exhibition) there.  The large tent where the buff and booted boys were dancing was clearly visible from the friend’s booth.  Only for a brief moment could we hear the rhythmic thumping of the dance beat.  As we left after sundown, about 50 protestors were still walking the shoulder of the road carrying signs and crosses.  They were peaceful and mostly unobtrusive in expressing their rights to free speech.  At least they left us alone because one of our party was wearing his Jesus shirt.   And frankly, I have never noticed the church in Warrenton because it is covered up by vendors and shoppers during the antiquing frenzy.  All in all a lot of hubbub about nothing.