Broward New Times (blog)
The cover story in this week’s edition of the print product is about how South Florida became the mecca of swinging — couple swapping, that is — in this country. We visit several local sex clubs, talk with a number of lifestyle participants (and club employees), and even show you a little of how it works in the “back room.”
Of course there are a lot of people who’d love to see these clubs abolished. In addition to the sex clubs and dozens of strip clubs and sex toy stores, the north part of Broward county is also home to more than 300 churches. The loudest, most outspoken voice among them is probably Reverend O’Neal Dozier, the 62-year-old charismatic leader of the World Wide Christian Church. Dozier, who grew up in Pompano Beach, has been a staunch opponent to gay rights and abortion in any form. (Two years ago he held a public funeral for an aborted fetus.)
For the proliferation of sin this area, Dozier blames his fellow ministers. “It’s an indictment of the church,” he says. “There’s a decline in morality, a falling away from God, a rise in atheism, and it all starts with the rabbis and the priests and the pastors. They’re afraid to teach what’s in the Bible because it will run people from you, but our culture is a reflection of what people are preaching from the pulpit.” …