CLEVELAND: An Ohio church has filed a federal lawsuit against a strip club citing a statute used by abortion clinics against demonstrators, in the latest in a decade of protests, counter protests, suits and counter suits between the church and the club.

The suit seeks to bar the Foxhole North strip club's owner, Thomas George, and his employees from coming to church topless on Sundays to protest church members' demonstrations on Friday nights at the club.

George, defendant in the lawsuit filed by William Dunfee, pastor at New Beginnings Ministries, on Friday called the legal filing frivolous. The lawsuit filed by Dunfee last week, invokes the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE), a statute signed by then-President Bill Clinton in 1994 that protects both reproductive health clinics and churches from protests that would intimidate or block access.

Dunfee accuses George and his employees of intimidating and threatening congregants on Sundays at the church in Warsaw, Ohio, 60 miles northeast of Columbus. George says he and some of his employee have shown up topless to the church to protest of the church's Friday-night protests at his business nine miles away.

“What is good for the goose is good for the gander,” George said. “They are no different because of their line of work.” George said he quit protesting for a while. Now, in response to the lawsuit he plans to attend church on Sunday with his employees who will be without their shirts.