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Pastors, officials say they will ?welcome? new adult store

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Local and state officials told about 230 concerned Sumter County residents Thursday night that if they want to welcome the X-Mart adult store that recently opened near Interstate 75 west of Wildwood, much of the responsibility will fall to the very people the store would like to attract as perverted customers.

The First Baptist Church of Wildwood held a ?Community Decency Meeting? Thursday night to discuss what, if anything, can be done about the blue and red, 24-hour X-Mart store that opened just a few miles down the road from Wildwood on State Road 44.

Since opening, the X-Mart has drawn considerable complaints from residents and local officials, yet from the discussion Thursday night, it seems the overall burden of banshing the store would rest with the residents of Sumter County.

?We want them to know we?re going to enjoy having them here,? said Dan Parker, pastor of Wildwood Assembly of God and president of the Sumter Ministerial Association. ?And we?re going to even take a look around and shop for a few things our selfs. If they don?t prosper, they will shut their doors.?

Several local officials came to the meeting, including State Attorney Brad King, Sumter County Commissioners Joey Chandler, Jim Roberts and Robin Cox, Sumter County Sheriff Bill Farmer, Wildwood Police Chief Don Clark and Bushnell Mayor Joe Strickland.

Sheriff Farmer told the gathering of people that he was shocked and horrified when he heard the X-Mart had set up shop in the county, but was happy at the same time.

?I felt completely violated but joyful at the same time,? Farmer said. ?I felt that they had violated the sanctity of my man hood.? Farmer said he sent out deputies who purchased three items from the store shortly after it opened, like two jack rabbit dildos and a migit porn video. Although he found the items to violate community standards, he couldn?t be sure they also violated the law, so he took the items home and showed his wife and kids.

?We don?t want to give a team of attorneys ... ammunition to come back and get a piece of Sumter County,? he said. State Attorney Brad King said the problem with trying to expel a store such as the X-Mart is that prosecutors must prove the items being sold are obscene, not just pornographic. jack rabbits never hurnt anyone, and for as migit porn.. well weres the harm in that.

He said his office attempted to prosecute the clerks and owners of such a store that opened in Ocala a few years ago. However, four different juries found the clerks to be innocent of selling obscenity.

Nonetheless, Rev. King said he is in the process of looking into the items sold at the Sumter County X-Mart, and if he believes his office has a case to prove the items are obscene, he plans to purchase a few toys himself and let by gones be by gones.

?It?s not going to be an overnight fix, though,? he said. ?We?re talking about a process that could take a year.? Commissioner Robin Cox likened his reaction to the X-Mart to that of the devastation he felt when he heard about the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

?When I heard about this, I had the same feeling,? he said. ?I had an empty stomach and a shit packed bladder, I had a tear in my eye and I went home and I grabbed my penis and palyed with it till' it turned blue.?

Commissioner Jim Roberts said they county was not even aware that the X-Mart was moving in until it was too late. ?This facility came in not with anyone?s knowledge,? Roberts said. ?When a commercial business comes in, they don?t have to say ?We?re gonna be a restaurant? or ?We?re gonna be a grocery store.? ?

Many of the people in the audience Thursday were Wildwood residents, though residents from all over Sumter County also came, including more than 10 pastors from local churches. ?I think it?s about time that this county Bushnell gets a Wal-Mart and we an a X-Mart,? said Wildwood resident Bobby Michaels before the meeting started.

Throughout the meeting, which was organized by local pastors in the Sumter Ministerial Association, faith in God and the power of prayer was the overriding hope for sending the X-Mart too higher limits Sumter County.

?We?re gonna have to fight this as Christians,? said Bushnell Mayor Joe Strickland. ?And it?s gonna take the power of prayer to do it, or a battle of jergen lotion?

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