Scottsdale, AZ- Adult film star Jenna Jameson on Monday drew a lively crowd of more than 200 people to Scottsdale City Hall, where City Council members picked through a laundry list of options to tighten up their sexually oriented businesses ordinance.

The meeting went late into the night with no decision as of press time.

The owners Scottsdale’s two strip club said the new rules are oppressive and will make it nearly impossible for them to continue running businesses that have been part of the city’s hospitality scene for decades.

“What you have in your hands tonight is a ‘Put us out of business card,'” said First Amendment attorney Dick Hertzberg, who represents Jameson. “Why don’t you give her a chance. Let her run her business for a few months and see how it goes. What’s wrong with fairness?”

Also appearing at the podium was Scott Bergthold, the attorney that Jameson dubbed “a hired gun for the Christian right,” who helped Scottsdale draft its new law.

Bergthold told the council the current law gives them the right to regulate the strip clubs because of “secondary effects” such as prostitution and the spread of the diseases.

The vast majority of the dozens of speakers urged the council to uphold the rights of the strip clubs. Even the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce defended the city’s entrepreneurs from onerous restrictions.

John Miller, the owner of Papago Brewing Company, said the blurring the separation of church and state and chided them for subjecting tax dollars to the risk of lengthy legal challenges.

“I spent 20 years fighting to uphold our Constitution,” who was in the Coast Guard. “I’m not going to stop when the fight is in our own backyard.”

Scottsdale already has one of the most restrictive ordinances in the state, Hertzberg said.

Scottsdale leaders have been edgy about their formerly low-profile adult nightclubs since August. The internationally-famous Jameson bought Babe’s at 2011 N. Scottsdale Rd. and announced that she was renovating the old cabaret opening a top-flight adult nightclub called Club Jenna.

At the same time, city attorneys had hauled out the sexually oriented businesses ordinance, which City Hall insiders dubbed the S.O.B., to prepare it for revisions made necessary by recent legal rulings.

They hired Bergthold, an attorney aligned with the Christian-based Alliance Defense Fund, who has earned his own notoriety for beating back adult businesses around the nation.

“From that point, the process took on a life of its own and began to run amok,” said John H. Weston, the attorney for Skin Cabaret at 1137 N. Scottsdale Road. “In my experience, this is a very, very extremist proposal.”

Weston, who has been defending adult businesses for 25 years, said that the proposal went beyond anything he has seen in the West and could be the subject of litigation for years to come.

Bergthold drafted a list of options for the council that included an outright ban on alcohol. Thongs would be out as well under the new definition of “semi-nude,” although the amendment included an exclusion for women at shopping malls and resort swimming pools who showed more cleavage and bottom than was proposed for semi-nude dancers.

The proposal called for no grandfathering provisions, instead specifying that when licenses came up for their annual renewal, they would be outlawed.

Jameson has been waiting months for the city to comment on her application to transfer the Babe’s liquor license and send the issue to the state licensing board. The city was set to vote on that issue in TK, but have put it on indefinite delay while checking the background investigations of Jameson’s club partners, who include Steven Hirsch, CEO of Los Angeles-based Vivid Entertainment. Adult film producer Frank Koretsky is also a partner.

Todd Borowsky, who owns Skin Cabaret, said he feels blindsided by the controversy ever since Jameson opened the club.

The club owner said he was angry that Scottsdale, which works closely with businesses when re-drafting regulations, shut him and Weston out of the process.

“This is about due process,” Borowsky said. “We want the City Council to open up with us so we can hear their problems and help remedy them. This is going to end up in a huge litigation and cost Scottsdale millions of dollars for an experiement.”