ZUMBRO FALLS, MN — Nude dancing in Zumbro Falls is causing a community uproar tonight, but the owners of the new strip club are fighting for their business in court.

For the very first time, music can be heard outside of the Pussycat Caberet, but music is the least of the worries for some people in Zumbro Falls.

“Nobody can tell me that where there’s a strip club there’s not prostitution, “says John Reese.

Reese says he moved to Zumbro Falls from Minneapolis to escape the kinds of crowd that strip clubs tend to attract.

He says he fears for the safety of his children.

Reese says, “We got less than 200 people here. You get a strip club, people are going to be coming from everywhere and we don’t know who these people are or nothing.”

Bucky Adams runs a body shop across the street from the Cabaret, he says the strip club would hurt his business.

Adams says, “Most of the people, that’s their big worry, that property values will go down. We just don’t want that type of crowd in this town. It’s a nice quiet town and we’d like to keep it that way.

The strip club’s attorney Randall Tigue [pictured] has been hired to defend hundreds of adult entertainment cases over his career.

Tigue says, “Adult entertainment is a positive contribution to a community and anything to the contrary is as big a lie as the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”

State law says that a local government can deny zoning for a strip club if another one exists within 50 miles.

There are other laws that state an adult entertainment business must be about a half-mile away from any school or place of worship and 500 fet from any residential area. Tigue says the Cabaret is open because both laws violate the First and 14th Amendments.

Tigue says, “The laws are unconstitutional, and the United States Supreme Court says where a law violates the First Amendment, you have a right to ignore it.”

The controversy is set to hit full steam at a city council meeting on Wednesday.