Uniontown Indiana is a small town of about 50 people located off Interstate 65 at exit 41, Just 41 miles north of Louisville, Kentucky.

  In January, 2005, a local ten year old girl, Katie Coleman, was abducted, raped and murdered. Her assailant, Anthony Stocklemen, was eventually apprehended, tried and sentenced to life without parole. The horrible event made national news at the time.

  This brutal loss of a child traumatized the people in the area. What they had once believed was a safe, rural community to raise children, suddenly seemed as dangerous as an urban city.

  At the time this was happening, The Lion's Den was secretly building a new sex business in Uniontown. The owner of the property lied to local government and to residents stating the property would be a truck stop/grocery store. Months later when pressed by a local newspaper, Mr. Stone stated he was undecided. Still, in this rural community, local government and people did not comprehend for many months the property under development would be for a sex business.

  By July, 2005, strong rumor and some unconfirmed confirmation that the new development was to be a sexually oriented business led the people in the community to set up a protest watch. Local government refused to do anything about stopping the opening or even investigating the developer for his true intentions. Local government officials even allowed a variance for a 100 foot sign without knowing what the sign would say. The reason, was they were threatened the developer would sue them. The sign when eventually erected, 80 feet higher than all the other signs along the interstate, reads "ADULT SUPER STORE." It is a towering 100 foot tribute to local government ineptitude.

  Local governemnt said there was nothing they could do. Immense pressure was applied to local government by residents, including when 15 protesters were arrested on August 12, 2005 for protesting on a county road in front of the entrance to the sex business which had not yet opened.  On August 17, just five days after 15 Jackson County residents were arrested for protesting the adult store, Jackson County commissioners passed an adult entertainment ordinance that would prevent a sexually oriented business from opening within 1,000 feet of residential homes and churches. The 15 protesters were all later acquitted in a court of law.

  The Lion's Den ignored this ordinance and opened anyway on August 19. Since that time, Jackson County government has done virtually nothing to enforce its own adult entertainment ordinance. They say they are scared of lawsuits by the sex business.  The Indiana State Legislature, however, passed a new law in 2007 requiring sexually oriented businesses to first notify the Indiana Secretary of State before applying for building permits. The Secretary of State will notify local communities of the sex business' intent so they can't lie on paperwork to local officials and open illegally like the Lion's Den in Uniontown.

  The Uniontown protesters personally raised funds for a noted constitutional attorney to amend the ordinance and new legal action is pending which could eventually close the Lion's Den. Jackson County government still refuses to pay a dime to enforce its own ordinance. All legal work on behalf of Jackson County, Indiana is being personally paid by the Uniontown protesters.

  Since the protest began, 17 protesters have been arrested for simply exercising their first amendment rights. All protesters have been acquitted by the court. During the over 1,300 days of protest, the Uniontown protesters have been physically attacked hundreds of times, but Jackson County law enforcement and Indiana State Police have yet to arrest a single attacker. This is in spite of protesters providing full identification, including pictures and license plate numbers to locate the attackers. Local government and law enforcement have much to answer to Jackson County residents. 

  Protesters stay out front of the Lion's Den 24/7. They take pictures of the customers and post them on the world wide web. The nine acre site was designed to cater to truckers, (over 200 per night according to the owner Ronald Stone of Columbus, Ohio). The little town with no police would be overwhelmed if this were to become reality.

  But the Lion's Den business plan has yet to become reality. The Uniontown protest is remarkably effective. An estimated 90 percent of the potential customers will not risk the exposure and turn away. Truck drivers who come to the Uniontown Lions Den are notified by large signs that their employer will be notified and posted on our website. The result is instead of 200 trucks per night (1,400 per week!) parking at the smut shop, the Lion's Den has only an average of 12 per week. The large nine acre lot purchased to accommodate the 200 trucks, is grown over with high grass since the Lion's Den could never afford to develop it.