Interesting Twist - Naturism or Crime
Sunsport Gardens Family Naturist Resort is hosting a debate this week for the Loxahatchee Groves town council candidates. Sunsport, a 42 year old facility, has long been a part of the local community, but the town itself was incorporated only last year.
Of the ten candidates invited, only one refuses to attend the event at Sunsport. Toni Vorsteg, Seat 1 candidate, said she won’t be there because she doesn’t want to put fellow parishioners or their children in a “potentially embarrassing situation.” Vorsteg teaches children’s classes at Our Lady Queen of the Apostles Catholic church.
Vorsteg, a catechism teacher at Our Lady Queen of the Apostles Catholic Church in Royal Palm Beach, has brought her 18-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son to all the candidate forums. She said concerns about bringing her children to the resort combined with concerns about violating a moral oath she signed with her church when she started teaching catechism will keep her away from Thursday’s forum. It’s the third of four candidate forums in Loxahatchee Groves.
“I just didn’t feel comfortable bringing my children there,” she said. “It would be opening a dialogue that I wouldn’t know how to present to them. I don’t take them to nude beaches so why, for the sake of a campaign, would I go somewhere I’ve never been before?”
Morley Schloss, owner of Sunsport, doesn’t think Vorsteg has to worry about bringing her children.”Everything that goes on here is appropriate for children. Here is the least sexual environment I can imagine.”
Now for the interesting twist…
In 2003, Vorsteg’s husband, Stan Vorsteg, pled guilty to marijuana possession.
Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office found 153 grams of marijuana, two bongs, rolling papers and five OxyContin pills in September 2003 at Folsom Farms, the Vorsteg couple’s home and nursery, according to a police report.
Agents also said a room in the house they searched looked like it had been used to grow marijuana.
During the search, Stan Vorsteg reportedly told one of the agents the marijuana was his. He also told the agent that he and family members had previously cultivated marijuana but not anymore, according to the report.
Stan Vorsteg had been convicted and served two years probation for cocaine possession in his twenties and, at another time, charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana but pleading guilty to the lesser offense.
The candidate denies the drugs belonged to her husband, and said what happened back then had nothing to do with her or her husband. She said the criminal incident was unfortunate and embarrassing. The fact remains that the drugs were there, and her husband took responsibility for them.
So here we have someone who doesn’t want her children exposed to evil naked naturists, but has no problem with them living in a home where drugs are kept, and possibly grown and used. So much for “moral oaths”.
Illegal drug posession & use = OK. Legal family naturism = Not OK.
That’s what I call twisted logic.
Sources:
Naturists to host candidates debate
Forum at nudist resort is more than Loxahatchee candidate can bear
Loxahatchee Groves candidate plagued by drug woes of husband
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March 2nd, 2007 at 11:46 am
It looks like Toni Vorsteg kept her word not to attend the forum at Sunsport Gardens, however, from the Quotes in the Sun-Sentinel, it looks like she didn’t make any points with the local voters for her stand.