Posted on 09/03/2012 3:14:52 PM PDT by scottjewell
Police say they yelled anti-gay slurs over bullhorns during a demonstration
Using a city law passed just last year, police in New Orleans arrested nine preachers for an anti-gay demonstration during Southern Decadence festivities in the French Quarter over the weekend.
Eight of the men were arrested on suspicion of aggressive solicitation under an ordinance that prohibits 'any person or group of persons to loiter or congregate on Bourbon Street for the purpose of disseminating any social, political or religious message between the hours of sunset and sunrise.'
A ninth man was arrested on suspicion of battery, resisting an officer and interfering with a law enforcement investigation. Justin Craft, 31, allegedly punched an officer who was attempting to confiscate his bullhorn, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Police said they did not know which organization the men represented.
Southern Decadence is gay festival which draws over 100,000 LGBT people to the state. This year's event took place as Isaac, now a tropical storm, caused heavy flooding in areas around the state and damage around the Gulf Coast - nearly seven years to the day after the devastating Hurricane Katrina.
Christian extremists pointed to the festival as evidence it was God punishing the United States for pushing the ‘homosexual agenda.'
I won’t ask how you stumbled into the “Gay Star” web site...
This ordinance would be unlikely to survive a serious 1st amendment challenge.
Perfection is the enemy of good.
ha, I don’t stumble, I actually subscribe to their feed along with many others. I get many interesting articles this way FWIW ;-)
ha, I don’t stumble, I actually subscribe to their feed along with many others. I get many interesting articles this way FWIW ;-)
So a bunch of half-naked queers bumping and grinding on a public street isn't, in and of itself, a social/political message???
Talk about "down the rabbit hole..."
I found myself in the unfortunate position of being in the French Quarter one year when Southern Decadence was going on. Actually, I was trying to get through the Quarter and to the bus station, to get back to Little Rock for the weekend. It was weird, no women anywhere. I wrote this:
I’m the only girl in the Quarter tonight
That should be a delight
But something’s not right
Can’t get no attention from all these gents
On a weekend they call Southern Decadence.
Could never finish it, but it makes its point.
You might carry on by pointing out how things would differ on a lesbian night....
Makes the point quite well and poetically!
“America; we’ve lost our way....... “
That we have. Instead of freedom of speech and religion, we now have freedom from offensive speech. It’s just what the progressive legal scholars have been pushing. So many people see it as caring and compassionate, a few, like me, find that it is chilling to the bone.
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