NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Isaac didn’t stop thousands of gay revelers from partaking in “Southern Decadence” in New Orleans, but a few preachers who tried to witness at the homosexual Labor Day weekend party were arrested.
Police arrested eight preachers for yelling anti-gay slurs over bullhorns in violation of a city ordinance passed last October, the Times-Picayune reported.
The ordinance 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,” according to the Picayune.
Paul Gros, a French Quarter pastor who offers his Vieux Carre Assembly of God Church as a base for ministers protesting the event, said he believes the ordinance violates freedom of speech.
The nine pastors plan to sue the city of New Orleans, claiming that the city ordinance is unconstitutional. (TAB)
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