Street preachers oppose law they say keeps them off Bourbon Street after dark
By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, September 14, 2:23 PM
NEW ORLEANS — Bare breasts, drunken revelry and almost anything else is tolerated along Bourbon Street, but after dark, the city is saying street preachers are forbidden.
Two weeks ago, a small group of street preachers were arrested during a gay pride festival, perhaps the first people to be booked under a nearly year-old ordinance against aggressive solicitation on Bourbon Street. Those who crafted the law say it’s a public safety measure to help with crowd control and discourage con-artists, but the street preachers believe it’s a violation of their First Amendment rights.
Specifically, the law bans loitering on Bourbon to spread “any social, political or religious message between the hours of sunset and sunrise” ...
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