Monday, February 28, 2011
Anti-gay Southern Decadence preacher arrested on obscenity charges
Posted by Kevin Allman on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:06 PM
- JPSO
- Rev. Grant Storms
Storms, who famously denounced the largely gay Labor Day celebration as "perversion," was arrested for allegedly masturbating near a Lafreniere Park playspot where children were present. According to an arrest report, Storms told the attending officer he wasn't masturbating, but had simply opted to urinate in a bottle in his van rather than find a park restroom.
In 2003, Storms and his followers marched on the Southern Decadence festival with bullhorns, and told ABC News' Primetime Live he wanted Southern Decadence shut down "utterly and totally. We want them out of town." At the time, he told The Times-Picayune, "Having oral sex in the middle of the street or masturbating is illegal and immoral," and worried that NOPD officers patrolling the festival might work "some kind of back-room deal to have an orgy in the street."
The following year, a group of French Quarter business owners led by the Bourbon Street Alliance successfully obtained a restraining order against Storms and his protestors, and the City Council voted to bar the use of bullhorns during Decadence.
Storms disappeared from the public eye shortly thereafter, but a lawsuit he had filed against a Wisconsin group backfired on the pastor in 2006 when a judge found his suit lacked merit and ordered him to pay $87,000 to the group he was suing.
Storms was released from the Gretna jail Feb. 27 due to overcrowding. According to Louisiana law, "whoever commits the crime of obscenity shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars, or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not less than six months nor more than three years, or both."
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Sometimes it's hard ... to be a good Christian.
You have to beat ... the devil at every turn.
When you come ... to the realization Jesus loves you,
It feels good ... to know you won't burn.
Peace,
Tim
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@Tim: LMAO!!!!! that is too funny. Why is it that the main people we see spearheading the protests and slinging derogatory names always seem to fit the bill for the exact thing that they are against? In my opinion he was given a slap on the wrist . The fact that he was performing a lewd sexual act in the vicinity of kids has more profound implications to me. Can anyone say "pedophile"???
Wtf? so he pissed in a bottle, big deal let the guy go! you jefferson county Fucks! Other wise GOD will destroy New Orleans one more time, but this time by fire and earthquake. and all the Faggots will fall into the fiery pitt from that Oil volcano that is soon to erupt and the new madrid fault which will give way. ha ha ha new orleans gonna burn! (this is a terrorist threat :) Lets see what you can do about it.
