edge on the NetOn Bourbon Street, Party But Don't Preach at Nightby Janet McConnaughey | Associated Press | Monday Sep 17, 2012
http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=national&sc2=news&sc3=&id=137044NEW 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."
