{"id":530,"date":"2011-03-01T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/03\/while-others-just-uh-have-happy-time-with-themselves-on-playgrounds.html"},"modified":"2011-03-01T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:12:00","slug":"while-others-just-uh-have-happy-time-with-themselves-on-playgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/03\/while-others-just-uh-have-happy-time-with-themselves-on-playgrounds.html","title":{"rendered":"While Others Just&#8230;Uh&#8230;Have Happy Time With Themselves On Playgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Another homophobic right wing loonatic preacher has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/crime\/index.ssf\/2011\/02\/man_booked_with_masturbating_a.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">arrested for a sex crime<\/a>.\u00a0 This time it\u2019s Grant Storms of New Orleans.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never heard of him, but he\u2019s a local legend over there, best known for his obnoxious protests at Southern Decadence, the gay pride event.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Storms, 53, of 2304 Green Acres Road in Metairie, was taken into custody at Lafreniere Park after two women reported seeing him masturbating in the driver\u2019s seat of his van, which was parked near the carousel and playground, a <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nola.com\/tag\/jefferson%20parish%20sheriff%27s%20office\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jefferson Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office <\/a>report said.<\/p>\n<p>The first woman told deputies she was taking her children to the playground and parked next to the van at about noon. As she was walking around her own vehicle, she noticed the van windows were down and the occupant was \u201clooking at the playground area that contained children playing, with his zipper down\u2026,\u201d the report said. The woman noted that he was masturbating and quickly ushered her children out of her car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another source reports that he\u2019s awfully sorry and that he knows he\u2019s a big old hypocrite and he\u2019s got a porno problem and would we just please let him have his privacy.\u00a0 Well, Rev, considering the troubles you\u2019ve caused others, the answer to that request would be no.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another homophobic right wing loonatic preacher has been arrested for a sex crime.\u00a0 This time it\u2019s Grant Storms of New Orleans.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never heard of him, but he\u2019s a local legend over there, best known for his obnoxious protests at Southern Decadence, the gay pride event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,16],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogentries","tag-fundamentalist-christianity","tag-homophobia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>While Others Just...Uh...Have Happy Time With Themselves On Playgrounds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Another homophobic right wing loonatic preacher has been arrested for a sex crime.\u00a0 This time it\u2019s Grant Storms of New Orleans.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never heard of him,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/03\/while-others-just-uh-have-happy-time-with-themselves-on-playgrounds.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"While Others Just...Uh...Have Happy Time With Themselves On Playgrounds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Another homophobic right wing loonatic preacher has been arrested for a sex crime.\u00a0 This time it\u2019s Grant Storms of New Orleans.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never heard of him,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/03\/while-others-just-uh-have-happy-time-with-themselves-on-playgrounds.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Atheist Rabbi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-03-01T19:12:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeffrey L. 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