No soothsaying, no fortune telling, no palm reading, no clairvoyance, no crystal ball gazing, no mind reading, no card reading. If you take cash, check, or charge for these services, that is all against the law in Livingston Parish. This according to an ordinance that was passed on
The ordinance violates the right to free speech, alleges a lawsuit that was filed by a local business in U.S. District Court on Tuesday. Gryphon’s Nest Gifts Inc. also stated that the ordinance “promotes Christian mythology over paganism.” The suit asks the court to declare the ordinance unconstitutional, to issue a permanent injunction prohibiting the parish from enforcing the ordinance and to assess damages.
The owner of the shop that filed the suit said that messages from the divine through the prohibited methods should be treated in the same manner as a message from God to a Christian priest. He also commented that anyone who uses “fortune telling to steal money should be arrested under laws against fraud.”
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