It shall be unlawful for any person to be concerned
or instrumental in collecting or promoting any assemblage of persons
for public worship or exhortation, or to ridicule or denounce any
form of religious belief, service or reverence or to preach or expound
atheism or agnosticism or under any pretense therefor, in any street
or other public place. A clergyman or minister of any denomination,
however, or any person responsible to or regularly associated with
any church or incorporated missionary society or any lay preacher
or lay reader may conduct religious services, or any authorized representative
of a duly incorporated organization devoted to the advancement of
the principles of atheism or agnosticism may preach or expound such
cause in any public street or place specified in a permit therefor
which may be granted or issued by the City Clerk. This section shall
not be construed to prevent any congregation of the Baptist denomination
from assembling in an appropriate place for the purpose of performing
the rites of baptism according to the ceremonies of that church.
