Douchebaggery

Get out of my city, you creeps.

For the second consecutive year, groups of Catholics staged a prayerful protest of the Krewe du Vieux Carnival club because the activists believe the krewe mocked Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Eucharist with images used in its 2005 parade.

The protest came hours before the 2007 edition of the parade.

While last year’s vigil was a smaller, local event, about 100 people joining a prayer walk through the French Quarter, this year’s protest, staged by local Catholics and a Pennsylvania-based group, brought more than 250 people together for about two hours on the steps of City Hall. The crowd Saturday prayed the Rosary and sang hymns “in reparation” for “blasphemies” perpetrated by the krewe in the 2005 parade.