Stanton : Hearing Postponed in Adult Bookstore Case
A Superior Court hearing on a preliminary injunction against a Beach Boulevard adult bookstore has been postponed to May 8.
The suit, filed last month by the city against store owner Ginger Cox, seeks to stop the Earmark Books & Video Center from conducting an adult entertainment business.
Earlier this week, about 20 community leaders showed up at the shop to protest its opening last month. Father Lawrence Baird, pastor of St. Polycarp Catholic Church, Stanton’s largest religious congregation, gave Cox a petition signed by 1,400 residents opposed to the shop.
Earmark Books is the city’s only adult entertainment business, and Baird told Cox it is “not in line with the standards of this community.”
Also among the protesters were Joan Hayes, president of the Board of Trustees of Savanna School District and Chamber of Commerce President Bill Snyder.
Cox said she would continue to run her shop and that Monday’s protesters were simply “interfering in other people’s business.”
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