A self-described “homeschooling father and volunteer minister” who was convicted of disorderly conduct after raising his middle finger to a pastor during services and then shouting at the man for endorsing “evil public schools” sparked a debate over obscenity among Georgia Supreme Court justices that went from the church to the highway.

David Freeman, who was acting as his own lawyer during oral arguments Monday, was arrested and charged after an incident that began with him flipping off Pastor Jason Berry during a service at the 12 Stone Church in Flowery Branch in 2014.

Then, after Berry finished the prayer he had offered for public school children and teachers, Freeman stood and shouted, according to his account, that it was a “sin not to raise your own children and to surrender them to a godless state.”