(WSB Radio) -- Anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley appeared in court on Thursday in Carrollton on an obscenity charge for carrying a campaign sign that displays the head of an aborted fetus.

Horsley, a 64-year-old computer programmer, earned attention and airtime in the late 1990s for his role in establishing a Web site that published the names and addresses of doctors who performed abortions.

A municipal court judge refused to dismiss the obscenity case. Horsley then demanded a jury trial, and the judge transferred the case to a county court where it could be heard in a few weeks.

Horsley is running for governor in 2010 under a party he founded called The Creator's Rights Party.

He kicked off his campaign on July 4 in downtown Carrollton, where he showed up with the placard of the fetus on his back while singing an anti-abortion ballad he wrote.

Police told him to remove the sign. A few days later, Horsley showed up at the Carrollton City Hall with the sign in tow. City officials confiscated the sign and cited him on obscenity charges.