Salina ? Other than a few “older” women who made obscene gestures as they drove by, a week on the roof of an adult bookstore was mostly a positive experience, Ray Morris said Friday as he prepared to come down from his perch the next morning.

The 38-year-old consultant for a Salina cosmetic company spent a week of vacation living on top of the north Salina business to protest local efforts to have the town’s two adult book stores investigated for obscenity.

“I can’t stress enough that I am not promoting porn,” Morris said. “I’m promoting the idea of choice. Everyone has a right to choose whether they want to enter these stores.”

A Salina group wants a grand jury to investigate whether the two stores are promoting obscenity by selling sexually oriented products.

A petition calling for the grand jury was deemed invalid last week because people who signed it didn’t identify their voting precincts. Organizers are starting another signature drive, this time providing a computer database showing people the precinct boundaries.

A similar petition drive in Abilene resulted in grand jury indictments against the Lion’s Den adult bookstore on Interstate 70 west of the city.

Morris withstood several nights of rain that were made worse by a hole in his tent that caused his belongings and food to get wet.

“Dozens have come up said they are glad that someone is doing something,” he said. “It’s been 99 percent positive, and I’m glad I did it, and I’d do it again.”

Besides trying to get attention for his cause, Morris gathered signatures on a petition he plans to send to the Legislature seeking a change in obscenity laws — or removal of them altogether from state statute.