That's no excuse for behaving like an asshole even if it were true, which it is not.
You suggested that instead of allowing the pastors or whomever else is undesired in the courtroom that the judge could use closed circuit and isolate them to another area. That would still exclude them from the courtroom.
You also made several comments supporting why the pastors would be "influential", sway the jury, and/or disruptive and would be candidates for being restricted to watching the proceedings on close circuit, again, removing them from the courthouse.
If you don't support the courtroom being open to everyone then you do exactly what I said, you want certain people excluded either directly or by isolating somewhere where the jury can't see them.
Just because you didn't' spell it out the way I did, that's exactly what you implied, all your statements taken collectively.