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...Pagano knows what Andy Warhol said about fame, but he has learned firsthand that it can last decidedly longer than 15 minutes. Pagano, pastor of New Bethel Church, an Assemblies of God congregation here in Louisville, Ky., has spent the past few weeks inside an international media maelstrom over his church's upcoming "open carry church service," which is set for this Saturday, June 27. That's when he expects Christians who are both pious and gun-loving to heed his invitation to bring their weapons to church to give thanks for the right to bear arms...
...event, which is not a worship service, has been planned for several months, Pagano tells TIME, but drew little attention until the Louisville Courier-Journal ran a story in early June. Since then, Pagano, 49, a New Jersey native who's been in Kentucky for nearly 30 years and pastor of New Bethel for 10, has been swamped with interview requests. He's granted most of them, although he declined a request from ABC's Nightline to set up during the event because he fears the cameras would be invasive. (See pictures of "Gun Culture, U.S.A...
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...bring justice to Tiller and the closing of his death camp. Sometime soon, would it be feasible to organize as many people as possible to attend Tillers [sic] church (inside, not just outside) to have much more of a presence and possibly ask questions of the Pastor, Deacons, Elders and members while there? Doesn't seem like it would hurt anything but bring more attention to Tiller." - a poster identifying himself as Scott Roeder, at OperationRescue.org, in response to a scheduled vigil to "pray for an end to George R. Tiller's late-term-abortion business...
...cultural backgrounds. Because Lopez’s family is Catholic and primarily Spanish-speaking and DeCoste-Lopez’s family is Protestant and English-speaking, the wedding alternated between Spanish and English with the aid of both a local Spanish-speaking priest and DeCoste-Lopez’s pastor. “People seemed to like it,” she said with a laugh. “At least that’s what they told us.” Lopez, a chemical and physical biology concentrator from San Jose, California, and DeCoste-Lopez, a biology concentrator...