This whole thing reeks of a publicity stunt to me. This guy has what? Two, maybe three dozen people in his entire congregation? The population of the checkout line at IKEA on a Saturday afternoon is larger than this guy's whole church. Seriously.
The planned then canceled Koran burnings got him the publicity he appeared to want, though probably not in the way he wanted. I'm not big on any organised religion, but I'm with Ethereal on the race-baiting religious bigotry angle. Gainesville may not be the buckle of the Bible Belt, but it is still the South, and unfortunately views like this pastor's are not uncommon there.
(IMG:
style_emoticons/default/badmood.gif)
Maybe now that this has been canceled we can move on to real issues and not give this guy any more than his already allotted 15 minutes of fame.
(IMG:
style_emoticons/default/dots.gif)