San Diego Union-Tribune
EAST COUNTY – For 22 years, they’ve been singing hymns at a stone-sided building off East County’s Old Highway 80, not country and western songs. They’ve been drinking grape juice for communion, not wine and beer.
EDUARDO CONTRERAS / Union-Tribune
Stan Peterson, pastor of Guatay Christian Fellowship, said of the dispute: “What do we know? I clean carpets. I’m not a lawyer. How come two lawyers can’t get together and agree?”
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County officials say that has to stop.A county attorney told the Guatay Christian Fellowship it’s OK to sell beer and wine and host live events at the building in a trailer park, but it doesn’t have a permit to allow religious services.
“I could see this if we were crooks and hurting people, but we give to missionaries in Africa and Mexico,” said Stan Peterson, 63, a carpet cleaner who serves as the church’s pastor.
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