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Posted on 10/02/2003 2:11:55 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
The 38-year-old man alleged to have had sex in a public area of New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral has died of a heart attack while awaiting trial.
Brian Florence's attorney announced to a surprised courtroom Tuesday that his client died last week in Alexandria, Va., the New York Daily News reported.
"We're told that it was heart failure. It was very sudden. The family is still in a state of shock," defense attorney Maranda Fritz told reporters outside the courtroom. Florence – who along with his girlfriend, Loretta Harper, 36, had planned to plead guilty to disorderly conduct – was buried Monday, Fritz said.
The judge adjourned the case until next month when Harper will return to court.
Florence and Harper were arrested inside the cathedral after being caught having sex as part of a radio stunt. Radio producer Paul Mercurio, 43, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct Tuesday and was sentenced to seven days of community service, according to the Daily News.
Radio shock jocks Gregg Hughes and Anthony Cumia of WNEW put the couple up to the stunt. Both announcers were fired after the arrest of Florence and Harper.
An usher at the cathedral discovered the couple in a side entrance vestibule. According to the paper, their activity was visible to about 20 worshipers and tourists.
Mercurio, who provided live on-air commentary of the stunt, later apologized.
"Since the show, I realized how inappropriate these actions were. I have apologized personally to monsignors at St. Patrick's Cathedral and apologize publicly now for the disrespect we showed the church, its parishioners and the people of the City of New York," he is quoted by the paper as saying.
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this should give Sapphira great pause
ACTS 5:4.....You have not lied to men but to God." 5 When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened.
6Then the young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.
more impressive perhaps to those that see darkly
His tone however is quite clear to most if not all believers.
I see the timing just right, on the eve of mans "justice". If it happened right after the incident, you'd be saying his heart couldnt take the strain of being busted, no?
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding! (See tag line)
His tone however is quite clear to most if not all believers.
I see the timing just right, on the eve of mans "justice". If it happened right after the incident, you'd be saying his heart couldnt take the strain of being busted, no?
Err.. no.
Come now, how many awful things have happened in and to churches and cathedrals down the centuries? Was every incident subject to such divine censure? I doubt it. Vikings who slaughtered monks and priests directly before the altar, blaspheming the holy sanctuary with gouts of innocent blood and stealing priceless church treasures, came back the following year and did it all over again.
Of course, to some people, having a shag in public is much more reprehensible than disembowelling a priest or monk.
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