Pastor sacked by the Super Bowl

The Birmingham News reports that a local pastor has been fired by his church for holding a compulsory attendance service during the Super Bowl. Denizens of Fark are greatly amused, but this doesn't pass my smell test. He tried to fire other ministers in the church for not showing up at the meeting so
this is not just a funny news story.

It's going to court, so there might be more to this story.