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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts) Mon Oct 22, 2012, 08:14 PM Oct 2012

Preacher who delivered anti-gay rights diatribe at a town hall meeting is my new hero.

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Let me introduce you to my new hero, Preacher Phil Snyder. During a town hall meeting in Springfield MO about banning gay marriage, Preacher Snyder gave a fire-and-brimstone speech denouncing gay marriage, quoting God and Scripture...and then stopped himself midway and revealed that he had been swapping the words “racial integration” for “gay rights” to make his point...and, in point of fact, the words he was reading were direct quotes from sermons against ending segregation given by white preachers in the 50s and 60s.

“You see the right of segregation – I’m sorry, hold on,” he said, interrupting his anti-gay rights diatribe to reveal his real purpose at the microphone. “I’m sorry, I’ve brought the wrong notes with me this evening. I’ve borrowed my argument from the wrong century.”

“I guess the arguments I’ve been hearing around Springfield lately sounded so similar to these that I got them confused,” he said “I hope you will not make the same mistake. I hope you will stand on the right side of history.”

Watch:

NY Daily News story on the event: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/watch-pastor-passionate-anti-gay-rights-speech-twist-article-1.1189388

Win.

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Preacher who delivered anti-gay rights diatribe at a town hall meeting is my new hero. (Original Post) WilliamPitt Oct 2012 OP

Thanks for that explanation from every poor wretch like me who is on dialup. dimbear Oct 2012 #1

Heh! I didn't look at the earlier posts with this video because... DollarBillHines Oct 2012 #2

Missouri, I believe he said, not Miss. Not that there's that much diff! CurtEastPoint Oct 2012 #3

I'm really sad to tell you that the story is a bit off, its Sringfield Missouri, not Mississippi Rowdyboy Oct 2012 #4

Thank you WilliamPitt Oct 2012 #6

His last name is SnIder, not Snyder kath Oct 2012 #5

Yes, he played that very well. nt. OldDem2012 Oct 2012 #7

dimbear

(6,271 posts)

1. Thanks for that explanation from every poor wretch like me who is on dialup.

Reply to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 08:16 PM

Oct 2012

DollarBillHines

(1,922 posts)

2. Heh! I didn't look at the earlier posts with this video because...

Reply to dimbear (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 08:27 PM

Oct 2012

I assumed it ended with a pie-in-the-face.

Or something like that.

CurtEastPoint

(18,664 posts)

3. Missouri, I believe he said, not Miss. Not that there's that much diff!

Reply to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 08:51 PM

Oct 2012

Rowdyboy

(22,057 posts)

4. I'm really sad to tell you that the story is a bit off, its Sringfield Missouri, not Mississippi

Reply to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 08:54 PM

Oct 2012

I knew it was too good to be true and I've never heard of a Springfield here so I poked around a little.

http://www.towleroad.com/missouri/

Its still an incredibly fabulous story and I'm really disappointed that it wasn't MY state but somehow I just knew.

Thanks for posting it-it's the best thing I've seen all day (5 minutes before debate time so the day is young!)