Pastor Phil Sniders Speech to the Springfield City Council Video and Background Information

For those of my reader’s who have not read Pastor Snider’s speech, here is the video below. He is delivering it to the Springfield Missouri City Council during what appear to be hearings on Springfield Missouri Council Bill 2012-226 ( you can read the bill on their web site here in PDF or in this Google preview of that bill here).  Here is what the bill is all about, I copied it directly from the bill itself:

AMENDING Chapter 2, Administration, Article IV, Boards, Commissions and Committees, Division 4, Mayor’s Commission on Human Rights and Community Relations, section 2-223; and Chapter 62, Human Rights, to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of categories of  persons protected from discrimination, to consolidate the Commission’s investigative process into a single division of the Code, and to clarify the Commission’s powers in light of recent court decisions. (The Community Involvement Committee recommends approval)

So the bill is about extending LGBT protections.  I would encourage my readers to check out Pastor Snider’s words directly, from his blog, regarding his thoughts on his speech by reading his post, “About The Springfield City Council Speech“

For those interested in more of the backstory on that evening and the bill please checkout:

1 – City of Springfield Press Release “Large Number of Speakers Scheduled for Council Meeting“

2 – Local Coverage by Ozark’s First.com  “City Hall Packed as Council Takes Up Nondiscrimination, Marijuana Issues“

3 – Patsor John Lindell offers his view as to why the amendment should be stricken, “Springfield’s Discrimination Law Change“