Oh, twist!

Check out this this amazing clip. At first he's all God's plan this, homosexuals that, but then-you didn't watch it did you? What, you don't have two minutes? Yeah, that's what I thought. Here's the link again, I'll wait...finished? Great. Pretty cool huh?

Nobody with glasses that hipster could possibly be against gay rights.

The 50's: famous for seething racial
hatred and hats. They were big on hats.

That's a guy named Philip Snider pretending to rail against gay rights before revealing that he pieced his rant together from pro-segregation arguments made by white preachers in the 1950's. He pulled his rhetorical switch-a-roo back in August at a Springfield Missouri City Council hearing on whether or not to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the anti-discrimination ordinance, the youtube video only got wide attention a couple of days ago.


That night, hundreds attended and 77 signed up to speak. Of those, 46 spoke in favor and 31 spoke against. So yeah 46 people are all for it and that's awesome, but that leaves 31 people. 31 people actually got in their cars and drove to city hall on a Monday night to take a stand for discrimination. Can you believe it? Don't they have anything better to do?

Turns out they all DVR'd 2 Broke Girls.

"Hey, maybe we could all try not being jerks
to eachother. I don't know, sound good?"

-Some guy

Anyway, in case you were wondering, the dude wasn't kidding, he is a for real minister. The Reverend Dr. Philip Snider, Senior Minister at Brentwood Christian Church. Yup. That would make Snider himself a white southern preacher. Bam. Take that, expectations. And take a look at Snider's blog wherein he responds to the attention his speech has received and also re-enforces his assertion that Christianity needn't be hostile towards gay rights. Wow. That strange sensation you're feeling? That's hope for the future of humanity. Takes some getting used to, huh?