Complex sentence: One of the organizers said that he had never seen so many gay people in one place before, and then made a speech thanking Bryant: "If God in his infinite wisdom had not created Anita Bryant, we would have had to invent her".
Split into simpler sentences: One of the organizers had never seen so many gay people in one place before. He thanked Bryant in a speech to the crowd: "If God in his infinite wisdom had not created Anita Bryant, we would have had to invent her".