After weeks of wrangling, a representative of the Satanic Temple of Northwest Florida delivered the invocation at the Pensacola City Council meeting Thursday night.
Council President Charles Bare gaveled the meeting into session. But as David Suhor, in a black hooded robe, prepared to give the invocation, members of the gallery began drowning him out with Christian prayers.
Bare eventually stood up and used his gavel in an attempt to quiet the audience, or at least keep their comments at a lower level. When that failed he threatened to clear the room.
“Then I’m going to have to ask you all to leave, so [Suhor] can give his invocation,” said Bare. “I can clear the chambers if I like [but] I don’t want to have to do that.”
Some left the chamber, but many remained and stayed relatively quiet when Suhor began his invocation in the form of a song.
According to an email sent to WUWF from a member of the Satanic Temple, Suhor is not a member of that group, its members are actually atheist, using a mythical Satan to encourage free will; they would prefer no religious rituals at secular meetings.
Many in the audience lined up to address the Council in opposition to Suhor’s presence at the meeting. Among them, Dennis Tackett.
“I did not come to criticize him, or judge him; Christ does not give me the right to do that,” said Tackett. “Instead, as I said to Mr. Suhor, I’ve come tonight to pray for the Council; we’ve come to pray for one another, and most importantly, I came to pray for Mr. Suhor.”
Other speakers during the open forum used Bible chapter and verse to condemn Suhor’s invocation, and then Suhor, minus his hooded robe, returned to address the Council.
“This should be a place where anybody can come and address their government without feeling like a minority [and] being prayed over again and again in a way that’s frankly offensive,” said Suhor.
The city clerk’s office handles booking and setting up invocations for Council meetings, but beyond that there’s no set protocol. Suhor urged the Council to adopt rules consistent with Town of Greece, New York vs. Galloway, the 2014 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opens the door for all faiths, or the lack of one, to open government meetings.
“You need to set a time limit, you need random choosing,” Suhor said. “You need to invite anyone. If you cannot do that, then you need to drop this charade altogether.”
A special meeting on invocation policy last week produced no changes. A proposal for a moment of silence before City Council meetings was tossed beforehand by President Charles Bare. In a legal opinion in 2014, then-City Attorney Rusty Wells said the current process meets constitutional requirements of the law.
The Pensacola City Council meets in special session this week, on possible changes to its process of scheduling those wishing to provide an invocation.
At issue is a request, granted earlier this year, for local activist David Suhor to deliver the invocation before the Council’s July 14th meeting, on behalf of the Satanic Temple of West Florida.
The County Commission is expected to revisit debate on handing out revenue from the six-cent-per-gallon levy to the county, Pensacola, and the Town of Century for road paving and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“There’s been a formula between the city and county for a significant amount of time, and that formula every 10 years has to be renewed. We are at the time of that renewal,” said Escambia County Commission Chairman Grover Robinson.
Eight months after first going before the Pensacola City Council, a proposed ordinance to set up a lobbyist registry is close to being resurrected.
“Anyone that’s coming down on behalf of another individual or business that wants to lobby the council or myself, we need to recognize that [and] they need to be transparent about it,” said Hayward last January.
The Pensacola City Council held a workshop Monday on the 11 charter amendments, which range from minor tweaks to scrapping the charter altogether and returning to the previous council-manager form of government.
“We had a very interesting discussion, some of it very contentious. What came out of it, I think, is that we have a pretty divided Council on most of these issues,” said Councilman Larry B. Johnson, who represents the city’s 4th District.
While some council members argue strong mayor-council hasn’t succeeded, Johnson says the jury’s still out.
A public workshop has been set by the Pensacola City Council, on a proposed non-discrimination ordinance sponsored by Councilman Brian Spencer.
Pensacola’s current non-discrimination ordinance, passed more than 30 years ago, deals only with fair housing. Spencer’s proposal expands it to include employment and public accommodations.
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