Divisions deep in debate over Chillicothe anti-discrimination law

CHILLICOTHE — More sermon than speech, the words that thundered from the Rev. Mark Clendaniel at the most-recent meeting of a city-council committee raised a chorus of “amens” and brought much of the room to its feet in applause. “I think it’s time the church takes a stand,” said Clendaniel, who for more than 22 years has led Chillicothe’s Jefferson Avenue Church of Christ in Christian Union. He was speaking against a proposed non-discrimination ordinanc