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| Obama invites gay bishop to offer prayer at inauguration ceremony |
| 2009-01-13 |
| US president-elect Barack Obama has invited the world's first openly gay Anglican bishop to offer the prayer that will mark the beginning of the inauguration festivities. In an email sent to a US blog yesterday the Right Rev Gene Robinson, of New Hampshire, said it would be an "enormous honour" to offer prayers for the country and its new president at the Lincoln Memorial. He wrote that he was "humbled and overjoyed" at the news and took the invitation as a sign of Obama's commitment to being "president of all the people". |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 There will be plenty of holiday celebrations during the Obama presidency. Just because the president-elect doesn't believe, does not imply that his wife and children also do not, nor his mother-in-law. His familyis very, very important to the man whose own parents dumped him one after another until he ended up with his Red-diapering grandparents. However, I fail to understand why Mr. Obama would choose to interject himself into the Anglican mess, about which the participants feel so very strongly. Perhaps he just doesn't realize that there are issues. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-01-13 21:14 |
| #6 Guess the Reverend Dr. Wright was busy. |
| Posted by: rwv 2009-01-13 20:17 |
| #5 What, no Wiccans? |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-01-13 19:44 |
| #4 O is not a believer, so why should he care? Expect to see the last White House Christmas and easter egg hunt in his term as well. This is going to be a painfull four years. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2009-01-13 16:39 |
| #3 What a wonderful choice to represent the religious. What would be better is if he were black, or a woman, or a disabled dwarf-gay-bishop. But those are prolly hard to come by. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2009-01-13 15:08 |
| #2 Let the pandering commence! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-13 13:06 |
| #1 "Don we now our Gay apparel, Falala, lalala, la, la, la. I look just like my Aunt Carol Falalalala, la, la, la, la." |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2009-01-13 12:34 |