Posted on 01/19/2009 7:34:53 PM PST by pillut48
The inauguration invocation is the high profile event for a member of the clergy. It’s only been around since 1937, but it’s grounded in a rich, religious history that’s helped shaped this country.
At President-elect Barak Obama’s inauguration, Pastor Rick Warren will have the honors. Pastor Warren is the senior minister of Saddleback Church in Southern California and the uber-bestselling author of “The Purpose Driven Life.” Liberals objected to Warren because of his conservative views, specifically his support of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in California.
What some see as a move to placate the gay and Lesbian community was the selection of the openly-gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson to say the prayer for the star-studded, kick-off of the inaugural week. The Inaugural Committee says it wasn’t about “righting” a perceived “wrong.” They said Bishop Robinson had been on their list for a while and they chose him for his message of inclusive civil rights.
But the reality is that selecting Gene Robinson for any inaugural event would make headlines. Bishop Robinson is the openly gay bishop whose elevation has caused a riff, or even schism, in the Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion. Court battles over property are ongoing as conservative Episcopal congregations and dioceses leave over the issue of homosexuality and authority of the Bible.
My greatest shock, though, upon reading stories about Bishop Robinson’s inclusion was not that he’s an openly gay minister living with his partner. No. My biggest shock was that Robinson commented in The New York Times about past inaugural prayers. He said he was “horrified” at how “specifically and aggressively Christian they were.”
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In answer to your question, I doubt it.
I suggested yesterday that they bring in a Shinto priest but nobody listened. Now they're stuck with this old gay guy who's going to embarrass everybody.
Isn’t a Muslim speaking too?
What in the world constitutes “aggressively” Christian in a prayer. Does the pastor threaten to hold everyone against their will and do the Muslim thang on them...”convert or die!!” It must be aggressive now to mention the J word in front of so many people. He prayed in the name of Jesus! Oh cover your ears!
This country is starting to make me ill.
That is one terrifying cartoon.
You know, it’s not nice to call a Christian clergyman an idiot, so I won’t. I’ll just say this: Gene Robinson could engage Trig Palin in a theological argument and lose.
Rick Warren is just a different branch of this PC attitude. He’s a megachurch pop-Christologist.
That was combined with some news about a local religious reformer named Mohammad, and then appended to some local history and color.
What the Moslem believes (in terms of sexual behavior) is probably not as far removed from Christian views as the views of the Episcopal guy.
Warren comes closest to being in the Christian tradition of course. The gal from the DOC still has the whiff of the Jim Jones doctrines about her and should not have been allowed on the stage.
The Catholics have been wise to stay away from this one.
Hah-hah... I missed that one at first.
Nah, just a Unitarian/atheist who wants to be 'called by the name of Christ (Christian), to take away his reproach'...
**The Catholics have been wise to stay away from this one. **
Absolutely. Especially if Obama does something with a pro-abortion signing tomorrow.
I could’ve said it longer, but I couldn’t have said it better. Wonderful way to express how most of us feel! Thanks!
I just think we’re in the end times and this shouldn’t surprise us. satan is at work.
Wow! Can you imagine if this crowd had been present, March 4,1805,when President Thomas Jefferson, offered a National Prayer for peace:
It began: “Almighty God Who has given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land .......”
And it ended with: “In time of prosperity fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail; all of which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.”
I’m worried about what HolyO’s plans are for Israel and the unborn tomorrow! But I know God is in control so I’m going to leave the worrying to him! “Fret not...”
Praying to fret not!
(see my tagline!)
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I am soooooooo sick and tired of liberals warping and perverting the beliefs of our Founding Fathers, saying they didn’t actually believe in God per se (Lies!!) so that’s why they set up that ‘separation of church and state’ thing in that flawed Constitution thingie!!!
And I could just rip my hair out when people ‘quote’ that as being in the Constitution!! Arggghhhhhhhh!!!
>:-(
It’s OK. Robinson isn’t a Christian. How do I know? He doesn’t follow the Word! Calling yourself something doesn’t transform you into it.
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