LGBT, Obama Admin, Politics, Society & World
19 January 2009 | 3 Comments
HBO made it necessary for someone from the Obama side to speak up after the network shifted the blame of the exclusion of openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson from the telecast of the inaugural concert.
Presidential Inaugural Committee communications director Josh Earnest got to do the speaking (and, yes, I got a mild chuckle out of [...]
Tagged in Gene Robinson, inauguration, invocation, Presidential Inaugural Committee, Rick Warren
LGBT, Obama Admin, Politics, Society & World
19 January 2009 | 4 Comments
Large sections of the progressive community did not take well to Obama’s choice of Pastor Rick Warren for the inaugural invocation. It was then announced that Gene Robinson, an openly gay bishop, would be delivering an opening prayer before the inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial. A far smaller billing than Warren and it read [...]
Tagged in Gene Robinson, inaugural concert, inaugural prayer, inauguration, Rick Warren
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