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New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, a vocal gay rights leader, will open President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration with a prayer on Sunday's kick-off event at the Lincoln Memorial. "I am writing to tell you that President-Elect Obama and the Inaugural Committee have invited me to give the invocation at the opening event of the Inaugural Week activities, We are One, to be held at the Lincoln Memorial," Robinson wrote in an email to friends. The announcement comes after weeks of outcry from the gay community over Obama's choice of evangelical, anti-gay pastor Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation. |
Episcopal Life Media editor Solange De Santis speaks with New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson July 13 days before the July 16 opening of the Lambeth Conference, the decennial meeting of Anglican bishops. Robinson is one of the small number of bishops the Archbishop of Canterbury has not invited to the Lambeth Conference. |
| Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, said Wednesday that "God's love includes all of God's children, even gay and lesbian children." Fluent In Fear Part 1 Fluent In Fear Part 2 They Will Tell You Much... It Will Mean Nothing! TELL YOUR STORY: Congressional Oversite Panel View the Getting Out website. VIDEOS: The Biggest Game In Town WHAT IF?! |
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