Ok, so far Obama has totally shunned the gay community and HBO didn't carry this Gay Bishop's speech. How can gay America still look to Obama as fair? He's ashamed of gays. He used gays to get into office and then turned his back on them. He's an arrogant, selfish, self centered, black man with no track record of accomplishment. I challenge anyone to post a single accomplishment Obama made before becoming a candidate for President. He's nothing less than a wind bag. Full of hot air. He has done nothing so far as President to change anything for Americans. The first thing he did when he took office was to change the outlook for Muslims in prison at Guantanamo Bay. He has killed innocent civilians in Pakistan with missle attacks. He has chosen to spend American money to fund world wide abortion. He is a marxist and will soon turn his back on the entire nation with his New World Order. Our economy is in the shambles because of a conspiracy and if you think Obama is there to save you, you are dead wrong. DEAD WRONG. He is there to convince America to believe in him and then he will lead us away from our freedom. Soon your money will be worthless and not long after, a NEW WORLD ORDER system will be put into place. He's leading the nation into an abyss and no one is fighting. No one is awake. Do you not see what is happening? Is this a joke? Are we so desperate as a nation over our money and the economy that has been driven into the ground that we miss out on the big picture? The big picture shows that the super rich from around the world are setting up the masses for their control. Their order. Their law. Do not be surprise when the USA is dissolved and our constitutional rights are gone forever and replaced with a one world system that brings foreign troops into our beloved cities to monitor us, enforce new world order laws and in time brand us with the new world order's very own mark. I am warning all of you, gay and straight to beware of Obama. He is very dangerous.

On Sunday at the star-studded presidential inaugural concert attended by celebrities such as Bono, Tiger Woods, Beyonce, and Bruce Springsteen, the gay Bishop of New Hampshire Gene Robinson gave his prayer at 2:20 p.m, but alas, the HBO telecast was not going to start till 2.30 p.m. After the ensuing outcry among gay activists and various controversies began to spread among members of the gay community, Obama’s inaugural committee has stepped up to take full responsibility for their mistake. Obama’s last minute invitation to Bishop Robinson to pray for him was seen as a mea culpa, after his decision to appoint the anti-gay pastor and Prop 8 supporter Reverend Rick Warren to pray for him met with a torrent of criticism.

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Today’s inauguration of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth (what’s the obsession with numbers?) President of the USA was the first one I have watched on the Internet. Thank you, BBC. I guess it was appropriate, given the way Obama leveraged the web in his campaign.Actually, I can’t remember the last one I watched on the small screen. Watching on the web was a pragmatic decision, knowing that if I put it on the television, the children would cry out for Nick Junior.I didn’t catch the whole shebang, since I was dashing in and out of the study from the kitchen where I was cooking the family meal. What I saw of Obama impressed me. Yes, the words of his speech were very general, but I don’t see how they could be otherwise. I felt he communicated honesty and realism with his evident oratorical gifts. As everyone says, the real test will be in the days to come. Well, no surprise there.I caught a fair bit of Rick Warren’s prayer, but again not all of it. The whole of it was inevitably up on YouTube rather quickly:If I thought about it, there would probably be parts with which I would quibble. However, it seemed to me that the tone of Warren’s prayer was one of evangelical conviction combined with a reaching out rather than a tone of condemnation. You may feel differently - do say below.I found quite a contrast with Gene Robinson’s prayer earlier in the week, also available on YouTube:Now I admit openly that theologically I am far more likely to be close to Warren than Robinson. I also left a barbed comment on a friend’s Facebook page when she rejoiced that Obama had invited Robinson and that the bishop had promised not to be overtly Christian in reaching out to people of other faiths.But having said that, I felt I owed the man a fair hearing in case I had been wrong in the heat of the moment. So tonight I watched the clip above.And I’m still disappointed. I don’t want to get into the pro- or anti-gay issues here, there are larger questio...

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Last week, progressives cheered the news that the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church in New Hampshire and the first openly gay priest ordained by a major Christian denomination, would be delivering the invocation at President-elect Obama’s opening ceremony. Yesterday, however, viewers watching HBO — which had exclusive coverage of the opening ceremony — didn’t get to see Robinson’s invocation; the network never aired it. Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House Blend wrote: Remember, this was the supposed salve on the wound to the LGBT community for the upcoming high-profile appearance of Rick Warren at the actual inauguration on Tuesday, which will be seen by millions and will float out there on YouTube in perpetuity. I had no illusions that Robinson’s appearance would reach the same level of exposure as Warren’s, but damn — no broadcast of it at all?The site AfterElton.com contacted HBO yesterday, regarding the omission of Robinson from the network’s broadcast. HBO responded (via e-mail): “The producer of the concert has said that the Presidential Inaugural Committee made the decision to keep the invocation as part of the pre-show.” Michael Jensen of AfterElton wrote that it was unclear “as to whether or not that meant that HBO was contractually prevented from airing the pre-show.”Sarah Pulliam of Christianity Today managed to shoot video of Robinson’s invocation. Watch it: Robinson’s address yesterday was also marked by protesters from a group called “Brother Ruben and the Official Street Preachers” who shouted phrases such as, “Jesus doesn’t love homosexuals.”Pam’s House Blend has a round-up of reaction from LGBT bloggers here.

We watched the entire two-hour Inaugural Opening Ceremony, waiting to hear this inspiring, articulate invocation by Bishop Gene Robinson. How disappointing that HBO chose to silence such a voice, to hide the gay bishop form the sight of the entire TV viewing audience! I just hope that our President, Barack Obama, will know that this happened, that millions were not allowed to hear Bishop Robinson's prayer, and that this is another slap in the face for the entire LGBT community. The whole population is deprived of Bishop Robinson's uplifting, heartfelt words.

Blog: The gay Episcopal bishop's invocation yesterday did not, in the end, appear quite to counterbalance Rick Warren's star turn Tuesday.