The change you’ve been waiting for: Barack Obama Asked Openly Gay Episcopal Bishop to Say Prayer at Inaugural Event
Barack Obama’s decision to have a prominent gay bishop open his inaugural festivities Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial is 
the latest in a series of moves that have heartened gay rights advocates smarting over evangelical pastor Rick Warren’s prime spot at the swearing-in ceremony next week.
The families accompanying Obama on a train ride here from Philadelphia on Sunday include a lesbian couple. Nancy Sutley, a Los Angeles deputy mayor who is gay, has been named to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Gay advocates say they believe more gay appointments are in the offing.
Incoming White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, though he didn’t give a time frame, recently told a questioner at www.change.gov that Obama plans to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that requires gay members of the military to hide their sexual orientation.
The Rev. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, an early Obama supporter who advises him on gay issues, said he was invited more than two weeks ago to appear at the Lincoln Memorial. The Episcopal bishop said he was not asked in reaction to the furor over Warren, who has compared gay marriage to incest, pedophilia and polygamy.
“They made it very clear with me, and I certainly do believe them, that this was in the works for some time,” Robinson told
The bishop told the Concord Monitor last weekend he will not be referring to the Bible.
“While that is a holy and sacred text to me, it is not for many Americans,” he said. “I will be careful not to be especially Christian in my prayer. This is a prayer for the whole nation.”
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This guy was on his way to heaven… then he started to blow it, big time! So now… to hell with him!