CONCORD, N.H. – The first openly gay Episcopal bishop will offer a prayer at the Lincoln Memorial at an inaugural event for President-elect Barack Obama.
The selection of New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson for Sunday's event follows weeks of criticism from gay-rights groups over Obama's decision to have the Rev. Rick Warren give the invocation at his Jan. 20 inauguration.
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Here we have the characteristic Obama quid pro quo. The "conservative" pastor Rick Warren is tapped to offer the invocation at Obama's inauguration and the liberals are outraged, so to assuage their ire, the "liberal" Gene Robinson will offer an oration of his own. A little for you, a little for me. Obama calls this "coming together" but he just ends up enraging both sides.
Of course, Lincoln was not a founding father, but I wonder if Mr. Robinson has read what the founders of this nation thought regarding homosexual acts. Students of history should pick up Richard Brookhiser's excellent book What Would the Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers and read the chapter entitled Liberty and Law. It's unlikely that Lincoln would veer from the founding fathers' way of dealing with sodomy. But who cares about history, much less our founders, anymore? Obama is the president-elect.
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