Obama Inaugural Team Censors Homosexual Bishop From HBO Special

January 22, 2009 – President Barack Obama’s transition team worked out a deal with HBO to air his Sunday inaugural event at the Lincoln Memorial, but purposely left out homosexual Bishop Gene Robinson’s invocation prayer at the beginning of the event. According to an email provided by HBO: “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.”

One homosexual-run web site said this about Obama/Robinson: “Many in the gay community saw Robinson's selection to deliver Sunday's prayer as an olive branch. But given that most Americans could not attend the concert, instead having to watch it on television, the decision to not broadcast the prayer is being seen by many in the GLBT community as a slight. The exclusion of Robinson, even if unintentional, does not reflect well on the Obama administration's ability thus far to think through these sorts of nuances.”

The Obama team had touted Robinson’s participation in the inaugural event – and Robinson has bragged about serving as a behind-the-scenes advisor to Obama during the election campaign.

“It’s interesting that Obama would deliberately omit Robinson’s prayer for the HBO special – perhaps because he didn’t want to outrage millions of African-Americans who voted for him – but who are offended by homosexuality,” said TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty. “Obama got the support of Robinson for his election, then threw him under the bus when his appearance on HBO might have damaged his support.”

The video and transcript of Robinson’s censored prayer is provided here:

For the censored video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWWAnitUCw4

For the transcript:
http://www.nhepiscopal.org/artman/publish/article_750.shtml

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