Gay Invocation Exclusion is Latest Leftist Uproar

Today is one of the most amazing holidays in my lifetime.

We have a Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday in which a huge majority of black Americans agrees that America's historic dream of inclusion has arrived. It's also the eve of one of the most historic events in our history, the day when the entire country is anticipating the accession to power of the first black president of the United States, Barack Obama.

But there's a big controversy this morning over the Bishop Gene Robinson's invocation last night at Obama's Lincoln Memorial celebration.

Apparently, HBO excluded Robinson's prayer from the national broadcast, and of course, the extremist gay rights lobby is screaming in outrage at the "bigotry." Some are suggesting that Barack Obama himself made the decision to exclude Robinson's invocation from the main ceremonies (Robinson's prayer was part of the "pre-show"), so on top of the backlash against Rick Warren we'll now have more gay protests against Obama's "hypocrisy of oppression."

It's probably better HBO didn't broadcast the prayer, which is almost exactly at odds with the message we should be having on this historic day. Here's Sarah Pulliam's take on the controversy:

Gene Robinson, the divisive figure who was the first openly Episcopal gay bishop, led the invocation at today's inaugural kickoff.

Robinson prayed for God to "bless this nation with anger – anger at discrimination, at home and abroad, against refugees and immigrants, women, people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people." He also prayed that God would bless us with "the understanding that our new president is a human being, not a messiah."

Overall, his prayer was not especially surprising, since Robinson had told the Concord Monitor that it wouldn't be "especially Christian" and wouldn't use a Bible.

It's no wonder that Robinson's creating a schism in the Episcopalian church. But it goes without saying that the radical left, even supposed people of faith in the movement, will continue to leverage cries of racism and discrimination, all the more to further the radical agenda that seeks ultimately to destroy the goodness that today's holiday represents.