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		<title>Gay, Married Bishop to Lead Prayer at Inaugural Kickoff Event</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matthew DeLong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not content to have just one controversial clergyman in a lead role at his inauguration celebration, President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly tapped a married gay bishop to lead the prayer at an event Sunday.
From Playbook:
BREAKING: The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, who became the Episcopal Church&#8217;s first openly gay bishop in 2003 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not content to have just <a title="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-obama-invocat_n_151877.html" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-obama-invocat_n_151877.html" target="_blank">one controversial clergyman in a lead role at his inauguration celebration</a>, President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly tapped a married gay bishop to lead the prayer at an event Sunday.</p>
<p>From <a title="http://www.politico.com/playbook/" href="http://www.politico.com/playbook/" target="_blank">Playbook</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>BREAKING: The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, who became the Episcopal Church&#8217;s first openly gay bishop in 2003 and last year entered into a civil union with his gay partner, will deliver the invocation for Sunday&#8217;s kickoff inaugural event on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, with President-elect Obama in attendance. The event is free and open to the public.</p></blockquote>
<p>Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Rick Warren!<span id="more-24846"></span></p>
<p>Oh, by the way, according to the transition, the move has absolutely nothing to do with Rick Warren. Also from Playbook:</p>
<blockquote><p>An Obama source: &#8216;Robinson was in the plans before the complaints about Rick Warren. Many skeptics will read this as a direct reaction to the Warren criticism – but it&#8217;s just not so.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>No word yet on whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin&#8217;s <a title="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/the-witch-hunter-anoints_b_128805.html" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/the-witch-hunter-anoints_b_128805.html" target="_blank">witch-hunting pastor</a> is planning to come to Washington to protect Obama from black magic.</p>
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