After the controversial invite to anti-gay pastor Rick Warren to speak at President-elect Obama's inauguration, gay bishop gets a nod ...
The world's first openly gay bishop has been invited along to Obama inauguration day celebrations.
The Right Reverend Gene Robinson will offer a prayer at the Lincoln Memorial during next week's opening ceremony.
While the move is likely to make conservative members of the Anglican Church a little peeved, it's likely to go some way in appeasing gay people outraged at Warren's inclusion.
Anglicans worldwide have been grappling with the issue of gay clergy over the past few years, and Robinson's appointment as bishop almost six years ago has been a central issue in the argument threatening to tear the church apart.
Robinson told CNN that while he did not yet know what he was going to say during his prayer, he described the opportunity as "a remarkable and humbling thing to have happened."
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