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...very Obama-like to reach out and to cross boundaries to constituencies that didn't vote for him. Forming relationships with conservative evangelicals is a good and positive part of creating a big tent. This is a leader who isn't worried about what people think. He asked Gene Robinson to pray as well, he tapped Sharon Watkins to give the sermon at the prayer service. (See pictures of Reverend Billy Graham...
Plouffe, Chao, Ridge, and Washington Post columnist Eugene H. Robinson will join the IOP as visiting fellows, spending a few weeks each on campus throughout the spring...
That concert also showed, though, that you can't just wish acrimony away. There was an immediate controversy when a prayer by gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson was left off the HBO broadcast. There's a whole talk-show industry devoted to feeding those "stale political arguments." And we've seen overblown predictions before that events would ennoble American culture--see, again, 9/11...
...Obama's Inauguration will follow the recent pattern of being Protestant-only. In addition, the Inauguration team chose Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson to offer the prayer at Sunday's opening-ceremony concert, and it selected Sharon Watkins, head of the Protestant denomination Disciples of Christ, to deliver the sermon at Wednesday's national prayer service. Which brings the tally of marquee religious figures to: Protestant ministers, 4; rabbis and Catholic priests, 0. (See pictures of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America...
...fact remains, though, that the major speaking slots for religious figures will be filled this year by Protestant Christians. It's possible that Obama aides got so tied up in a search for ideological diversity - Warren is a theologically conservative Evangelical, Lowery a feisty political liberal, Robinson the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church and Watkins the first woman given such a prominent religious spot in an Inauguration ceremony - that they gave up on a goal of ecumenism. It's also likely that at a time when politicians use the phrase "church, synagogue or mosque" and both Hanukkah...