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Looks like someone at the inauguration committee smartened up and googled the man. Should have done it in the first place.
Louis Giglio, the anti-LGBT pastor who had been announced to perform the benediction at President Obama’s second inauguration, has been removed from the program, ABC News’s Jonathan Karl reported Thursday.
The move came after ThinkProgress reported Wednesday that in the 1990s, Giglio had given a lengthy sermon in which he advocated for dangerous “ex-gay” therapy for gay and lesbian people, referenced a biblical passage often interpreted to require gay people be executed, and impelled Christians to “firmly respond to the aggressive agenda” and prevent the “homosexual lifestyle” from becoming accepted in society.
ADDED- ABC News now reporting Rev Giglio pulled himself from the ceremony because he saw it was becoming a “distraction”.
This president sure is full of firsts.
There has not been another inaugural poet like Richard Blanco.
Out of the five people selected to read an original poem at a presidential inauguration, the 44-year-old Blanco will be the first Latino, first gay man, and youngest person to serve the role. The presidential inaugural committee officially announced the choice of Blanco, the son of Cuban exiles, on Wednesday.
“Even though it’s been a few weeks since I found out, just thinking about my parents and my grandparents and all the struggles they’ve been through, and how, you know, here I am, first-generation Cuban-American, and this great honor that has just come to me, and just feeling that sense of just incredible gratitude and love,” he said in an interview with NPR.
Renowned poets such as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou has previously served the role. In the next 11 days, Blanco will write an original poem and recite it at the public inauguration ceremony on Monday, Jan. 21.
“It is an honor to have Richard Blanco in our second inauguration,” Obama said in a statement. “His contributions to the fields of poetry and art have paved the way for future generations of writers. Richard’s work is well-suited for an opening that will celebrate the strength and diversity of our great country.”
From the Department of Awesomesauce:
President Obama’s inauguration will be held on the Martin Luther King holiday, January 21st. Think about it, the first African American president will be sworn in for his second term on the Martin Luther King holiday observance:
The 2013 Presidential Inauguration will be held in Washington DC on Monday, January 21, 2013. By law, the President must take his Oath of Office on January 20th before noon. Since the 20th falls on a Sunday, there will be a private ceremony on that date and the public ceremony will be held the following day. A week of festivities will include the Presidential Swearing in Ceremony, Inaugural Address, Inaugural Parade and a night of Inaugural Balls and galas honoring the elected President of the United States.
The sound you’ll hear will be many a GOP head exploding. A “blah” president who got re-elected by an enthusiastic electorate by a wide margin; a “blah” president who will serve a second term; a “blah” president who is making history– again; a “blah” president will be inaugurated on a day that celebrates another remarkable “blah” man.
And all those people who have been dogwhistling and whining and screaming their fool heads off about”blah” “incompetent” Susan Rice and “blah” President Obama will be watching his inauguration come to pass. Again.
I wonder if they’ll be planning another Inauguration Night Conspiracy, as they did back in ’09.
If only all these angry, scared, small-minded white people who feel so threatened by not-white people could accept and embrace their fellow Americans, we’d have even more to celebrate.
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