An interesting turn of events--more on the prayer schedule for the Inaugural
I just found out something really, really cool on my new friend popfiend's recent post on the choice of Rick Warren to offer the invocation at the inauguration ceremonies...
One of the things I know I forgot, and maybe y'all did, too, is that there are actually two official prayers offered at the inaugural--both an invocation and a benediction.
The man who will be offering the benediction is Rev. Joseph Lowery who, among other things, signed the United Methodists of Color for a Fully Inclusive Church Statement. So he is a minister well known for his actions in not only the civil rights movement for people of color, but also one of the ministers in this country to take an unapologetic stand for the rights of the LGBT community as well.
Reverend Lowery is the former president of the SCLC, and spoke at Coretta Scott King's funeral, denouncing the Bush administration's willingness to indulge in a war based on deception, and to take money better spent in helping American citizens in poverty and dumping it into that war. President Bush was in attendance for that speech, and therefore was made to listen, silently, to Reverend Lowry's call for the abandonment of the Bush agenda and to the pursuit of peace...
Yeah. This is the guy who is going to have the last word at the Inaugural.
Being a Libra, I appreciate the balance.
One of the things I know I forgot, and maybe y'all did, too, is that there are actually two official prayers offered at the inaugural--both an invocation and a benediction.
The man who will be offering the benediction is Rev. Joseph Lowery who, among other things, signed the United Methodists of Color for a Fully Inclusive Church Statement. So he is a minister well known for his actions in not only the civil rights movement for people of color, but also one of the ministers in this country to take an unapologetic stand for the rights of the LGBT community as well.
Reverend Lowery is the former president of the SCLC, and spoke at Coretta Scott King's funeral, denouncing the Bush administration's willingness to indulge in a war based on deception, and to take money better spent in helping American citizens in poverty and dumping it into that war. President Bush was in attendance for that speech, and therefore was made to listen, silently, to Reverend Lowry's call for the abandonment of the Bush agenda and to the pursuit of peace...
Yeah. This is the guy who is going to have the last word at the Inaugural.
Being a Libra, I appreciate the balance.