Robinson's Consecration is a warning to Catholics

By Ian Hunter
February 25, 2009

Almost lost in the hoopla and hysteria surrounding the presidential inauguration was the particular clergyman chosen by President Barack Obama to pray at the event held Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

The man chosen was Episcopal Bishop Eugene Robinson. This is the same Gene Robinson who abandoned his wife and family to live with his homosexual lover; the same man whose installation as Bishop of New Hampshire split the U.S. church and deepened the schism in the worldwide Anglican Communion; the same Robinson who said that he had studied the prayers offered up at prior inaugurations and was "horrified" at how "specifically and aggressively Christian" they were. Well, no danger this time. "I will be careful not to be especially Christian in my prayers", the Bishop promised.

What a relief. For a moment, I was worried that the ears of the Almighty might be assailed by specifically Christian prayers, but Bishop Gene promised only to address "...the God of our many understandings". I am sure that he did so in suitably inclusive language designed not to offend the great marshmallow in the sky. The God of the Bible might have been offended, but then this pareticular Bishop has long since cast aside that odious collection of preachy fables.
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