(NOTE: Copies of what seemed to be a draft of an inaugural invocation by Pastor Rick Warren arrived in the fax machines of several prominent journalists this morning. This site does not vouch for the authenticity of the draft, although each of the statements does conform to material in Pastor Warren's speeches, interviews, or on his websites.)
O Lord, as we come together on this historic and solemn occasion to inaugurate a president and vice president. We pray, O Lord, for President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph Biden, to whom You have entrusted leadership of this nation at this moment in history.
We pray for their advisors and supporters, particularly their Jewish advisors and supporters, who will surely roast in hell if they do not abandon their refusal to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. Pray for the conversion of Obama chief advisor David Axelrod and his economic wise man Larry Summers, his early supporters Lester Crown and his campaign finance chair Penny Pritzker, for, as the Bible says, there will be a day when there will be a great revival of faith in God through Jesus among the Jewish people. (Romans 11). Obviously, this is a day that we, as believers in Christ, want to pray for! Let the light of Christian salvation come to the Jewish Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel and his family, some of whom survived the German effort to bring them to Christian truth in the last generation.
May all efforts to stop homosexuals from violating the ancient humanitarian institution of marriage succeed as did your will in California in the last election. Attend particularly, O lord, to President Obama's environmental chief Nancy Sutley, and to the man who has worked essentially without sleep for three months to save the American economy from total collapse, Representative Barney Frank. Use the government to bring an end to acts as bad as incest, pedophilia and polygamy, by stamping out homosexuality among the homosexuals, a people evolutionarily unfit, that we may truly become one nation before God. May the First Amendment to the Constitution protect all who want to compare homosexual sex to incest, pedophilia and polygamy from the arrows of hate speech accusations shot by the politically correct.
Change the hearts of the new administration's pro-choice advisors and supporters, including the Justices of the Supreme Court who stand here today with us: Holocaust denier Anthony Kennedy, holocaust denier Ruth Bader Ginzburg, holocaust denier David Souter, holocaust denier Stephen Breyer, and holocaust denier John Paul Stevens, who is about to swear in the Vice-President, in that abortion is a holocaust and the eighteen million or so women who have committed abortion in the thirty-five years since 1973 are thus no better than Nazis.
Bless the women, who have chosen to follow their ambitions into public life, but change the hearts, Lord, of Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton, Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano, United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis from independent lives of their own to submission to their husbands, if any, for I love the King James Version's rendition of Ephesians 5:22 "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands" and of course "Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ if God." 1 Corinthians 11:3. These women have chosen to participate in the public life of the community. Enlighten them as to the requirement that women not speak in church, saving any questions they have about their common life to ask their husbands as they return home.
Now, O Lord, despite the plain language of the Constitution that created this great nation, we dedicate this presidential inaugural ceremony to You. May this be the beginning of a new dawn for America as we humble ourselves before You and acknowledge You alone as our Lord, our Savior and our Redeemer. We pray this in the name of the Father, and of the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Dear God, please do it my way and ask him NOT to do a stupid and petty prayer PLEASE !!!
At this most historic Inaugurati
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"
Judge not the president by symbolic acts, but judge him by whatever the hell he actually does as president.
He also forgotto pray to O'Lord for women who do not have an intact hy.men but who are to be married to immediatel
He also forgot to pray to O'Lord that women who have been raped immediatel
had you ever watched an inaugurati
Oh well, Obama's leftist base is cracking already and he isn't even in office yet, fortunatel
Please join us after for coffee, tea and squares prepared by our ladies auxiliary.
yes its so sad, every president whose been an inaugurati
truly horrible
Actually, prayers by clergy at inaugurati
Frankly, it is highly inappropri
President Obama should take whatever personal guidance and support he wants from his personal faith, but there's no reason to have it as part of public, government
For more informatio
As if an abstract concept like "Christian
Or "marriage"
Its pathetic that Pastor Warren.. .. is even present at the inaugural ceremonies
I'm going to start sounding like a broken record.... an invocation has nothing to do with the separation of church and state. The separation of church and state means that there can be no state mandated religion. So much for understand
I'm sure things north of the great lakes are so much different and better, that you decided to come to Cleveland because you hate the way we do things. Oh wait, I get your argument, you don't have one...
The US is a democracy. And in a democracy, ignoring the crackpot is folly.
Very well said. That's why I come to Huffington Post, because it would be folly if I ignored it...
Whoever put this 'prayer' out there is just misleading people about who Rick Warren really is.
It is unfortunat
I agree with you that following the bible makes if very hard to understand christiani