1.0 link 157076 <![CDATA[Gene Robinson: Gay Bishop Giving Obama Inauguration Prayer]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/12/gene-robinson-gay-bishop_n_157076.html New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, a vocal gay rights leader, will open President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration with a prayer on Sunday's kick-off event at the Lincoln Memorial.

"I am writing to tell you that President-Elect Obama and the Inaugural Committee have invited me to give the invocation at the opening event of the Inaugural Week activities, We are One, to be held at the Lincoln Memorial," Robinson wrote in an email to friends.

The announcement comes after weeks of...

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