REMANATIONS

So Bishop Gene Robinson, the openly-gay Episopal bishop who left his wife and children to marry his homosexual lover, gave the prayer at the opening inaugural event for Barack Obama tonight. (HT: Denny Burk)

He addressed his prayer to “the God of our many understandings” (whoever the heck that is) and prayed for an end to discrimination of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people as well as a move from “mere tolerance” to a “genuine respect and warm embrace of our differences.” I get all warm and fuzzy just thinking about it.

But the coup-de-grace was this part of his prayer:

Bless us with compassion and generosity – remembering that every religion’s God judges us by the way we care for the most vulnerable in the human community, whether across town or across the world.

“…Across our town or across our world…unless you live in a womb somewhere. Then you have the moral significance of fingernail clippings.”

As Christians, we should never tire in pointing out the hypocrisy of those who cloak their idolatry and rebellion in the language of “compassion and generosity” while “tolerating” the slaughter of “the most vulnerable in the human community,” especially when they are also cloaked in the vestments of a bishop.