From Keen-The Washington National Cathedral, which has hosted the National Prayer Service at inaugurals since Franklin Roosevelt’s first inauguration in 1933, made news earlier this month when it announced it would begin allowing same-sex couples who are affiliated with the church to hold their marriage ceremonies at the historic landmark. The Cathedral is affiliated with the Episcopal Church. The General Convention of the Episcopal Church voted last August to allow the bishop of each diocese to decide whether to allow the celebration of same-sex marriages. The Very Rev. Gary Hall, dean of Washington National Cathedral, has announced January 9 that, effective immediately, same-sex weddings may be celebrated at the Cathedral.
And the Presidential Inauguration Committee has invited the Episcopal pastor of a church near the White House that the Obama family attends to deliver the benediction at the inaugural ceremony Monday.
Rev. Luis Leon, who press reports indicates is a “gay-affirming” clergyman at Saint John’s Church which also celebrates marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples, will deliver the benediction. He replaces Atlanta pastor Louie Giglio who withdrew from the ceremony after criticism surfaced about remarks he made in a sermon in the 1990s, calling homosexualiy “probably the greatest addiction” and saying that marriage between same-sex partners is “absolutely undermining the whole order of our society.”
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http://www.keennewsservice.com/2013/01/19/inaugural-pastors-now-more-moderate/
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