From The Associated Press-There may be no clearer reflection of this moment in American religious life than the tensions surrounding prayers at President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Efforts by the Presidential Inaugural Committee to bridge the conservative-liberal divide by including an evangelical failed. Atlanta preacher Louie Giglio, known for his work to end human trafficking, withdrew from giving the benediction after the liberal group ThinkProgress found a sermon he gave in the 1990s, condemning gay relationships.
Meanwhile, the first layperson has been asked to give the invocation, at a time when the number of Americans with no formal religious ties has hit a high around 20 percent. The prayer was delivered by Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights hero Medgar Evers. The ceremony Monday fell on the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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http://www.clarionledger.com/viewart/20130126/FEAT04/301260045/Religious-tensions-play-out-inauguration
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