Gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson said Monday that Barack Obama has asked him to give an inauguration prayer, an apparent attempt to quell anger over the president-elect's plans to have a controversial megachurch pastor as the highlighted clergyman.
Robinson, an outspoken gay-rights advocate whose leadership has divided the church, told the Concord Monitor in his home state of New Hampshire he will deliver his prayer at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday — two days before Pastor Rick Warren gives the invocation on Inauguration Day.
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