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Pastor withdraws from Obama inauguration after sermon on homosexuality surfaces
Published January 10, 2013

A Georgia pastor selected to deliver the benediction during President Obama's inauguration has pulled out of the ceremony after comments surfaced in which he described homosexuality as a "sin."

The Rev. Louie Giglio, pastor of Passion City Church in Atlanta, was announced as part of the inauguration program on Tuesday.

But the website ThinkProgress subsequently published a lengthy sermon of Giglio's from the '90s.

In the sermon, he purportedly said: "If you look at the counsel of the word of God, Old Testament, New Testament, you come quickly to the conclusion that homosexuality is not an alternate lifestyle... homosexuality is not just a sexual preference, homosexuality is not gay, but homosexuality is sin. It is sin in the eyes of God, and it is sin according to the word of God. You come to only one conclusion: homosexuality is less than God's best for his creation."

Giglio, under fire by gay-rights groups, announced Thursday he was withdrawing from the Jan. 21 inauguration.

"Due to a message of mine that has surfaced from 15-20 years ago, it is likely that my participation, and the prayer I would offer, will be dwarfed by those seeking to make their agenda the focal point of the inauguration," Giglio said in a statement to Fox News. "Clearly, speaking on this issue has not been in the range of my priorities in the past 15 years. Instead, my aim has been to call people to ultimate significance as we make much of Jesus Christ."

After Giglio withdrew, the Presidential Inaugural Committee claimed it was unaware of the pastor's past statements and had originally asked Giglio to deliver the benediction in part because of his work combating human trafficking.

"We were not aware of Pastor Giglio's past comments at the time of his selection and they don't reflect our desire to celebrate the strength and diversity of our country at this Inaugural," committee spokeswoman Addie Whisenant said in a statement. "As we now work to select someone to deliver the benediction, we will ensure their beliefs reflect this administration's vision of inclusion and acceptance for all Americans."

Obama earlier this year became the first sitting president to endorse same-sex marriage. His administration also successfully pushed for the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning gays from serving openly in the military.

In the years-old sermon, Giglio also purportedly criticized the "aggressive agenda" of some in the gay community.

"Underneath this issue is a very powerful and aggressive moment. That movement is not a benevolent movement," he said.


Film at 11.....


But it's ok for that gangam style dude to preform at the white house after calling for death to Americans.... .>??

CNN was able to translate the lyrics as saying," Kill those f--ing Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives and those who ordered them to torture," and going on to say, "Kill them all slowly and painfully," as well as "daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers."

Obama hates straight people.....

On both accounts...does it matter?

Really?

Oh, come on now. The idea that homosexuality is a sin is just something made up by some homophobes who learned how to cherry pick the bible.

Had to be a difficult decision, but it was the right one.

Sorry, but open homosexuality has been around a long time.


""Virtue" (virtus) was seen as an active quality through which a man (vir) defined himself. The conquest mentality and "cult of virility" shaped same-sex relations. Roman men were free to enjoy sex with other males without a perceived loss of masculinity or social status, as long as they took the dominant or penetrative role. Acceptable male partners were slaves, prostitutes, and entertainers, whose lifestyle placed them in the nebulous social realm of infamia, excluded from the normal protections accorded a citizen even if they were technically free. Although Roman men in general seem to have preferred youths between the ages of 12 and 20 as sexual partners, freeborn male minors were strictly off-limits, and professional prostitutes and entertainers might be considerably older".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome

If they had to look back 20 years to find dirt on the guy, I'm guessing they "really" didn't want him in the 1st place . . . 20 years.

no need to stone them yet.... let's give being banned from Chik-fila a little longer... they'll come around...

freaks....

But nobody's eating the gays...

Lookie here boys...we gots us one of them there muslims!

Next Commandment says you can't covet anything that is your neighbor's.

I assume that means his bod.

Yeah, because aside from Genesis, Leviticus, Deutoronomy, Judges, and Romans...where is homosexuality considered a sin?

Nowhere!

Frickin' holy-roller hypocrites!







(Ever seen lif of Brian and the dissertation of "What have the Romans done for us?")

Being in prison for a year would not have much of a downside for that particular demographic.

At the time your avowed savior was alleged by the authors of that biblical passage to have uttered those words, stoning was an approved Judaic implement of justice. Muslims, some not all, just seem to have kept their traditional methods of justice forward another half millenium or so. Not that I endorse them.

And your assumptions are worth..??

And that sir, is the single smartest thing I have read on all of Cbid.