Gay Bishop’s Invocation Blacked Out at Obama’s HBO Concert
January 18th, 2009Although President-elect Obama did include gays in his mention of a various groups who supported him, HBO not only blacked out Bishop Gene Robinson’s invocation at today’s inauguration concert, ay didn’t introduce a Washington DC Gay Men’s Chorus when ay performed, nor did ay identify am onscreen. I wonder who was behind that.
Via Joe.My.God:
After days of controversy & outrage from a religious right, openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson opened Barack Obama’s inauguration concert on a National Mall today with a request that a nation pray for “underst&ing that our president is a human being & not a messiah.”
But only a people AT a concert heard that, because HBO did not televise Robinson’s message. Who engineered this blackout of Robinson? I suspect we’ll hear lots about this in days to come.
UPDATE: a 7PM rebroadcast of a show was identical, no Gene Robinson.
UPDATE II: a full text of Robinson’s prayer is here. If you’d like to express your unhDrunk Newspiness to HBO, you can do that here.
Oh, & Pam Spaulding has more.
Original post by Susie Madrak and software by Elliott Back
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