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BREAKING: Anti-Gay Pastor Removed From Inaugural Program

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BREAKING: Anti-gay pastor removed from inaugural program http://thkpr.gs/WSBcW2

Louis Giglio, the anti-LGBT pastor who had been announced to perform the benediction at President Obama’s second inauguration, has been removed from the program, ABC News’s Jonathan Karl reported Thursday.

The move came after ThinkProgress reported Wednesday that in the 1990s, Giglio had given a lengthy sermon in which he advocated for dangerous “ex-gay” therapy for gay and lesbian people, referenced a biblical passage often interpreted to require gay people be executed, and impelled Christians to “firmly respond to the aggressive agenda” and prevent the “homosexual lifestyle” from becoming accepted in society

read more: https://twitter.com/jonkarl/statuses/289400247824830465

Update:

CNN’s Eric Marrapodi is reporting that Giglio voluntarily withdrew from the program.

(In D.C. parlance, that can still be interpreted as a WH takedown)

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148 replies	Author	Time	Post
BREAKING: Anti-Gay Pastor Removed From Inaugural Program (Original post)	bigtree	Jan 2013	OP
awesome	warrior1	Jan 2013	#1
Excellent.	Brickbat	Jan 2013	#2
YAY!!!!!! I was HOPING for that!	Rose Siding	Jan 2013	#3
I hear that! nm	Cha	Jan 2013	#111
Good...this was a horrendous mistake by the inauguration planners (and Obama if he signed off on it)	alcibiades_mystery	Jan 2013	#4
I am guessing they might not have known about the anti-gay statements	democrattotheend	Jan 2013	#8
Only an idiot or someone that doesn't think LGBT issues are important	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#26
You think they knew about mid a 90's video, being sold from random Christian website?	SpartanDem	Jan 2013	#29
They didn't care enough to use the Google	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#30
They know about Google don't they? Now where are all those who were defending this	sabrina 1	Jan 2013	#91
People here actually defended the choice?	kurtzapril4	Jan 2013	#92
Yes, they did. I responded to one who stated that they 'didn't care about his past statements	sabrina 1	Jan 2013	#109
I didn't know. Guess that makes me an idiot.	NBachers	Jan 2013	#44
Are you picking speakers for the inaguartion?	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#54
Never heard of the guy, and I spent 12 years working affirmative action programs	Hekate	Jan 2013	#47
This message was hidden by jury decision.	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#56
"Massa"? Fear of "execution next time"?	Hekate	Jan 2013	#63
You got that right.	Cha	Jan 2013	#112
You are more optimistic than I am.	dotymed	Jan 2013	#71
After Rick Warren, they should have made it their business to find out	Maven	Jan 2013	#77
Yeah, I'm really surprised they'd make this mistake twice	gollygee	Jan 2013	#87
Like this one 4 years ago???	Ms. Toad	Jan 2013	#137
Good.	MineralMan	Jan 2013	#5
Agree!!! I get tired of the interjection of religion into sooo many things. n/t	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#17
Yay!	Scuba	Jan 2013	#6
Good work! K&R!	QC	Jan 2013	#7
This should've happened when well-known homophobe Rick Warren was chosen	Lex	Jan 2013	#9
I don't know why they keep going for these evangelical types. Just get some	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#10
The Dean of the Washington National Cathedral would be	MineralMan	Jan 2013	#12
Sounds good to me. Nutty firebrands need not apply.	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#13
Bingo...	ReRe	Jan 2013	#115
+1, n/t	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#19
Or how about a Pagan?	Myrina	Jan 2013	#23
LOL. I don't think the country is ready for Starhawk up there. Native American might go over better.	Hekate	Jan 2013	#51
They already have non-demoninational in Myrlie Evers-Williams...	Moonwalk	Jan 2013	#93
how about an american indian	hopemountain	Jan 2013	#132
Why does it have to be a "pastor"? How about a nun?	MgtPA	Jan 2013	#25
That's an Awesome Idea!	Cha	Jan 2013	#114
I dunno...I'd like to see an old-fashioned stoning.	Kurovski	Jan 2013	#139
Ha. Or a not-so-stodgy lesbian pastor...	WorseBeforeBetter	Jan 2013	#31
Or John Spong or Jim Wallis	obamanut2012	Jan 2013	#34
Or Bishop Eugene Robinson.	WorseBeforeBetter	Jan 2013	#41
Yes, the AGAIN part is what gets me	obamanut2012	Jan 2013	#42
Agree entirely. I like Obama a lot as a president, but I will never forgive him for Rick Warren	Moonwalk	Jan 2013	#101
Here's a recent thread in support of Jim Wallis, an activist for Social Justice, who knows The Pres	We People	Jan 2013	#113
I said during the DNC Con he should have been chosen	obamanut2012	Jan 2013	#116
LOL	wryter2000	Jan 2013	#105
I can't help but see Episcopalians as basically Catholics without the flair for	TwilightGardener	Jan 2013	#106
The way i see it	wryter2000	Jan 2013	#107
Isn't it	secondvariety	Jan 2013	#127
Yes. We also do Compline	wryter2000	Jan 2013	#143
Political pressure WORKS.	Odin2005	Jan 2013	#11
Good news.	TDale313	Jan 2013	#14
K&R !!! K&R !!! K&R !!! K&R !!! K&R !!! n/t	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#15
That is good news -	LibertyLover	Jan 2013	#16
Yep, some neutral party that's not out to sharpen their sword. n/t	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#21
Yeah,	Cha	Jan 2013	#117
Excellent news...	Spazito	Jan 2013	#18
Forward!!	Politicub	Jan 2013	#20
Yep!!!	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#22
Exactly...	DURHAM D	Jan 2013	#27
Great work to Call the White House on their lack of concern for the LGBT community	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#24
On the plus side, when people complained they listened	democrattotheend	Jan 2013	#28
And thanks to the ProfessionalLeftistMedia...	WorseBeforeBetter	Jan 2013	#37
Oh please, a mistake was made and corrected. Frankly, your comment about	KittyWampus	Jan 2013	#32
It was not a mistake, it was an overbooking. If Hagel was not sucking up all the energy needed	Bluenorthwest	Jan 2013	#58
Your lack of concern for my equality is noted	dbackjon	Jan 2013	#59
Your inability to acknowledge how much this Administration has done to secure	KittyWampus	Jan 2013	#94
We GLBT citizens are the ones who have done the work	MNBrewer	Jan 2013	#140
this	obamanut2012	Jan 2013	#36
Let's be done with	JEB	Jan 2013	#33
My jaw has dropped wide open! (And not for what you think!) change! WooHoo!	grahamhgreen	Jan 2013	#35
People that are bigots and spew hate need to be shunned by all of society.	Ikonoklast	Jan 2013	#38
Great news! N/R	FreeState	Jan 2013	#39
So...he jumped before he was pushed? Very classy of WH to offer him the opportunity to	MADem	Jan 2013	#40
I think they learned from the first go-round, which is good.	Hekate	Jan 2013	#49
Heck, let a NASCAR driver do the benediction--that'll appeal to the GOP and keep them out of	MADem	Jan 2013	#50
I'd say how about a nice Unitarian.	KittyWampus	Jan 2013	#53
UU always works for my family. Talk about a rational, intelligent, yet warm community...	Hekate	Jan 2013	#61
Have always like the UUs since	Brainstormy	Jan 2013	#73
That's them all right!	Hekate	Jan 2013	#75
OMG!	lunatica	Jan 2013	#43
Good.	Sheldon Cooper	Jan 2013	#45
good.	DCBob	Jan 2013	#46
Excellent.	Starry Messenger	Jan 2013	#48
Good. I'm glad that they responded quickly to this mistake.	yardwork	Jan 2013	#52
Just a suggestion: How about we all say "Thanks for listening, it's nice to be heard"?	Hekate	Jan 2013	#55
Do you really think	kurtzapril4	Jan 2013	#95
Do you really think the admin cares when we scream at them?	Hekate	Jan 2013	#98
They don't care either way. n/t	kurtzapril4	Jan 2013	#144
Being polite to others is about oneself	jberryhill	Jan 2013	#104
I have a dream	SCVDem	Jan 2013	#57
i thought it was going to be	barbtries	Jan 2013	#60
She's doing the opening prayer.	SpartanDem	Jan 2013	#118
ok, thanks	barbtries	Jan 2013	#120
DU still thinks that the president hates LGBT people.	Liberal_Stalwart71	Jan 2013	#62
Well, some DUers have issues	Hekate	Jan 2013	#64
WOW, really? That should be alerted. Personal attacks are uncalled for.	Liberal_Stalwart71	Jan 2013	#67
No worries	Hekate	Jan 2013	#69
Why did you link to your own post?	Capt. Obvious	Jan 2013	#68
Most likely a mistake on my part...	Liberal_Stalwart71	Jan 2013	#89
Actually, I think you should reread Occulus' response to you in that thread	Maven	Jan 2013	#83
He must be waiting for Occulus to apologize to him first	Capt. Obvious	Jan 2013	#86
I read it. I addressed it. I've moved on.	Liberal_Stalwart71	Jan 2013	#88
Oh OK. I usually address things by doing nothing at all, too.	Maven	Jan 2013	#90
Nothing to do. It is of no consequence to me. You can read what I posted.	Liberal_Stalwart71	Jan 2013	#97
Well, one can admire your single-mindedness I suppose.	Maven	Jan 2013	#100
This message was self-deleted by its author	Maven	Jan 2013	#99
Oh good! I thought it was pretty strange that he was chosen, considering	Chorophyll	Jan 2013	#65
Great.	hay rick	Jan 2013	#66
YAY!!!!	BlancheSplanchnik	Jan 2013	#70
It'd be even more awesome if they had no one praying. n/t	Gore1FL	Jan 2013	#72
Good.	Warren DeMontague	Jan 2013	#74
Be sure to email the White House and thank them n/t	eridani	Jan 2013	#76
And for those DUers who defended this at the start, or claimed Giglio had probably changed his views	Maven	Jan 2013	#78
In the first place, why, do they get these edgy fringe people to fill prominent religious spots?	northoftheborder	Jan 2013	#79
So you want to have clergy do a benediction?	Jeff In Milwaukee	Jan 2013	#80
+1,000! Well Said!	KoKo	Jan 2013	#134
GOOD! He never should have been picked in the first place!	MotherPetrie	Jan 2013	#81
Whlle I appreciate that Obama is the most pro-LGBT president in history	bluestateguy	Jan 2013	#82
This is good news. There's enough hate and misunderstanding	AndyA	Jan 2013	#84
Don't stop there, remove the benediction as well!	Towlie	Jan 2013	#85
Medgar Evers' widow should be dumped? Seriously?	Hekate	Jan 2013	#125
No more Louie Giggolo? And I was so looking forward to hearing his little speech.	Erose999	Jan 2013	#96
Dumped the chump!	JohnnyLib2	Jan 2013	#102
Thank heaven	wryter2000	Jan 2013	#103
Good, but why the need for a religious person at all? Religion didn't get him reelected.	cleanhippie	Jan 2013	#108
It's called "PR."	WinkyDink	Jan 2013	#128
I call it pandering.	cleanhippie	Jan 2013	#131
Wow, bigtree.. thanks for the news. That	Cha	Jan 2013	#110
"What a difference a day makes....	ReRe	Jan 2013	#119
Update: Statement from Addie Whisenant of the Presidential Inaugural Committee..	Cha	Jan 2013	#121
Thank god, I can't believe Obama would pick a bigoted douche like that.	Initech	Jan 2013	#122
Why would the WH even book such a "pastor"?	Dont call me Shirley	Jan 2013	#123
Give this a break you hypocritical	KY_Democrat	Jan 2013	#124
Great news.	Riley18	Jan 2013	#126
Happy this has been corrected. Who will perform the benediction now? I hope it's different & cool!	Sunlei	Jan 2013	#129
Benediction??	AlwaysQuestion	Jan 2013	#130
Good riddance to this rotten hate monger	indepat	Jan 2013	#133
I would ask someone from the Wisconsin Sikh temple that was attacked in August. n/t	Bolo Boffin	Jan 2013	#135
Be glad they are not having the guy do this	obama2terms	Jan 2013	#136
Last Inaugural, Obama did not give a crap. Here is his first term choice for Public Prayer Merchant	Bluenorthwest	Jan 2013	#141
And I'm thrilled that your	cliffordu	Jan 2013	#145
I seriously don't understand the need of someone on the Obama team to have	bluestate10	Jan 2013	#138
I live in Atlanta and have never heard of this guy.....	Swede Atlanta	Jan 2013	#142
I'm glad he decided to step aside	davidpdx	Jan 2013	#146
More Truthful Headline:	blkmusclmachine	Jan 2013	#147
Woohoo, fantastic news	davesliberal1977_gg	Jan 2013	#148

Response to bigtree (Original post)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 11:11 AM

warrior1 (9,225 posts)

1. awesome

They should have an humanist speak. The POTUS mother was one.

BREAKING: Anti-Gay Pastor Removed From Inaugural Program

1. awesome

2. Excellent.

3. YAY!!!!!! I was HOPING for that!

111. I hear that! nm

4. Good...this was a horrendous mistake by the inauguration planners (and Obama if he signed off on it)

8. I am guessing they might not have known about the anti-gay statements

26. Only an idiot or someone that doesn't think LGBT issues are important

29. You think they knew about mid a 90's video, being sold from random Christian website?

30. They didn't care enough to use the Google

91. They know about Google don't they? Now where are all those who were defending this

92. People here actually defended the choice?

109. Yes, they did. I responded to one who stated that they 'didn't care about his past statements

44. I didn't know. Guess that makes me an idiot.

54. Are you picking speakers for the inaguartion?

47. Never heard of the guy, and I spent 12 years working affirmative action programs

63. "Massa"? Fear of "execution next time"?

112. You got that right.

71. You are more optimistic than I am.

77. After Rick Warren, they should have made it their business to find out

87. Yeah, I'm really surprised they'd make this mistake twice

137. Like this one 4 years ago???

5. Good.

17. Agree!!! I get tired of the interjection of religion into sooo many things. n/t

6. Yay!

7. Good work! K&R!

9. This should've happened when well-known homophobe Rick Warren was chosen

10. I don't know why they keep going for these evangelical types. Just get some

12. The Dean of the Washington National Cathedral would be

13. Sounds good to me. Nutty firebrands need not apply.

115. Bingo...

19. +1, n/t

23. Or how about a Pagan?

51. LOL. I don't think the country is ready for Starhawk up there. Native American might go over better.

93. They already have non-demoninational in Myrlie Evers-Williams...

132. how about an american indian

25. Why does it have to be a "pastor"? How about a nun?

114. That's an Awesome Idea!

139. I dunno...I'd like to see an old-fashioned stoning.

31. Ha. Or a not-so-stodgy lesbian pastor...

34. Or John Spong or Jim Wallis

41. Or Bishop Eugene Robinson.

42. Yes, the AGAIN part is what gets me

101. Agree entirely. I like Obama a lot as a president, but I will never forgive him for Rick Warren

113. Here's a recent thread in support of Jim Wallis, an activist for Social Justice, who knows The Pres

116. I said during the DNC Con he should have been chosen

105. LOL

106. I can't help but see Episcopalians as basically Catholics without the flair for

107. The way i see it

127. Isn't it

143. Yes. We also do Compline

11. Political pressure WORKS.

14. Good news.

15. K&R !!! K&R !!! K&R !!! K&R !!! K&R !!! n/t

16. That is good news -

21. Yep, some neutral party that's not out to sharpen their sword. n/t

117. Yeah,

18. Excellent news...

20. Forward!!

22. Yep!!!

27. Exactly...

24. Great work to Call the White House on their lack of concern for the LGBT community

28. On the plus side, when people complained they listened

37. And thanks to the ProfessionalLeftistMedia...

32. Oh please, a mistake was made and corrected. Frankly, your comment about

58. It was not a mistake, it was an overbooking. If Hagel was not sucking up all the energy needed

59. Your lack of concern for my equality is noted

94. Your inability to acknowledge how much this Administration has done to secure

140. We GLBT citizens are the ones who have done the work

36. this

33. Let's be done with

35. My jaw has dropped wide open! (And not for what you think!) change! WooHoo!

38. People that are bigots and spew hate need to be shunned by all of society.

39. Great news! N/R

40. So...he jumped before he was pushed? Very classy of WH to offer him the opportunity to

49. I think they learned from the first go-round, which is good.

50. Heck, let a NASCAR driver do the benediction--that'll appeal to the GOP and keep them out of

53. I'd say how about a nice Unitarian.

61. UU always works for my family. Talk about a rational, intelligent, yet warm community...

73. Have always like the UUs since