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Latest NewsPastor quits Obama inauguration14 January 2013A popular US evangelical pastor has pulled out of giving the benediction at the inauguration of President Barack Obama after a liberal website highlighted his conservative views on homosexuality. Louie Giglio, founder and pastor of the 2,000-strong Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia, said in a statement to the White House that he did not wish to "fight on an issue not of our choosing, thus I respectfully withdraw my acceptance of the President's invitation." Last Wednesday the website ThinkProgress reported that Giglio had given a sermon in the 1990s advocating "recovery" for gays in which he also called the gay rights movement "not benevolent" in advocating that "the homosexual lifestyle becomes accepted as a norm". The President's Inaugural Committee stressed the decision was Revd Giglio's and said he had been selected for "his leadership in combating human trafficking around the world". For other recent bulletins, select from the list here: |
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