GLBT Nurses: Inauguration prayer

so alive LPN · Jan 18, 2009 05:37 PM

"Openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson gave the invocation prayer at the kick-off for the inauguration. It is a historic moment for the LGBT community, one that many of us tuned in to see."

http://queersunited.blogspot.com/200...ow-on-hbo.html

HBO decided it wasn't going to show this. I would like to know why.

RedCell · Jan 18, 2009, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by so alive LPN

"Openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson gave the invocation prayer at the kick-off for the inauguration. It is a historic moment for the LGBT community, one that many of us tuned in to see."

http://queersunited.blogspot.com/200...ow-on-hbo.html

HBO decided it wasn't going to show this. I would like to know why.

Probably because the vast majority of Americans really could care less about the sexual orientation of other individuals and therefore, the subject is not deemed news worthy. Besides, bishops, priests, reverends etc...are not as interesting as watching the cardinals make it to their first superbowl!

Dinsey · Jan 18, 2009, 06:08 PM

If so many Americans "could care less" then why is there so much action against gay marriage? People are ACTIVELY opposing it - by canvassing, legislating and voting.

After Nov. 4, we can't think that Americans, in general don't care.

They are actively taking away my civil liberties, and the liberties of millions of others.

RochesterRN-BSN · Jan 18, 2009, 06:38 PM

The more people we have in important positions in this country that either are openly gay or lesbian or a strong ally for the LGBT community the more positive change we in this community. Maybe REDCELL doesn't find this important or newsworthy because he or she doesn't have to fight to be able to have all the same rights that a straight person has. Those rights are taken for granted. You fall in love and if you so choose you marry that person you love. For us in the LGBT community that right is not a given. So what we can go to Canada or to a couple of limited states to marry. It is not acknowledged nationally. Adoptions, the laws limit this community.......over 1000 civil rights are denied to this community. So though I may not be a religious person--so didn't watch this-- I am an glad to see more people in the position to help in the mission towards equality for me and the rest of the LGBT community!!!

ToxicShock · Jan 18, 2009, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by RedCell

Besides, bishops, priests, reverends etc...are not as interesting as watching the cardinals make it to their first superbowl!

Touché.

so alive LPN · Jan 18, 2009, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by psychRNinNY

The more people we have in important positions in this country that either are openly gay or lesbian or a strong ally for the LGBT community the more positive change we in this community. Maybe REDCELL doesn't find this important or newsworthy because he or she doesn't have to fight to be able to have all the same rights that a straight person has. Those rights are taken for granted. You fall in love and if you so choose you marry that person you love. For us in the LGBT community that right is not a given. So what we can go to Canada or to a couple of limited states to marry. It is not acknowledged nationally. Adoptions, the laws limit this community.......over 1000 civil rights are denied to this community. So though I may not be a religious person--so didn't watch this-- I am an glad to see more people in the position to help in the mission towards equality for me and the rest of the LGBT community!!!

Thank you. I posted this because I wanted answers. Being a member of the GLBT community, like you, I'm forced to deal with this type of thing everyday. I just thought it was interesting, and wanted to know others opinions.

chigap · Jan 18, 2009, 08:34 PM

I am gay and I live in New Zealand because my partner is Thai and I can not get him to the US. Reading the OP, I just wanted to cry. I miss my home and I so want to be there right now. I have quit nursing as it is so terrible here and have gone back to school. Somedays I wonder if love is worth all this and then my partner laughs or does something silly and I remember why I am here and what life used to be like. Yeah, love is worth exile. I spent my whole life in the US being a second class citizen and may spend the rest of it here as no citizen at all...

*leslie :-D* · Jan 18, 2009, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by chigap

I am gay and I live in New Zealand because my partner is Thai and I can not get him to the US. Reading the OP, I just wanted to cry. I miss my home and I so want to be there right now. I have quit nursing as it is so terrible here and have gone back to school. Somedays I wonder if love is worth all this and then my partner laughs or does something silly and I remember why I am here and what life used to be like. Yeah, love is worth exile. I spent my whole life in the US being a second class citizen and may spend the rest of it here as no citizen at all...

chigap, your post reminded me of a homemade gift our niece gave us one year:

a valentine-shaped piece of slate with the words, "home is where you hang your heart".
i am glad that you are "first class" in the eyes of your partner.
best of everything to you both.

leslie

Shenanigans · Jan 18, 2009, 09:09 PM

As I'm not an American, can someone explain to me while despite all this "Seperation of church and state" business, there are still important public events and moments that you "open with a prayer".

Its really odd to me.

mercyteapot · Jan 18, 2009, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by Shenanigans

As I'm not an American, can someone explain to me while despite all this "Seperation of church and state" business, there are still important public events and moments that you "open with a prayer".

Its really odd to me.

For many (most, actually) of the occasions that we open with a prayer, I really can't explain it. It is, IMHO, a contradiction. In the case of the inaugration, however, I do feel that it was up to President-Elect Obama to choose to have a prayer or not have a prayer and to choose who would deliver it. Although it is, as you say, a public event, it still marks a significant passage for our new president and I have no problem with his choice to include a prayer as he embarks on the awesome responsibility with which we have entrusted him. As for the question posed by the OP, as to why HBO has chosen not to show the prayer, I'd direct that question to them and I'd encourage others to do the same. They should give you an explanation.

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