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It seemed that Robinson was using the prayer as a political soapbox, in much the same way as the Pharisee at the temple saying “Thank heavens I’m not a filthy sinner, like that tax payer over there”. The lumping together of practising homosexuals with women and people of colour is a convenient way of implying discrimination, but even people of colour find such sentiments to be offensive, because the gay lifestyle clearly is a choice. He certainly wasn’t praying to the Jesus of the Bible, but a ‘big tent’ who lets unrepentant sinners into the kingdom of heaven and has no sense of justice.
I wonder how many of those who hold the USA up as the example of the principle of separation of Church and State took notice of the events of the day – many of which follow a “tradition”. Certainly the American commentators had no problem talking at length about the prayer service that begins the day, nor the inclusion of not one but two lengthy prayers for the President and the Lord’s Prayer during the Inauguration.
How different from the image of the nation whose example is used to support the removal of the Lord’s Prayer from Parliament. Of course, this does make the USA a Christian country, nor the Obama administration more Christian than any other, but it is a reminder that the hearts of kings and rulers are indeed in the hands of the Lord. Proverbs 21:1, Romans 13:2, 1 Peter 2:13-14.
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