words of wisdom the mainstream media wouldn't let you hear...

[acroyear]

Pam's House Blend:: The invisible, inaudible Bishop Gene Robinson:

Bless us with tears - for a world in which over a billion people exist on less than a dollar a day, where young women from many lands are beaten and raped for wanting an education, and thousands die daily from malnutrition, malaria, and AIDS.

Bless us with anger - at discrimination, at home and abroad, against refugees and immigrants, women, people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

Bless us with discomfort - at the easy, simplistic "answers" we've preferred to hear from our politicians, instead of the truth, about ourselves and the world, which we need to face if we are going to rise to the challenges of the future.

Bless us with patience - and the knowledge that none of what ails us will be "fixed" anytime soon, and the understanding that our new president is a human being, not a messiah.

Bless us with humility - open to understanding that our own needs must always be balanced with those of the world.

Bless us with freedom from mere tolerance - replacing it with a genuine respect and warm embrace of our differences, and an understanding that in our diversity, we are stronger.

Bless us with compassion and generosity - remembering that every religion's God judges us by the way we care for the most vulnerable in the human community, whether across town or across the world.

These were from Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson's invocation at the Lincoln Memorial concert, conveniently cut out of the mainstream media's coverage of the event as well as HBO's broadcast.

Maybe some of you know why...

Comments

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

Um maybe it was cut because it was technically part of the Pre-Show?

Just like maybe the Gay Men's Chorus wasn't named on the TV because they didn't name ANY of the back-up choirs/choruses/people?

Why would a prayer to a specific deity be a required portion of the show? And you do NOT want to get me started on the Chief Justice having the "so help me God" as part of the oath which it is NOT. It may be tradition but it is not part of the formal oath.