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| nbcchicago.com |
(AP) The evangelical pastor chosen to give the benediction at President
Barack Obama’s inauguration withdrew from the ceremony Thursday after
remarks he made two decades ago condemning the gay rights movement
surfaced.
The Rev. Louie Giglio of Passion City Church in Atlanta said in a
statement he withdrew because it was likely that the “prayer I would
offer will be dwarfed by those seeking to make their agenda the focal
point of the inauguration.”
Addie Whisenant, a spokeswoman for the Presidential Inaugural
Committee, said the committee had chosen Giglio because of his work to
end human trafficking.
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