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Inaugural prayers aim for a more diverse America
AP – The Rev. Rick Warren, of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., gives the invocation as President-elect …
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By RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer
The clergy were Protestant, and so was the new head of state. But the inauguration Tuesday of President Barack Obama aimed for a much broader audience: an increasingly diverse America, where people want their beliefs acknowledged in the nation’s most important ceremony. In his address, Obama referred to God and Scripture, saying, “the time has come to set aside childish things,” from 1 Corinthians.
But he also reached out to American secularists, calling the United States, “a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and nonbelievers.” The Center for Inquiry and the Council for Secular Humanism, based in Amherst, N.Y., called recognition in the inaugural address “truly historic and remarkable.”
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Jan 22 2009
