Joel Osteen blesses Houston’s new (gay) mayor Annise Parker
CAPTIONHouston Mayor Annise Parker, right,, holds hands with her partner Kathy Hubbard, left, while bowing their heads during the prayer led by Houston evangelical megachurch pastor Joel Osteen at her a public inauguration ceremony Monday.
By David J. Phillip, AP
Annise Parker, the newly-elected happens-to-be-lesbian mayor of Houston was sworn in Monday and the opening prayer was given by … Rev. Joel Osteen.
Is your head spinning? Osteen heads the nation’s most mega of evangelical non-denominational megachurches, Lakewood Church in Houston where about 45,000 people cycle through a revamped sports stadium for services every weekend.
Osteen has been all over telling folks (Larry King, Whoopi Goldberg) for years that homosexuality is not “God’s best.” I presume he means “God’s best choice” because otherwise I’m lost in the dropped or implied rest of the sentence. But “God’s best” is phrase Osteen never finishes so I’m just guessing.
Houston Mayor Annise Parker addresses GLBT supporters at a reception call “Celebrating Victory” on January 3, 2010.
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