\’God\’ Mostly Missing in Obama\’s Inaugural Invocation–Delivered by Laywoman

(CNSNews.com) – Instead of a prayer delivered by clergy, the Presidential Inaugural Committee invited a layperson to give the invocation on Monday for the second presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.

Mrs. Myrlie Evers-Williams, 79, a civil rights activist and widow of the slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, was tapped by the committee after Christian pastor Louie Giglio backed out because of a flap over a sermon in which he called homosexuality a sin.