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I mentioned in my previous post that there were three ways to see the We Are One Inaugural Concert yesterday. Be there, watch it on HBO, or watch it streaming online from HBO. Only one of those ways gave you the complete program.

The opening prayer of openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson was not shown on any of the broadcasts. Robinson’s presence came as a result of pressure and protests against homophobic Rev. Rick Warren, who will pray at the official inauguration tomorrow.

Contacted Sunday night by AfterElton.com concerning the exclusion of Robinson’s prayer, HBO said via email, “The producer of the concert has said that the Presidential Inaugural Committee made the decision to keep the invocation as part of the pre-show.” Uncertain as to whether or not that meant that HBO was contractually prevented from airing the pre-show, we followed up, but none of the spokespeople available Sunday night could answer that question with absolute certainty. However, it does seem that the network’s position is that they had nothing to do with the decision.

Here’s the opening as not seen on tv.

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