Dept. of Making Amends

I missed this when it happened a few days ago. Obama has asked V. Eugene Robinson to deliver the invocation at Sunday's "kickoff" inaugural event. Robinson is an openly gay Episcopal bishop in New Hampshire. The Obama people claim that this was in the works from before the Rick Warren flap -- so it wasn't a reaction to it -- but, it is still a welcome move. For me it goes a way to getting over the Warren pick and for regaining some (but not all) of my faith in Obama.

Rick Warren yesterday, in a statement that shows why he's not at the Dobson end of the evangelical spectrum, praised the selection of Robinson and Obama's desire to "be the president of every citizen."

(By the way, how weird is it to call the first inaugural event the "kickoff" event? U.S. culture does love its sports)