I'm trying to think of Warren this way..

No, I'm not happy he'll be first up or even be up on the podium on Jan 20. He's a bigot and a homophobe and I don't want him speaking for the U.S. on that day.

Here's what I've worked through though. Warren's the one who will have to give over, not Obama.

How so? you ask. Good question. Humor me for a minute.

Warren is there to give a two-minute invocation for a specific occasion, an Inauguration of a new U.S. President. There won't be any time for him to go into any of his diatribes about why gays are bad or full human rights for gays are immoral and wrong. Airing his homophobia is simply an inappropriate topic in that context.

OTOH, it is Warren who will be among a group of people, including the PE, on that day who at least pay lip service to gay rights and in some cases actually work for them, or potentially are gay if the Sec of Navy pick will be true. I hope so.

And so will a vast swath of the audience on the National Mall be supportive of gay rights.

Warren will be the interloper, not my friends DUers and otherwise who happen to be gay, not anyone who is supportive of gay rights. He'll have to meet them, look them in the eye and be business like and professional. He'll have to be a grown-up about it.

The Inauguration simply isn't about Rick Warren. It's about all of us.

Well, considering I'm female and gay, I'll have to say: no, it isn't.