President-elect Barack Obama has invited V. Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, to deliver the prayer at the opening inaugural event at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday.

In many ways, Pastor Rick Warren seems an unlikely choice to give the invocation at Barack Obama’s swearing-in.

Mega-church pastor Rick Warren will accomplish tomorrow what no one else has been able to do: He will bring John McCain and Barack Obama together on the same stage (albeit sequentially) to be grilled about their faith, leadership and compassion.