No, Barack Obama has not withdrawn his invitation to Rick Warren. Rick Warren is still doing the invocation at Barack Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration, shortly before Obama delivers his much-anticipated inaugural address. But Gene Robinson, the first openly gay diocesan bishop in the Anglican Communion, in an obvious olive branch to the gay community, will share his invocation prayer Sunday afternoon on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during an inaugural kick-off event.

Showing that he is “everybody’s President” President-elect Barack Obama has chosen evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the presidential inauguration next month.