About-face: Tutu gets St. Thomas invite

After having caved to a small number vocal critics of Bishop Tutu and refusing a department request to invite him to speak, St. Thomas' president, the Rev. Dennis Dease, change his mind. On Wednesday. Due only to the pressure brought by the blogosphere after the City Pages pointed it out.

The Reverend attempts a Mea Culpa:

"I have wrestled with what is the right thing to do in this situation, and I have concluded that I made the wrong decision earlier this year not to invite the archbishop," Dease wrote. "Although well-intentioned, I did not have all of the facts and points of view, but now I do."

But it is tough to explain this away when this is the same guy who approved an Ann Coulter visit to campus 2 years ago,

Let’s hope Bishop Tutu blows them off and speaks at Metropolitan State University instead.