rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

Well, I gues the day’s news has been won by Steve Jobs and Anti-DRM. Thank the Lord. Also, in another thank god moment. Ted Haggard has been cured from gay-ness. He is now “Completely Heterosexual.” Yes, that’s right he was cured. Praise the Lord!

I think this respected news source sums it up well:

Fresh from de-Gayhab, the Rev. Ted Haggard says he’s not gay anymore.

Who is Ted Haggard? Remember the disgraced preacher who liked to snort meth off the buttocks of a gay hooker? That Ted Haggard.

Haggard, 50, resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and was fired from the church he built from nothing into a 14,000-member congregation after a former male prostitute in Denver alleged a three-year cash-for-sex relationship.

Now the Rev. Ted Haggard has emerged from three weeks of intensive counseling convinced he is “completely heterosexual” and told an oversight board that his sexual contact with men was limited to his accuser, the gay hooker.

It is notable how Ted Haggard and his crew have dealt with this issue in Bush-Rove-like fashion. Gavin Newsome, San Francisco’s pro-affair alcohol using mayor, should learn some tactics from Haggard’s team on ground control: Faith first, truth second.

(NOTE: Massive Sarcasm in this post. Disclosure: I’m the son of a preacher.)

Yes, its a very big deal to note Steve Jobs note to the community at large about the problems of DRM. The letter is obviously carefully crafted and has excellent points about the issue including some light-promises. As I expected, Prof. Lessig, Mike Linksvayer, Sneakmove, other hackers, and Mr. Boing Boing Doctorow all made comments on Steve Jobs great statement.

Doctorow’s post has notable constructive criticism:

This is a big day — a huge day. If Steve Jobs comes through with his promise to offer DRM-free music from artists who will allow it, we’re at the beginning of the end of the DRM wars. I look forward to the day when the iTunes Music Store catalog shows a little warning icon next to those few holdout tracks sold with DRM, a skull-and-crossbones to tell you that you’re about to buy some poisonous bits.

Especially if Steve follows this up by offering iTunes videos — especially the Pixar movies, which he directly controls as the single largest shareholder in Disney — without DRM! Link

It is now time to stick Apple to this and reminds me of the importance of how influential luminary figures like Jobs can be when they speak up from their closed offices on issues such as this (and I would add when its beneficial to their interests). I don’t mean this is in a naive way either, as this is America baby. Oh know…