I recently watched a fascinating documentary on Netflix entitled Lord, Save Us From Your Followers. In it, Christian filmmaker Dan Merchant strives to understand the divide between Christians and everyone else and why religious faith has become so divisive. If it has an agenda, it's about trying to actually live...

As a comedian, I can only watch Rick Perry and think, "I owe George W. Bush an apology."

Of all the witless gaffes Rick Perry has made of late in his bid for the Republican nomination, the funniest may be his inadvertent choice of wardrobe. In his latest ad,...

When asked about gay rights in an interview with New Hampshire's Concord Monitor, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann refused to answer. "I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters," she said. "I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues."

Waterlogged in said seriousness up to...

One of the most entertaining and unlikely political feuds since Larry Flynt vs. Jerry Falwell is reaching a fever pitch, and it involves a Republican presidential candidate and a gay sex columnist.

In 2003, one of the most conservative ideologues in the history of the republic, Sen. Rick Santorum...

One of the hardest things about being gay in today's world is that most everything in your life is just fine until some stranger you don't know insists that it is not.

I was feeling just dandy until a news site I came across a column by some stranger...

Another teenager killed himself because of bullying and anti-gay harassment. This one was in Minnesota, and his name was Justin Aaberg. The local news report is here. School officials, wary of conservative protests, did nothing.

This comes on the heels of the suicide of another teenager in...

The Atlantic reported, "Ken Mehlman, President Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay."

To which family and associates, as well as the part of the country with half a brain, screamed, "Duh."

"Mehlman...

Comedian Kathy Griffin, on her Bravo show "My Life On The D-List," spoofed Sarah Palin's schooling in world affairs with index cards by having CNN's John King and Dana Bash school her on Washington politicos. A picture of Senator Scott Brown yielded the comment, "He's a senator from Massachusetts, and...

When I was a kid, one thing my mother told me that actually turned out to be true was, "If you say something bad about someone, they'll say something bad about you."

Today's moms would do well to say to their children, "If you actively work against gay people...

Since Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill that will allow police to randomly question anyone they choose about their immigration status, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor would probably be better off not walking alone on a street in Phoenix, lest she get thrown against a police car.

Gloria...

"The first question for me is: Are same-sex unions 'marriages'? I'm against discrimination, I'm against hatred, I'm in favor of marriage equality, but I don't think same-sex marriage is marriage. Therefore I think it is wrong for the government to insist, through the use of law, that we all believe...

A hot young singer's television performance causes a scandal with its in-your-face sexuality never before seen on prime time TV. Television critics and viewers across the country slam the performance for its "appalling lack of musicality," for its "vulgarity" and "animalism." The Catholic Church takes up the criticism in its...

You can't get any more Christian than my parents. They have been churchgoers for their entire lives, have sung in the choir for over 50 years, and use their faith to heal their lives and bond with their community. Unlike the "Religious Right" so popular on FOX News and various...

No matter how many Hitler mustaches or jungle bunny feathers right wing protesters paint on pictures of President Obama, conservative pundits are working overtime to assure their audience that the behavior of liberals towards Bush, and any conservative, was much, much worse. It's an exercise in behavior justification, an attempt...

I didn't go to the conservative March on Washington this weekend, but I have an idea of the hyperbolic, hysterical atmosphere, since I attended a huge anti-abortion march in Washington in the mid-90s. I will never forget the feeling of being surrounded by people who would beat the crap out...

Sarah Palin isn't stupid. She just thinks we are stupid.

She thinks we will sit there and quietly nod while she yammers like a pageant runner-up answering the final question, and speaks against divisive partisan politics after months of indulging in divisive partisan politics.

She thinks we will believe...

Conservatives are always accusing liberals of having no sense of humor and playing the victim. Now David Letterman has been forced to grovel, beg for forgiveness and apologize by a conservative with no sense of humor playing the victim.

Poor Sarah Palin. Not only did she lose the election,...

The other day I blogged (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-david/adam-lambert-loses-homoph_b_206154.html) about Adam Lambert's "American Idol" loss being due to homophobia. It got a the biggest response of any HuffPost piece I've written, both positive, negative and outright nasty. In my post, I said, "Go ahead, give me another reason" why Lambert lost. And many...

The best singer didn't win a freaking singing contest.

When Kris Allen defeated Adam Lambert as the Season 8 "American Idol," it was, as predicted, a seismic upset. The Chicago Sun-Times said, "David slayed Goliath." Endless bloggers posted reactions like "The biggest robbery since Bush stole the election" and...

Back on March 17 I blogged about Adam Lambert's huge talent after seeing only two of his early American Idol performances. I believe I was one of the first to write about him and was afraid I would come across as too over-the-top in my praise and ultimately be...