It’s the most common argument used to argue in favor of gay marriage:  refuting the Christian argument that gay marriage would damage the sanctity of the institution of marriage by citing the divorce rate among Christians.
I’ve made mention of the same argument, and pointed out that I think it’s unfortunate that Christians seem so willing to jump on a soapbox with regard to the subject of gay marriage, but not nearly as much effort on divorce itself.  That is a double standard.
But the problem with this argument comes down to …

This week, we saw a new hero emerge onto the American scene, a hero whose very appearance trumped two long-held tenets in our culture: first, that the customer is always right; and second, that airlines never get it right.
Former flight attendant Steven Slater, whose now famous (or infamous) exit from a JetBlue airplane after using the intercom to tell a passenger who had possibly assaulted him and probably cursed at him what she could go and do with herself, is now the stuff of t-shirts, buttons and Facebook pages.
And …

A $150,000 campaign donation from the Target Corporation that went to a Minnesota gubernatorial candidate led one shopper to make a video protest.
The woman, a mother and grandmother who says she has a gay relative, is upset because the candidate in question has, she says, connections to “anti-gay” groups.
The write-up for the ridiculous video that’s posted at YouTube claims that she made “repeated attempts to get to Target executives.” When those apparently failed (i.e., they didn’t stop payment on the check), she brought along a camera-wielding associate and went …

It’s Day 100 of the Gulf oil disaster, and President Obama hasn’t gotten glowing marks on his handling of the situation, based on one of the latest Patrick’s Place Polls.
Forty percent of those responding gave him a C grade. One vote prevented a tie for the top grade.  Had it not been for that single vote, just as many people would have given him

This morning on The Early Show, a sponsor billboard ran that got my attention.  It was for Nicorette, a popular gum designed to help smokers kick the habit.
Fortunately, I’ve never had to turn to such a product because I was fortunate to be born with a mild allergy to cigarette smoke, which meant I never had any desire to start smoking to begin with.
But what made me stop what I was doing was the slogan — which apparently really is their slogan:

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck may go blind within a year.
Or he may not.
That’s the explanation he received from his doctor after being diagnosed with macular dystrophy.
Beck has revealed his situation on radio and television, joking that he went to the best doctor he could find while he could still go to the best doctor he could find, an obvious, if tired, slam at healthcare reform.
Somehow, if that’s the best the doctor could do in explaining the situation, I don’t know why he wouldn’t be calling for healthcare reform on that …

I’m really not supposed to like tigers. After all, I graduated from the University of South Carolina, home of the Fighting Gamecocks, whose chief rival happens to be the Clemson University Tigers.
But if you ask me what animal I would consider the most beautiful on earth, I’d have to go with a tiger. And we’re about a dozen years away from being at a point of no return to save them from extinction, according to scientists.
That’s a sobering thought when you look at one of these incredible cats.

For more than three decades, Red Skelton was a household name, a top star on radio and television.
He started on NBC television, but in 1953, he moved over to CBS. The incredible video included in this post aired from Television City in Hollywood in January of 1969. I particularly recognize that stage from Studio 33, where Carol Burnett did her show each week and where The Price is Right has taped from day one in 1972.
When I visited that stage back in 1997 for a work assignment, …

This year’s annual “Modern Wedding Contest” on NBC’s Today show will allow gays and lesbians the chance to win a free dream wedding, according to a release issued from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).
In the past, gays and lesbians were excluded from participating since the wedding had to take place live in the state of New York, where Today is headquartered. The state of New York does not issue marriage licenses to same sex couples.
However, what the state does do is to accept and honor same-sex …

Take one look at the tone of all of the political commercials broadcast in the past month during local and state primaries, and you’d easily think that we’re a country torn apart by petty bickering.
Yet a new poll says that nearly a third of Americans describe themselves as “extremely patriotic,” a number that’s actually on the rise.

There’s a battle brewing in Washington to lift an FDA-imposed lifetime ban on blood donation for gay men. The ban, initiated in 1985, prevents a homosexual male from ever giving blood if he fesses up to having had sex with another man since 1977.
The presumption is that this type of behavior would put someone more at risk for having contracted HIV, the virus responsible for causing AIDS. But the scary part isn’t the ban itself, or what the specifics of the ban imply. The really scary part …

The internet chat site Chatroulette.com has learned the hard way what most of the rest of us probably could have told them going in: when you set up a website that pairs webcam users for random chats, what will appear in the windows won’t always be people’s faces.