A recent poll shows a huge shift in American attitudes toward gay marriage, from a 32 percent approval in 2004 to 53 percent today. I am one of those people who changed their minds.

In many ways, the hearing led by Senate Democrats on Tuesday was the dramatic antithesis of one House Republicans held earlier this month on homegrown Islamic radicalism.

I read a couple of articles today refuting Harvard political scientist and author Robert Putnam's recent claim that based on research he did for his latest book, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, he determined that there are almost no atheists in America.

"Israeli billionaire Stef Wertheimer, who helped start 5 other industrial parks throughout Israel, has just opened a new one in Nazareth.

Two articles / videos: President Obama Films 'It Gets Better' Video To Combat Gay Bullying

"It would be another test of a question they wondered when they first set off from New York three weeks earlier: Is America still the accepting nation that embraced our forebears or has it reached a new level of intolerance?

A radio interviewer asked me the other day if I thought bigotry was the only reason why someone might oppose the Islamic center in Lower Manhattan. No, I don't.

As kids head back to school, conservative Christian media ministry Focus on the Family perceives a bully on the playground: national gay-advocacy groups.

Daisy Khan is shocked. In a phone conversation with her minutes ago she said she couldn't believe that what had started out as "a community center for everyone in the neighborhood, to scale up and build up people of all religions has become so skewed.

Former Democratic U.S. senator and presidential candidate John Edwards is a "faggot," according to conservative provocateur and author Ann Coulter some years back.

Justice has been served. As most of you are probably fully aware, District Chief Justice Vaughn R. Walker, ruling on the case Kristin M. Perry v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has overturned California's infamous "Proposition 8," which banned gay marriage within the State.

Well... ...of course it is. That's the idea isn't it?

The latest plot against America, we're told, is smoldering in the ashes of 9/11. A Muslim organization wants to build a "community center," including a mosque, two blocks from the site of the fallen World Trade Center.

Tennessee's lieutenant governor, Ron Ramsey, has been asked to explain recent comments captured on video in which he suggested that Muslim Americans might not have a constitutionally protected right to worship in the United States.

"Lampposts across Tel Aviv have been flying rainbow flags for the past week in preparation for Friday's 13th annual gay pride parade.

An historic speech-- now more important than ever: "This is a video of then President George W. Bush's entire "Islam is Peace" speech that was delivered at the Islamic Center in Washington D.C. 6 days after 911.

A few days back, small groups of college students at Northwestern, Illinois and Wisconsin -- angry that Comedy Central had been intimidated into censoring a South Park episode depicting the Prophet Muhammad -- chalked their quads with stick figures and labeled these drawings "Pro …

Canadians have long boasted an international reputation for tolerance, and rightly so. We tend to welcome newcomers respectfully and with reasonably open arms. For the most part, we celebrate the diversity that has come increasingly to define, and enrich, us.