President Obama says that the Boy Scouts should drop their national ban on allowing gay members. In an interview on Sunday, he was asked about his opinion regarding the recent announcement that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) are considering allowing gays to participate in the organization.

The president said that the Scouts are "a great institution that are promoting young people and exposing them to opportunities and leadership that will serve people for the rest of their lives. And I think nobody should be barred from that."

Freedom of speech can be a double-edged sword ... For better or worse, sometimes we have to listen to fellow Americans preach seriously twisted, even hateful ideas and values, and we have to respect that they have the right to do that. But we also have the right to respond to hate speech ... and even attempt to drown it out. That's exactly what a group of New Yorkers managed to do just before the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Anti-Islam, Quran-burning pastor Terry Jones was there, spewing hateful words about Muslims, while wearing a T-shirt that read, "Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Islam I Learned On 9/11." Somehow, a group of onlookers managed to quash his toxic spewing ... in the most wonderful, peaceful way. The New York Times posted a video of that truly inspiring, touching moment, in which love clearly trumped hate. Check it out ...

South Korean pop star PSY rocketed to international popularity over the summer with his surprise hit “Gangnam Style,” which recently became the most watched video on YouTube of all time.

How could it not? The video is AWESOME. The music is catchy and makes you want to dance, PSY’s giddy-up style dance moves are hilarious, and the whole thing just makes you smile. SNL even did a skit on the feel-good nature of the song, playing it whenever one of the characters felt sad. PSY has become such a sensation that he’s been scheduled to appear at a D.C. charity concert this month with President Obama in attendance.

It’s the song that just makes you happy. Which is why the following news just plain sucks: PSY might be profoundly anti-American.

There are many frights a woman can encounter while she’s out on a jog, but few as visually assaulting as potentially bumping into another person running buck booty naked just a few feet away. Things move, you know, and flap and jiggle and jostle about. Yikes. But that horror is a potential reality for residents of the Netherlands, where just any ol’ body can peel out of a T-shirt and sweats and run completely unclothed. A judge has OKed an appeal by a man who is a self-described “naturist,” legally giving citizens the green light to leave their clothes at home and do their daily road work completely nude. "If it was [offensive] then God wouldn't have given us genitals," said Andrew Lyall Pointon, the one-man catalyst behind the whole run-in-the-buff movement. "It is a win for all libertarians and a setback for all conservatives in the country." 

Well, it's the holiday season again! That joyful time when religious and athiest Americans duke it out over Christmas' ability to infiltrate every avenue of life. Even avenues that are supposed to be religion-free. And it seems like with every passing year, finger-pointing and hand-wringing about the "war on Christmas" gets more and more intense. Consider the recent brouhaha surrounding a public grade school field trip in Arkansas ...

After Agape Church invited students at Terry Elementary School in Little Rock to their performance of A Charlie Brown Christmas, teachers told parents in letters home that a school bus would shuttle children to and from the show at the church on a regular school day (Friday, December 14), according to the local news station KARK 4. And upon hearing the plan, atheist parents felt the need to get involved. 

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere except Rhode Island, apparently, where Governor Lincoln Chafee has zapped an annual celebration of that pesky “C” word. If you, like an evident number of residents in the Ocean State, tire of all the repeated mentioning of and hoopla about the birth of this Christ guy ‘round this time of year, head on over to their upcoming celebration, where onlookers will light a “holiday tree.” That, in case you’re unsure, is like a Christmas tree 4.0: all the glitz, all the decorations, none of that overt, in-your-face Christianity. Phew. Sweet relief. Finally a place to celebrate Christmas without the cumbersome mentioning of Jesus. Wait. Whaaaaat? 

When George W. Bush -- likely the most unpopular president in the history of the United States -- was re-elected, blue staters were shocked, appalled, and in mourning for about a week. But after that, we pulled ourselves up by the bootstraps and resolved to get what we could done despite his presidency and elect a Democrat in 2008. But now that President Obama has been re-elected, some red state Americans are reacting by taking a completely extremist tack. (Go figure.)

First, a disgruntled, ignorant teen tweeted she was moving to Australia "because their president is a Christian and actually supports what he says." Then, tons of conservatives threatened to move to Canada (oh please, have at it -- but our neighbors to the north have socialized medicine!). And now? Angry voters in as many as 20 states have filed petitions on the White House website seeking to secede from the union and form new state governments. No, they're not kidding.

With almost a week to go before we decide whether President Obama or Mitt Romney will occupy the White House for the next four years, voters aren't exactly holding back from saying how they really feel about either candidate. Yup, it's no holds barred time, people. Even so, supporters on both sides are coming up with creative ways of stating their case. And that seems to be what one gay young man has done in a video that's going viral.

In his clip, he explains why he is thankful to Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan and their supporters ...