By Mark Joseph
Producer/Author/Editor, BullyPulpit.com
I don’t watch American Idol, but I have been keeping up with what the L.A. Times, Newsweek and “The O’Reilly Factor “have been saying about an alleged red-state/blue-state showdown between the two finalists, Kris Allen and Adam Lambert. Allen, it turns out is a “worship leader” at his church, which in non-Evangeli-speak roughly translates to “guy who leads the singing,” while Adam Lambert is the contestant who has seen photographs of himself allegedly kissing other guys splashed across the Internet. Although Lambert didn’t exactly confirm his sexual orientation other than to say that he knows who he is, it was widely seen as the showdown between the gay guy and the Christian guy, with a judgment to be rendered by middle America.
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The voting patterns of “Idol” viewers and the large presence of Christian performers heralds a new era of integration into mainstream culture by people of faith.
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