Well, everyone else has put in their two cents, so I might as well dive in too. I figure that, given that I'm neither gay nor Christian, I am supremely unqualified to address the topic, which is of course exactly why I'm about to - I mean, hey, this is the blogosphere, ain't it?
My starting point is the throw-away line at the end of "Some Like It Hot." The writers -- I.A.L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (if I'm remembering it right) -- wanted the Joe E. Brown to deliver a really killer closing line to the movie. The problem is, neither writer could come up with the right one. So they put a placeholder in the script, hoping that at the last moment, in rehearsals on the set, they'd come up with something that would knock it out of the ballpark. If you don't know, at the last moment, Joe E. Brown's character discovers that the woman he's courting is actually Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon in drag. The placeholder line in the script was a throwaway: "Nobody's perfect." And during shooting, Billy Wilder decided to go with it -- and it's become one of the most famous movie lines ever.
So -- take it from Joe E. Brown, nobody's perfect.
The grating part is the way that Rick Warren is imperfect.
