If it’s Sunday, it must be time for another eye-roller from the Paper of Record — this time, not from the Magazine, but from the SundayStyles section. Look: Not a parody. Here’s the lede:

Ronnelle Adams came out to his mother twice, first about his homosexuality, then about his atheism.

It’s hard to imagine a better one-sentence Times lede than that one. Well done! The piece is even more hathotic than the lede suggests. Turns out the piece is about black folks who are atheists, and whose families find their godlessness hard to take. Lo, this is pretty close to a perfect New York Times story. The only way it could be improved, by the NYT’s standards, is if it included a component about elderly secular Jews who live next door to the gay black atheist’s in a fabulous Manhattan apartment building, and who take him in over the holiday season as surrogate parents because his Christian family makes him feel rejected.

(You think I’m being too snarky? A Jewish friend whose spouse works at the Times told me that in terms of page views and most e-mailed, the most popular stories tend to be pieces that have to do with Jews (and Israel), homosexuals, and real estate. “The Times knows its audience,” said my friend. No doubt.)

UPDATE: More First World Problems, as chronicled by the NYT SundayStyles:

Uniqueness seems to be a primary motive and has spurred an unspoken competition among parents to find the most original names, said Laura Wattenberg, author of “The Baby Name Wizard,” a guide for selecting a name. “Parents thinking of a baby name will type it in and say: ‘Oh, no, it’s taken. There are already three others with that name.’ ”

But too little research can backfire, too. Deborah Goldstein, 43, and her partner, Gabriella Di Maggio, thought they had chosen unique names for their boys: Levi and Asher. To be sure, they checked the Social Security Administration’s list of most popular baby names. Neither was in the top 100.

“I did not want them to have names where there were 15 in their class like I was,” Ms. Goldstein said. “There were a lot of Debbies back then”

But shortly after the couple moved to South Orange, N.J., in 2006, they had a rude awakening. While waiting at an ice cream parlor, they heard a woman shout “Asher!” at a different boy.

“It was two other Jewish lesbian moms with a child of the same name,” Ms. Goldstein said. Google had let her down. “It didn’t tell us it’s a unique name unless you move to a neighborhood outside New York City where other trendy Jews are moving, too.”

Oh, my valve.