Ungovernable and Broken:

California, The Church and Cows

My cousin Lori, a big paper and web reader, turned me on to an insightful blog article about California and our near-death insolvency.  "There's no budget, but California is all over the foreign cow issue" lifts up some terrifying aspects of the train-wreck we all seem to agree our state has become, a place in which the general population seems to becoming not merely depressed and hopeless, but deeply apathetic and uninterested in solving our problems.  "If we all focus on the budget, then we're going to crash [personally and emotionally]" said a congresswoman.  Maybe that's why so many congress members are up in arms about foreign cows being used in a Happy California Cow commercial.  Maybe that's why the governor went an made a bad cult movie with decrepit action stars [The Expendables | TRAILER] while serving our state in the past year.  Nothing better to do, I guess.  Here's the commercial.  You may need to watch it on the original site: LINK

Arguing Prop 8 at the Supreme Court
Majority vs. Minority: is it about tolerance or more?

Tomorrow from 9:00am - 12:00pm the arguments regarding the constitutionality of Proposition 8 will be argued before the Supreme Court. I've had a flood of emails in the past days inviting me to participate - and to tell folks in our church how they can/should participate in making their voices heard. I've also learned (and I could be wrong) that Attorney General Jerry Brown will give the opening arguments speaking for 15 minutes each for both side of the argument. I wonder, from what I've experienced, and my own perspective on the issue of this constitutionality - can you be impartial and argue for both - can you speak - can we speak or even fathom - both the rights of the majority and the rights of the minority? Is it about tolerance of an agenda/perspective that is other? Or is it about all of us and the way in which inalienable rights are protected and articulated?

Watch the preecedings live at http://www.calchannel.com/

Here's a link to a facebook invitation to rally locally against Prop 8 tomorrow http://100000march.org/sfmarch.html

Here's a link sent to online pastors by a California church seeking to offer a webinar about how to be invovled http://www.skylinechurch.org/pastors_rapid_response.php