Sometimes it’s downright embarrassing to be from California … I know, it’s a free country, I can move anytime I want. Not so for me!
In ministry, what is true for a lay Christian is not be true for clergy (we believe we’ve been called by God to our positions and locations; we believe only He can call us away).
In ministry, what is true for a lay Christian is not be true for clergy (we believe we’ve been called by God to our positions and locations; we believe only He can call us away).
Committees in the Assembly and Senate rejected constitutional amendments Tuesday that would ban gay marriages and strip away a long list of rights granted domestic partners in recent years.
Randy Thomasson, president of the Campaign for Children and Families said,
"This disturbing display of arrogance against marriage and the voters means average Californians must take matters into their own hands."
I believe the people of this great state can be thoroughly ignored by their legislature because of the way the state’s legislative districts are drawn. It allows liberal and leftist democratic strongholds (San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles), which garner the most representation, to retain a legislative majority in a state where the people’s majority is to right of center and where the majority of the people are decent God fearing people (similar to the red-blue county map of the USA).
I admit the loss but not the defeat!
The cultural psychology of this leads to pressures on voters similar to those felt by the Colonists at the time of the Boston Tea Party … "taxation without representation" is a reality for many of us.
The cultural psychology of this leads to pressures on voters similar to those felt by the Colonists at the time of the Boston Tea Party … "taxation without representation" is a reality for many of us.
When people begin to feel disenfranchised, grassroots pressure builds and if a path of release for that pressure cannot be found a free people will make one. Sadly this is not always good for the culture or the nation.
Too bad dems are lousy historians and even worse sociologists … what’s the cause of this blindness in their party?
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Too bad dems are lousy historians and even worse sociologists … what’s the cause of this blindness in their party?
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