need hope.

Wal-mart. Toys R Us. A car cut in half on the 110 last night. I had to pick my way slowly through the wreckage. Mumbai. Oh God Mumbai. A suicide.

death death death...murder

murder is worse than death.

Keith Olberman Special Comment on Prop 8

Hey folks,

Please, please watch this video:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27652443#27652443

-Edwin

More on Gay Marriage, Christianity, Morality

OK, I'm just going to barf a link at you, but only because it's such a good read, no matter where you stand on gay marriage, faith, morality, politics, etc.

I know, I know, bad manners...bon appetit:
http://dmeroit.blogspot.com/2008/09/proposition-8-part-two.html

Thanks to commenter switchtoicqkyo for sending me this link. I am reposting it on the front page for those who would otherwise miss it by not looking in the comments.

Halloween Dance

My Joe the Plumber costume got me a dance with this very lovely Sarah Palin, so I'll call it a success. Way to target the *swing* vote. Zing! Click the photo for a link to Rusty's Rhythm Club, one of the finest swing and lindy establishments in LA. Do check them out if you're in the area. Bill Nye also approves.

Restore Marriage: no on Prop 8

half formed thoughts, but strong feelings:

I'm a Christian, although for this post some will doubt, and yes that terrifies me, but I have to say something. I am voting no on Prop 8 precisely because I want to restore marriage and give it back it's meaning. In my heart this is how I must vote.

Prop 8 is a political issue, not a moral or spiritual one, and it's being used to divide voters and believers, the way Pharisees used the the Roman tax against Jesus. So if you want marriage to mean something more than political grandstanding, I suggest no on Prop 8.

and I believe that the whole anti-gay element in the church is in fact very deviant from Christ and Christianity.

i wrestle with this issue a lot

but in the end I keep coming to the conclusion that Jesus would be standing on other side from the church, with the homosexuals

while the church tries to rally against an easy target in order to unify its influence over its members the way bullies pick on kids.

and for us to AMEND our CONSTITUTION to exclude a class of people sounds like the most unchristian thing I have heard.

is homosexuality ruining family values and marriage in America? I point you to Desperate Housewives and Trading Spouses (among other heterosexual masterpieces) for the answer.

My coworker just got married, but faced the reality that CA voters would probably just null her marriage in a few weeks. She asked where all the money was coming from to break up her marriage. It broke my heart to tell her it was my church.

The meaning of marriage is that love can last, that two people can, by the strength of real caring love, publicly and privately commit to one another selflessly so as to become a greater whole. It is the belief that against other things, love is the greatest, and that against prevailing odds love will persevere. Proposition 8 flies in the face of this. Yes for marriage. Yes for gay marriage. No on prop 8.