By the end of last week, the gays got married...even in San Diego County. But things turned a little weird for San Diego County Clerk Greg Smith, who was confronted with at least 14 employees who said same sex weddings and their religious beliefs did not mix. It was the first time gay marriage opponents successfully, and boldly, played the religion card at his office...and possibly anywhere else in the state.
Last Tuesday, at West Hollywood Park, gay couples made their own religious statement
Churches across California are pulling out the stops, according to a recent Associated Press report, by praying and fasting for the next 40 days for the passage of Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage ballot measure. The faithful are reportedly planning to subsist on soup and juice, and then gather in San Diego for a tent revival of sorts three days before Election Day in November.
“This is not political to us," Jim Garlow, the pastor of the evangelical Skyline Church in San Diego County, tol
NOTE: This post is about the Sylmar fire in October of 2008. For news on the Sylmar fire of November 15, 2008, click here.
Note: 10:41 a.m. update regarding the Martin Mars amphibious craft capable of dropping thermogel.
With a wall of fire hundreds of feet long in places, wind-driven smoke billowing over the Hollywood Hills and blanketing most of the San Fernando Valley, and the busy 210 Freeway closed and snarling traffic for miles, fire officials warned that the city could face a "siege" if
If Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was hoping for a quick injection of gay dollars into California's ailing economy this summer, it may not happen. Opponents of same-sex marriage asked the state's Supreme Court on Thursday to delay its decision to allow queer weddings until after November 4, when an expected anti-gay marriage ballot measure will be put in front of the voters.
