But before you read the list you might want to get all the 411 and highlights on what bills passed and what bills didn’t.
Here’s the highlights from LA Times from earlier last week:
The California Assembly voted to release extremely sick prison inmates, a move that would pass the cost of their medical care on to the federal Medicare program, saving the state an estimated $42 million a year.
The bill, SB 1399, written by Sen. Mark Leno (D–San Francisco) would apply only to inmates judged to be permanently medically incapacitated. “We’re paying prison guards, two of them, to overlook prisoners who are on a respirator,” said Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D-Montebello).
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Engle in Sacramento doin' his callin' we guess.
Thousands of conservative Christians gathered at California’s capitol building on Saturday, to rally against homosexuality, abortion and prostitution. The rally in Sacramento was part of a movement called “Call to Conscience,” being led by Lou Engle.
For those of you not familiar with Engle, he was in the news earlier this year for supporting Uganda’s proposed law to execute gays. Senator Brownbeck from Kansas was prompted by the Kansas Democratic Party in May, to denounce his affiliation with Engle because of his anti-gay Uganda ties. Now Engle has been endorsed by Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee along with a list of top anti-LGBT religious leaders according to San Diego Gay & Lesbian News (SDGLN).
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“This year a lot of folks think this is our best shot at changing Congress,” the narrator of the ad says. “Course that all depends on the caliber of our candidates.”
The ad then cuts from a shot of Gorman standing with her hair blowing in the wind to her firing a Thompson submachine gun into the desert.
“Meet Pamela Gorman, candidate for Congress in Arizona-03,” the narrator says. “Conservative Christian and a pretty fair shot.”
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20-something Christians overwhelmingly indifferent to gay marriage debate. The reason? Gay friends.
Repost from Kangas Commune
By Jonathan Merritt
Twentysomethings have dropped out of the gay marriage debate. Why?
When Proposition 8 was ruled “unconstitutional” by a California judge, Christian leaders let out a collective cry. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council vowed to keep fighting, and the American Family Association called it an “absolutely outrageous and unconscionable ruling.” Same-sex marriage has long been a centerpiece issue in the culture wars, and one might say that the Prop 8 debate serves as another call to arms for many conservative Christians.
Young Christians: M.I.A.
One demographic strangely absent from this debate is younger Christians. Though we don’t normally shy away from advocacy—see Darfur, clean water projects, orphan care, poverty and missions—our generation seems unwilling to fight this battle. According to a 2009 poll by the Pew Forum, 65 percent of religious Americans aged 65+ oppose gay marriage while only 45 percent of those ages 18-29 do. A 2008 poll reported that 52 percent of young evangelicals now say they support either gay marriage or civil unions.
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From Right Wing Watch:
Conservative group the Liberty Counsel is “totally APPALLED that certain conservative leaders are backing down in their defense of marriage while making major concessions to the views of the pro-homosexual community.”
Obviously, “certain conservative leaders” means “Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, and others who waffle to take a strong public stand for the protection of marriage,” which is why LC has started a petition demanding that conservatives:
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