400-408 – Mark Gungor, senior pastor of Bayside Church in Green Bay Wisconsin, author of Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage (laughyourway.com), on fatherhood and marriage.
• Fox News, 'Meet the Press' Moderator Tim Russert Dies at 58.
• An FRC ad will run this weekend in California with the following language, "Beginning Monday judges are removing the word 'husband' from California marriage certificates. The next step will be to remove the term 'father' from birth certificates. Enjoy this Father's Day…It might be your last. Every child deserves a Mom and Dad. For a Free Marriage Protection Kit, visit www.frc.org/marriage."
Who will be the first same-sex couple to marry in L.A. County? Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, who on Valentine's Day 2004 were denied a marriage license at the Beverly Hills Courthouse and challenged that rejection all the way to the California Supreme Court. Their license, to be issued in Beverly Hills, was given an exception "in recognition of their unique role in the court's decision," said acting Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean C. Logan.
Does marriage for same-sex couples provide any more legal benefits than a registered domestic partnership? -- Vern and Neil. California law already grants domestic partners virtually all of the legal benefits married couples enjoy. But having the married status can help in how couples are treated by other people and in crisis situations, such as when a spouse is hospitalized, said Jon Davidson, legal director for Lambda Legal. "If they say, 'I'm a domestic partner,' someone might say, 'What's that?' " Davidson said. "But if they say, 'I'm a spouse,' they'll know what that means."
413-423 – Lawrence Smith, vice president of communications at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, on the mixed feelings he has for Obama's candidacy as both an African-American and a Christian.
• Baptist Press (6/5), History with a heavy heart.
428-437 – Greg Waybright, former president of Trinity International University, now senior pastor at Lake Avenue in Pasadena (lakeave.org), his Good News for the Journey can be heard Sunday's at 11am on KKLA, on fatherhood, gay marriage, and our opportunity to minister in post-Christian America.
443-452 – Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel (lc.org), and dean of the Liberty University School of Law (law.liberty.edu), on their petition filed yesterday with the California Supreme Court.
• Wall Street Journal, County Clerks in California Closing Doors on Marriage Ceremonies.
458-508 – Thabiti Anyabwile, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman (fbc.org.ky), and author of The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity, on the influence of liberation theology within the black church in America.
• Yahoo News (6/11), Christian Leaders meet privately with Obama.
512-523 – Thabiti Anyabwile,
528-539 – • Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Biofuels Are Indefensible in Our Hungry World. He's Chairman of Nestle.
544-554 – • WSJ Editors, President Kennedy.
• James Taranto, Adiós, Guantánamo.
• Hugh Hewitt, The United States Supreme Court Versus America: Awarding "The Privilege of Habeas Corpus To Terrorists."
558-608 – Was your father also your dad? Give me one word to describe your dad. If he's gone, what would you tell him today if you could?
612-623 – Calls
628-639 – Want to help a single mom aching for a "Dad-Mentor" for her children? Call the Single Moms Ministry of Orange County at (714) 679-8567.
644-655 – Calls
