The KSBY reporter that interviewed me last week about Judge Vaughn Walker's decision to overturn the vote of 7 million Californians called and left a message on my cell phone while I was showering this morning asking me to be interviewed again today since Judge V.W. is going to make known his judgement today as to whether gay couples can go on and get married in CA - even though the case is being appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and then most likely on to the Supreme Court. Our interview last week in my office, which my wife overheard while working in a back room, lasted perhaps up to 15 minutes. What they showed in their report in the news was hardly a sentence, and not one I would have chosen for sure. So we've decided t.v. interviews, which we have no control over what segment they show, and which will most likely always be a very small percentage of what was discussed in the interview, just aren't a wise way to communicate how we feel about marriage, and about the drive by some to re-invent it or broaden it, which always weakens it. I know this lady is only doing her job. I'm trying hard to do mine. And I don't think t.v. interviews help accomplish what I am after.

Sound bites rarely help thinking people effectively grapple with a given topic. They tend more I believe to inflame and divide.

Well not only have we decided to bring an abrupt end to my T.V. interviews (have only had two, and may have never been asked to give another), but we also decided on Monday to cancel our Tribune subscription. Monday's main editorial under the heading of "Perspective" along with their chosen cartoon in the middle of the editorial page totally blasted Christians as homophobic, mean spirited, and dumb (re: responses to Judge V.W.'s judgement against Prop 8). I'm sure there are some that fit that label. But that is no more fair than saying all Tribune writers and staff are leftist, socialist, anti God and family radicals. I didn't write them a mean letter. And I was very kind to the poor young man that works in subscriptions and had nothing to do with the choosing of that editorial and cartoon, but had to listen to my reasons for dropping my subscription. But I cannot subsidize a shrinking newspaper that continues to stand against much of what I stand for. Bye bye Tribune.