“We are gonna worship like we’ve never worshiped before, and I declare that after all of this is over tonight, the remnant, the residue of this worship will saturate this ground and seep into that building,” said Sen. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, the Senate’s minority leader and one of the first speakers invited to take the stage. “And when it goes into that building, it will touch every heart that enters. God bless you, let us worship!”
I lived in Sacramento off and on 1984-86. I fondly remember beautiful hot sunny days when the girlfriend and I would drink a pitcher of Margaritas, get high and go rollerblading through the Capitol grounds. The Capitol was really great for rollerblading — long sweeping paths through lovely surroundings. It was a weird time: Reagan was in the White House then, as he had earlier been governor in Sacramento. The contras were the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers, Nicaragua threatened the Texas border, Oliver North was heroic for lying about arms sales to Iran. Seemed like things could hardly be weirder. Jeez, who knew? I think of those Capitol sidewalks now, and Christians christianizing like they never had before, hoping to leave their residue to saturate the ground, seep into a building, and touch people inside.
You understand that this is the State Senate minority leader of what is by far the most populous state in the United States? Americans are whackos.