Today's Show: Waiting for the Apocalype

2:30 ET: Alan Spector, co- chair of Family Equality Coalition of Hawaii will join me to talk about the battle for civil unions in the state, which has been marked by protest from antigay forces. The legislature make soon pass a civil unions bill for gays and lesbians.

3:30 ET: Our friend Mark Thompson, whose show Make It Plain, airs on SIRIUS LEFT 146 and XM America Left 167, will stop by and talk with me.

4:40 ET: Veronica Chater, author Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family. The book is her memoir about her father, who was angered by the Vatican II reforms and took the family to Fatima from California to lead radical extremist Catholic lives.