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This has been out for sometime, but just got it to work. This site gives you step by step instruction of how to set up bi-directional sync between Thunderbird/Lightening and Google Calendar.  

bfish.xaedalus.net » Stay in Sync with GCal and Thunderbird.

The trick is the Thunderbird extension Provider:

Provider allows bidirectional syncing between the Lightning Calendaring Extension in Thunderbird and Google’s GCal Service. This is possible because Google, being the lovely chaps that they are, decided to opt for the iCalendar standard in GCal, well done chaps

Installation of Provider is pretty similar to that of Lightning. Again, go to the Add-ons Window (Tools -> Add-Ons) and Install the XPI available for download from Provider’s Page in the Mozilla Add-on repository. Provider uses a slightly different licence (MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-licence) to most Mozilla Add-ons and therefore the first link on the page above takes you to a EULA that you need to agree to.

Works like a charm. I can syn multiple gCal, and sync both ways. A couple of notes, though:

• If one of the calendar is a google "group calendar", then the default email logon is not correct. You need to use your gmail logon. 
• It doesn’t work if you create event that is of the "to-do" type. Thundrebird/Lightening allows you to post an event as to-do, in which case Provider will simply ignore your new event.

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