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URGENT: Urge Newsom to veto AB 495, stealing kids from their parents

Sunday, July 13, 2025, 6:05 pm | Randy Thomasson

They say you’re the parent, but they strip you of your parental rights.

Of all the evil bills by the ruling Democrats in Sacramento, one of the worst is AB 495, which threatens to eliminate your God-given parental rights if you’re not guarding your children like a hawk or a bear.

Dressed up as a bill purportedly to “provide stability” for children of illegal aliens who are detained by ICE, AB 495 broadly permits ANYONE to take custody of and make school decisions and medical decisions for ANY child in California, behind the backs of parents. This is the most anti-parent bill in California history!

From the July 3, 2025 analysis of the Senate Human Services Committee, which, after their pro-illegal-alien analysis, added the reality analyses of the pro-biological-female groups Women Are Real and Our Duty-USA:

Arguments in Opposition:

According to Women Are Real, “This bill creates a dangerous loophole in California law by granting broad authority over children to unvetted adults. It expands the Caregiver’s Authorization Affidavit to include “nonrelative extended family members,” a category so loosely defined it could include almost anyone—a neighbor, a teacher, a mentor, or a casual acquaintance. Once this form is signed, that adult is legally empowered to enroll a child in school and even make medical decisions. This is all without any court oversight, background check, or verification with the child’s parent or legal guardian. In practice, this opens the door to abuse and trafficking. The bill also makes records of joint guardianship appointments confidential, shielding them from public scrutiny and potentially hindering law enforcement and social services from identifying patterns of abuse.”

According to Our Duty-USA, “AB 495 is a child trafficker’s and kidnapper’s dream bill. There are over 300,000 unaccounted children who have crossed the border. There are countless other children of parents who have failed to pay their debts to the criminals assisting them to get into the United States. Sex-trafficking has replaced drugs as the most lucrative criminal enterprise. And California is once again a leader in harms to children. AB 495 permits ANYONE to claim guardianship over a child if the child’s parents cannot be found or if a person is 18 years or older claims that the parent cannot be found. It is all done legally with a one-page affidavit, and a stranger can claim a child for themselves, control the child’s schooling, medical procedures and of course, move the child into his home.”

That one-page form is found right in AB 495 in Section 5, which says anyone can declare he or she is a “nonrelative extended family member,” who further declares he or she is “unable to contact the parent(s) or other person(s) having legal custody of the minor at this time.

Upon presentation of a copy of this signed form to a school office or medical facility, the self-declared “nonrelative extended family member” is recognized as having “a sufficient basis for a determination of residency of the minor, without the requirement of a guardianship or other custody order,” and the “affidavit shall confer the same rights to authorize medical care and dental care for the minor that are given to guardians under Section 2353 of the Probate Code. The medical care authorized for a relative or nonrelative extended family member caregiver may include mental health treatment subject to the limitations of Section 2356 of the Probate Code.”

Now you know how the left-wing dream of AB 495 is a California parent’s nightmare. And sadly, this horrible bill threatening to rip children from their parents by putting them into the hands of a predator, a mutilator, or worse, is expected to pass the loony, Democrat-Party-controlled State Legislature. What’s more, AB 495 already has the support of two “Republicans,’ Juan Alanis of Stanislaus County and Greg Wallis of the Greater Palm Springs Area, who voted yes on AB 495 on June 3 on the Assembly floor.

However, because termed-out Democrat Party Governor Gavin Newsom is actively running for U.S. President, he’s worth lobbying, because he would be exceedingly stupid to sign AB 495, a bill allowing children to be stolen from their parents by strangers filling out a one-page form.

TAKE QUICK ACTION: Urge Gavin Newsom, who’s indeed running for president in 2028, to veto AB 495.

Send this suggested message: “Governor Newsom, please veto AB 495. This bad bill is written so broadly, it would allow strangers, using a one-page form, to get custody of a child, move that child into their residence, decide the child’s schooling, and decide the child’s medical treatment — without any court oversight, background check, or verification with the child’s parent or legal guardian. Please veto this poorly-written bill threatening California parents and their children.”

3 ways to contact Newsom’s legislative staff:

  1. Web form: Click here, then select “Legislation Issues/Concerns,” then “Leave a Comment, ” then select “Con,” then paste in your message, then enter your contact information, then click “submit.”
  2. Phone: The Governor’s “constituent services” phones are answered by staffers who are paid to take your message. Call 916-445-2841 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
  3. Postal mail: You may write to: Governor Gavin Newsom, 1021 O Street, Suite 9000, Sacramento, CA 95814. Please put on the envelope and your letter, “Re: AB 495 — Veto.”

There needs to be a huge outcry about this evil bill permitting the legal kidnapping of vulnerable children. Please share this statewide alert with others!

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
Jesus Christ, Savior of the world and God in the flesh, in Matthew 18:6

How to save girls’ sports in California

Monday, July 7, 2025, 1:33 pm | Randy Thomasson

Without being cynical or pollyannaish, what are the facts about how to save girls’ sports — for real XX girls — in California?

As long as the Democrat Party politicians “rule” California, the only practical hope is SCOTUS finding that California’s AB 1266 from 2013 violates the 1972 federal law known as Title IX, which requires schools receiving federal funds to offer girls’ sports and girls’ activities if they offer the same to boys.

Because Newsom & Co. is adamant about keeping its unnatural, transsexual “trans identity” agenda going. On July 7, California’s State Department of Education rejected the U.S. Department of Education’s resolution letter, so expect a federal lawsuit, which might be heard along with two other “trans invading girls’ sports” lawsuits just accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

This frustrating, multi-year attack by transsexual activists and their Democrat Party politicians upon science, justice, and real girls is another reason SaveCalifornia.com strongly recommends that California parents prioritize rescuing their children.

Here’s our recent social media explaining the facts:


Again, the only practical way to save girls’ sports in California is for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule AB 1266 unconstitutional.

And because the “trans” invasion of girls’ sports is just the tip of the iceberg, the only practical way to rescue your children from a flood of lie-based indoctrination is to permanently exit the anti-family, low-academics, godless government-controlled schools. Our website for parents, RescueYourChild.com, shows you how.

“A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the LORD your God.”
The Bible, Deuteronomy 22:5

All the evidence says dads are essential

Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 8:21 pm | Randy Thomasson

All the evidence points to men being special and fathers being vastly influential, even essential.

This Father’s Day week, please do something to honor a father you know. They need your affirmation, especially when the media, culture, and bad government policies tear them down.

Below is proof on the importance of fathers. Skim it to excite you about the great good that fathers can bestow upon their children. And if you’re a feminist skeptic, who thinks a woman can do everything a man can do, get ready to think anew!

“The Significance of a Father’s Influence,” Focus on the Family, 2011
Dr. David Popenoe, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and Co-Director of the National Marriage Project, has provided us with a good summary and overview of the subject. Here’s what he has to say:

Fathers are far more than just “second adults” in the home. Involved fathers – especially biological fathers – bring positive benefits to their children that no other person is as likely to bring. They provide protection and economic support and male role models. They have a parenting style that is significantly different from that of a mother and that difference is important in healthy child development. David Popenoe, Life Without Father, (New York: The Free Press, 1996), p. 163.

One of the most vital aspects of a dad’s contribution to the lives of his kids lies precisely in what Dr. Popenoe calls his “significantly different parenting style.” Men and women are different. As a result mothers and fathers parent their children differently.

Dads, for instance, love their children “more dangerously.” That’s because they play “rougher” and are more likely to encourage risk-taking. They provide kids with a broader diversity of social experiences. They also introduce them to a wider variety of methods of dealing with life. They tend to stress rules, justice, fairness, and duty in discipline. In this way, they teach children the objectivity and consequences of right and wrong. They give kids insight into the world of men. They prepare them for the challenges of life and demonstrate by example the meaning of respect between the sexes. In connection with this last point, research indicates that a married father is substantially less likely to abuse his wife or children than men in any other category.

Fathers encourage competition, engendering independence. Mothers promote equity, creating a sense of security. Dads emphasize conceptual communication, which helps kids expand their vocabulary and intellectual capacities. Moms major in sympathy, care, and help, thus demonstrating the importance of relationships. Dads tend to see their child in relation to the rest of the world. Moms tend to see the rest of the world in relation to their child. Neither style of parenting is adequate in and of itself. Taken together, they balance each other out and equip the up-and-coming generation with a healthy, well-rounded approach to life.

More research:

The Extent of Fatherlessness
The Consequences of Fatherlessness
The Causes of Fatherlessness
The Benefits of the “Father Effect”

“Why Fathers Are Important in a Child’s Life: 16 Key Reasons,” Callen Winslow

“Why Fathers Matter,” The Fathering Project (Australia)

“The Importance of Fathers,” A Father’s Place (South Carolina)

And here’s my personal encouragement for professing Christian fathers and their wives:

When fathers are strong, practical hope for our nation increases.

If you want a good culture and good government again, strengthen your own home with fathers being the center of it.

For when a man reads the Word of God and grows in God’s purposes, he needs and deserves his wife’s support, not her distrustful opposition.

Bottom line, we need real men to love King Jesus, and real women to intrinsically respect the man as the family’s loving leader. As a result, good wives receive more security, love, purpose, and peace.

This Father’s Day, let’s intrinsically value fathers and husbands – let’s strengthen men to be the men that God designed them to be!

My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord,
Nor detest His correction;
For whom the Lord loves He corrects,
Just as a father the son in whom he delights.

Proverbs 3:11-12

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?
Hebrews 12:7

Put him into the garden – to dress it, and to keep it.Horticulture, or gardening, is the first kind of employment on record, and that in which man was engaged while in a state of perfection and innocence. Though the garden may be supposed to produce all things spontaneously, as the whole vegetable surface of the earth certainly did at the creation, yet dressing and tilling were afterwards necessary to maintain the different kinds of plants and vegetables in their perfection, and to repress luxuriance. Even in a state of innocence we cannot conceive it possible that man could have been happy if inactive. God gave him work to do, and his employment contributed to his happiness; for the structure of his body, as well as of his mind, plainly proves that he was never intended for a merely contemplative life.
Adam Clarke commentary on Genesis 2:15