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!
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.
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
Thursday, June 5, 2025, 12:05 pm | Randy Thomasson
SaveCalifornia.com provides this solely for educational purposes and does not support or oppose candidates for public office.
With this being a deadline week to pass bills in their house of origin, many bad Democrat Party bills have already passed, including more “LGBTQIA+” tyranny and indoctrination, and more baby-killing via abortions.
And, on your behalf, SaveCalifornia.com has been tracking which Republicans are voting like Democrats.
Ask yourself — how many times does a Republican have to betray you on non-negotiable issues before you call him or her a RINO (Republican In Name Only) and oppose them?
Here are the RINOs in the California State Assembly (the 80-member lower house), based on at least 3 “yes” votes on 13 Democrat-authored, anti-family bills on the floor:
Greg Wallis of the Greater Palm Springs area Supported HR 38, AB 40, AB 45, AB 54, AB 86, AB 260, AB 302, AB 715, AB 822, AB 908, AB 935, AB 1084
Juan Alanis of Stanislaus County Supported AB 45, AB 54, AB 86, AB 260, AB 715, AB 822, AB 908, AB 935
Laurie Davies of south Orange County and north San Diego County Supported HR 38, AB 45, AB 86, AB 302, AB 715, AB 822, AB 932
Josh Hoover of northeast Sacramento County Supported HR 38, AB 86, AB 715, AB 822, AB 932
Diane Dixon of Orange County’s beach cities Supported AB 86, AB 715, AB 932
Heath Flora of Galt, Lodi, Manteca (south Sacramento Co. and part of San Joaquin Co.) Supported AB 86, AB 715, AB 822
Carl DeMaio of east San Diego County Supported HR 38, AB 86, AB 715
HR 38 honoring sexual anarchist and predator of teens Harvey Milk of San Francisco Resolution coauthors on May 19 included Republicans Phillip Chen, Laurie Davies, Carl DeMaio, Josh Hoover, Tom Lackey, Tri Ta, David Tangipa, and Greg Wallis
AB 40 defining “emergency medical services” at hospitals to include abortions (baby-killing) Joining the ruling Democrats in voting “yes” on April 21 was Republican Greg Wallis
AB 45 prohibiting other states’ law enforcement from using “geofence” technology to locate teen and pre-teen girls from other states brought to California for abortions Joining the supermajority Democrats in voting “yes” on June 3 were Republicans Juan Alanis, Laurie Davies, and Greg Wallis
AB 54 exempting dangerous chemical abortions (baby-killing) from civil or criminal liability laws Joining the ruling Democrats in voting “yes” on May 21 were Republicans Juan Alanis and Greg Wallis
AB 86 requiring the State Board of Education to adopt K-8 “sexual health education materials” based on the anti-family 2019 “health curriculum framework Joining the supermajority Democrats in voting “yes” on May 29 were Republicans Juan Alanis, Laurie Davies, Carl DeMaio, Diane Dixon, Stan Ellis, Heath Flora, James Gallagher, Jeff Gonzalez, Josh Hoover, Alexandra Macedo, and Greg Wallis
AB 260 requiring pharmacists to dispense chemical abortion drugs to minors, and insurers to pay for them Joining the ruling Democrats in voting “yes” on May 28 were Republicans Juan Alanis and Greg Wallis
AB 302 prohibiting health insurers from disclosing information about the abortions (baby-killing) or “sex changes” of teens or pre-teens transported from another state Joining the supermajority Democrats in voting “yes” on May 23 were Republicans Laurie Davies and Greg Wallis
AB 715 prohibiting K-12 government schools from allowing any classroom materials that don’t promote “gender, gender identity, gender expression … sexual orientation” Joining the ruling Democrats in voting “yes” on May 29 were Republicans Juan Alanis, Leticia Castillo, Laurie Davies, Carl DeMaio, Diane Dixon, Stan Ellis, Heath Flora, James Gallagher, Jeff Gonzalez, Heather Hadwick, Josh Hoover, Tom Lackey, Alexandra Macedo, Joe Patterson, Kate Sanchez, Tri Ta, and Greg Wallis
AB 822 reauthorizing the biased “Commission on the State of Hate” Joining the supermajority Democrats in voting “yes” on June 2 were Republicans Juan Alanis, Laurie Davies, Heath Flora, Josh Hoover, and Greg Wallis
AB 908 requiring compliance reviews to ensure pro-“LGBT+” curriculum is taught to children in California’s K-12 government schools Joining the ruling Democrats in voting “yes” on June 2 were Republicans Juan Alanis and Greg Wallis
AB 932 prohibiting “gender identity/expression” discrimination in public school, city, and county sports programs and sports facilities. Joining the supermajority Democrats in voting “yes” on June 2 were Republicans Phillip Chen, Laurie Davies, Diane Dixon, Heather Hadwick and Josh Hoover
AB 935 requiring the state’s Civil Right Department to promote claims of “LGBTQIA+” “discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying” Joining the ruling Democrats in voting “yes” on June 3 were Republicans Juan Alanis and Greg Wallis
AB 1084 fast-tracking “sex change” legal proceedings for children, cutting out parents Joining the supermajority Democrats in voting “yes” on June 4 was Republican Greg Wallis
What to do about RINOs? Replace them by refusing to support them.
Having a Democrat win the seat for a term will allow you to help expose their evil deeds, and importantly, give you motivation to recruit and support a conservative, constitutional, pro-family fighter to win in the next election.
“Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.” Advice of Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, in Exodus 18:21
This is an emergency alert to STOP Republican state legislators from voting in favor of anti-family sexual perversity — BIG votes June 2-6!
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PROBLEM #1:In the worst example in decades of Republicans selling out family values in California, 2 awful Democrat Party bills to sexually indoctrinate children all the more HAVE PASSED the State Assembly, with RINOs joining the supermajority Democrats.
AB 86 by Democrat Party Assemblywoman Tasha Boerner would require the California State Board of Education to adopt K-8 “sexual health education materials.” All based on the anti-family 2019 curriculum frameworks requiring kids to be positively taught to accept masturbation, oral sex, teen fornication, homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality, abortion, and more.
AB 86 has been sent to the State Senate after its May 29 passage on the Assembly floor (see video 3:12:00 to 3:13:17 in which no Republican spoke against it; voting yes for this sexual indoctrination bill were 51 Democrats + 11 Republicans: Juan Alanis, Laurie Davies, Carl DeMaio, Diane Dixon, Stan Ellis, Heath Flora, James Gallagher, Jeff Gonzalez, Josh Hoover, Alexandra Macedo, and Greg Wallis; abstaining were 8 Republicans: Leticia Castillo, Phillip Chen, Heather Hadwick, Tom Lackey, Joe Patterson, Kate Sanchez, Tri Ta, and David Tangipa). Previously, on May 23, this bad bill passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee (voting yes were all the Democrats + Republicans Diane Dixon and David Tangipa; no vote recorded for Republicans Kate Sanchez and Tri Ta). Earlier, on March 12, this bad bill passed the Assembly Education Committee (voting yes was nearly every Democrat + Republicans Josh Hoover of east Sacramento County and Leticia Castillo of west Riverside County; Democrat Robert Garcia of Rancho Cucamonga did not vote).
AB 715 authored by Democrat Party Assemblyman Rick Zbur, a homosexual activist, would order that K-12 government schools “shall not adopt or approve adopt, approve, or allow the use of any textbook, instructional material, supplemental instructional material, or curriculum for classroom instruction if the use of the textbook, instructional material, supplemental instructional material, or curriculum would subject a pupil to unlawful discrimination pursuant to Section 220.”
Deceptively sold as combating antisemitism, this bad bill (a product of the so-called “Diversity Caucus”) is based on Education Code, Section 220, which includes and promotes “gender, gender identity, gender expression … sexual orientation.” Let no one be deceived — “LGBTQIA+” activists want AB 715 to sexually indoctrinate children all the more. For AB 715 prohibiting any material that “would subject a pupil to unlawful discrimination” could result in purging K-12 government schools of any teaching or depiction of man-woman marriage, boys growing up to be men, girls growing up to be women, the Christian foundation of Thanksgiving and of the United States of America, and more. At its core, AB 715 would erase history and science for millions of California children.
AB 715 has been sent to the State Senate after its May 29 passage on the Assembly floor (voting yes were 51 Democrats + 17 Republicans: Juan Alanis, Leticia Castillo, Laurie Davies, Carl DeMaio, Diane Dixon, Stan Ellis, Heath Flora, James Gallagher, Jeff Gonzalez, Heather Hadwick, Josh Hoover, Tom Lackey, Alexandra Macedo, Joe Patterson, Kate Sanchez, Tri Ta, Greg Wallis; abstaining were Republicans Phillip Chen and David Tangipa). Speaking in favor of AB 715 on the Assembly floor (see the video 1:50:16 to 2:18:30).were 9 Democrats (including homosexual activists Rick Zbur and Corey Jackson) + Republican Jeff Gonzalez, who foolishly claimed the bill was fulfilling Jesus Christ’s command “that we love our neighbor.”
PROBLEM #2: The first week of the month — June 2 through 6 — are deadline Assembly floor sessions, where MORE BAD BILLS that “Republicans” will be tempted to support will come up for votes. So please CALL the Republicans to say it’s UNACCEPTABLE for them to support these anti-family bills!
EMERGENCY ALERT: Tell the Republicans to oppose anti-family, “LGBTQIA+” bills coming up for votes
WHAT TO SAY: Tell Republicans, “I want you to stand and speak against the anti-family ‘LGBTQIA+” agenda bills! You need to expose and oppose AB 727 (pushing a pro-transsexuality group upon children), AB 908 (pushing more “LGBT” curriculum upon kids), AB 932 (pushing transsexuality in school and community sports programs), AB 1084 (cutting out parents from children’s so-called “sex changes”), and AB 1487 (taxpayer funding of transsexual “outreach” to ruin more children).”
PRIORITY CALL:Use this tool to find and call your own California state assemblymember
CALL UP TO 19 ASSEMBLY REPUBLICANS
Juan Alanis 916-319-2022 and 209-521-2201 Leticia Castillo 916-319-2058 and 951-371-6860 Phillip Chen 916-319-2059 and 714-529-5502 Laurie Davies 916-319-2074 and 760-433-7400 and 949-240-7300 Carl DeMaio 916-319-2075 and 858-566-7538 Diane Dixon 916-319-2072 and 949-798-7221 Stan Ellis 916-319-2032 and 661-395-2995 Heath Flora 916-319-2009 and 209-599-2112 James Gallagher 916-319-2003 and 530-895-4217 and 530-671-0303 Jeff Gonzalez 916-319-2036 and 760-347-2360 and 760-355-8656 Heather Hadwick 916-319-2001 and 530-223-6300 and 530-265-0601 Josh Hoover 916-319-2007 and 916-294-9774 Tom Lackey 916-319-2034 and 661-267-7636 and 760-539-1341 Alexandra Macedo 916-319-2033 and 559-636-3440 Joe Patterson 916-319-2005 and 916-435-0501 Kate Sanchez 916-319-2071 and 949-459-7170 and 951-696-0002 Tri Ta 916-319-2070 and 714-379-0970 David Tangipa 916-319-2008 and 559-446-2029 Greg Wallis 916-319-2047 and 760-346-6342
5 ANTI-FAMILY, ‘LGBTQIA+’ BILLS SET FOR ASSEMBLY FLOOR VOTES JUNE 2-6
AB 727 by Democrat Party Assemblyman Mark Gonzalez + 4 other Democrats would promote transsexuality to millions of schoolchildren by requiring a pro-transsexuality suicide hotline number to be imprinted upon all student ID cards in grades 7-12, including at private schools. According to AB 727, a suicide hotline for “sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.” This would also be a mandate upon private religious schools that issue student ID cards.
AB 908 by Democrat Party Assemblyman Jose Solache would require an annual compliance review of the current law requiring “social sciences to include a study of the role and contributions of, among others, people of all genders, Latino Americans, LGBTQ+ Americans, and members of other ethnic, cultural, religious, and socioeconomic status groups.” The goal of this bad bill is to ensure pro-“LGBT+” curriculum is taught to children in all K-12 government school districts.
AB 932 by Democrat Party Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin prohibits “gender” discrimination in city and county sports programs. In the California statutes, “gender” means subjective “gender identity” and “gender expression.” As such, this bill would still promote transsexuality over people’s consciences, would invade girls’ sports in particular, and opens the door to lawsuits against dissenters. In sum, the amended AB 932 tells public schools and city/county/special district sports facilities that biological males must be permitted to play on females’ teams and use females’ locker rooms and restrooms, and vice versa — or risk a private party lawsuit that aims to penalize you with financial damages. As the latest Legislative Counsel’s Digest describes, AB 932 would prohibit “a city, county, city and county, special district, school district, county office of education, or charter school from discriminating against a person on the basis of sex or gender in the operation, conduct, or administration of community youth athletics programs or interscholastic athletic programs, or in the allocation of parks and recreation facilities and resources or school and recreation facilities and resources that support or enable these programs.”
AB 1084 by Democrat Party Assemblyman Rick Zbur + other “LGBTQ Caucus” members would fast-track legal changes to minors’ “genders.” The new “gender identifier” will be granted unless parents file a written objection “showing good cause” within 6 weeks of the original petition being filed – and courts have up to 30 days to notify them. This does not give adequate time for parents to find out, get an attorney, and file a well-writtten objection “showing good cause” why the new “gender identifier” should not be granted.
AB 1487 by Democrat Party Assemblywoman Dawn Addis proposes to rename the State Dept. of Public Health’s current “Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, and Intersex Wellness and Equity Fund” as “the Two-Spirit, Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, and Intersex (2TGI) Wellness and Equity Fund” to receive taxpayer-funded appropriations to fund “TGI-serving organizations” to get to “asylees and immigrants” and “transitional-age 2TGI youth” (TGI = “transgender, transsexual, gender-diverse, and intersex”).
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? The Bible, Psalm 94:16
Resolution coauthors on May 19 included Republicans Phillip Chen, Laurie Davies, Carl DeMaio, Josh Hoover, Tom Lackey, Tri Ta, David Tangipa, and Greg Wallis
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