Saturday, August 26, 2023, 9:21 am | Randy Thomasson
Will some downright devilish bills die this year — because of Gavin Newsom himself?
I’m asking the question because California’s uberliberal Democrat governor IS running for president (he’s waiting for the White House Occupant to drop out).
And, while relying on Americans’ short-term political memories, Newsom doesn’t want his opponents to seize upon one or more new radically-bad bills that he’s signed.
This might explain why Newsom’s Department of Finance is openly opposing several truly awful bills in the Legislature’s fiscal committees. And as a result, the Senate’s and Assembly’s Appropriations committees have sent a raft of radical Democrat bills that cost money to the “suspense file,” where these bills might quietly die and not go to Newsom.
These bills are on “suspense” because they cost money the State does not have (remember the Newsom administration has caused a $31.5 BILLION state budget deficit by driving some of the wealthiest Californians out of state).
Among the costly bills placed on “suspense” since the Legislature’s Aug. 14 return:
AB 5 forcing public-school employees into “LGBTQ cultural competency training”
AB 443 discriminating against moral/religious police officers and officer candidates
AB 659 pushing harmful Gardasil jabs upon junior highers and college students
AB 576 funding all Medi-Cal chemical abortions (on “suspense” since July 10)
AB 1078 taking away local control of school boards to make curriculum decisions
SB 58 promoting a raft of “hallucinogenic substances” as “recreational drugs”
SB 274 eliminating suspensions/expulsions of willfully defiant teens (grades 9-12)
SB 345 making California even more pro-abortion and pro-“sex changes” than ever
SB 407 punishing moral foster parents who don’t support “LGBTQIA+”
SB 541 requiring “internal and external condoms” be available in grades 9-12
SB 596 empowering liberal school boards to arrest “disorderly” parents at meetings
SB 729 requiring insurance to pay for artificial insemination of “gays” and “trans”
SB 760 forcing government schools, grades 1-12, to have an “all-gender restroom”
Now, any of these bills could escape committee by the approaching Sept. 1 deadline if the Appropriations Committee chairs in the Senate or Assembly want to dare Newsom to sign them. We won’t know after that day.
Yet it’s clear to me that Newsom’s huge budget shortfall and the fact that he’s running for president have created a “perfect storm” for some anti-family bills with price tags to fail.
That they may successfully do evil with both hands— The prince asks for gifts, The judge seeks a bribe, And the great man utters his evil desire; So they scheme together. The Bible (Micah 7:3)
Saturday, August 12, 2023, 5:20 pm | Randy Thomasson
SCROLL DOWN FOR ACTION STEPS
AUGUST 21, 2023 UPDATE: This is a war of attrition. Because some of the Democrat state senators know AB 957 is still a bad bill, your anonymous, afterhours voicemail messages are strategic and can wear this bill down and prevent a floor vote. The California State Senate’s next opportunity is Thursday, August 24 at 9am.
If you support parental rights and religious freedom and know the unnatural “trans” agenda is hurting children, please take renewed action by following the directions below in our previous alert. Thank you for caring!
The very immoral, anti-parent bill, AB 957, on the floor of the California State Senate, CAN be defeated with your help this weekend. Because when the Senate returns the afternoon of Monday, August 14, you don’t want them voting on it!
As written, AB 957 is a very bad bill instructing family court judges to disfavor parents who have moral objections to their child “transitioning,” and don’t “affirm.” Bottom line, support the biological facts and get your children taken from you!
Grasp that even the Democrat-run Legislative Counsel’s Office has described AB 957 as: “This bill, for purposes of this provision, would include a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity or gender expression as part of the health, safety, and welfare of the child.”
So, as amended July 3, this radically-bad bill continues to require “a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity or gender expression.” Don’t “affirm” your own child’s transsexual delusion — don’t get custody! This is about as anti-parent as it gets.
The Democrat author of AB 957, Lori Wilson (shown above; see her Solano County district) claims her anti-parent, anti-free-speech, anti-religious-freedom, bill is “essential” because all “trans” children need to be “affirmed.” And despite Wilson publicly claiming to be a “Christian,” she ignores what the Bible says about transsexuality being a sin.
What’s the best strategy to stop AB 957 on the floor of the California Senate?
STEP 1: Call your own state senator — at both the district and Capitol offices — and identify yourself, on Monday, August 14, from 9am to 2pm (the Senate floor session begins at 2pm). Leave your message with a staffer or via voicemail. Say something like, “I’m calling to urge Senator ________ to oppose AB 957. The amended bill fails to protect religious parents and violates Senate Judiciary Committee members’ demand for religious accommodation. Don’t punish otherwise good parents by taking away their kids. Oppose the amended AB 957!”
STEP 2: Call the 4 Democrat state senators who demanded religious accommodation in AB 957 in the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 13. When you call anonymously and after-hours (7pm-8am and all weekend), quote their own words back to them and call them a liar if they don’t stand up and oppose this anti-parent bill.
Tell them, “In committee, you passed AB 957 on the condition that it be amended to accommodate religious parents. Well, the latest amendments don’t protect them at all. You need to stand up to oppose this bad bill. If you don’t, you lied about it in committee!”
The below quotes are from the June 13 California Senate Judiciary Committee hearing video (start with Senator Allen’s comments at 1:18:48) | transcript (see end of page)
Senator Ben Allen 916-651-4024 | 310-318-6994: “I certainly want to make sure that just because someone is religious, for example, and there’s nothing that they do as a parent that would impact the health and welfare and mental well-being of the child — they accept the child’s decisions but they struggle with it themselves – I would certainly want to make sure that person wasn’t dinged under a custody dispute in the context of this bill…I would like the author and the chair to spend some time working together on tightening up some of the language so that we can make sure that a parent — for whom we have no concern about impacting the mental health of the child, but who may have a personal, perhaps a religious, conflict with gender fluidity — wouldn’t be dinged if we don’t have a concern about their ability to be a good parent to that child.”
Senator Anna Caballero916-651-4014 | 559-264-3070: “I want to encourage you to continue the discussion, and I reserve the right not to support it on the floor if it doesn’t change — ’cause I think there’s challenges with exactly what does it mean. And I don’t think we want to send something to the court that causes confusion or wrong decisions.”
Senator Angelique Ashby 916-651-4008 | 916-651-1529: “I’m going to support you today, Assemblywoman Wilson, but I’m going to join my colleagues in asking you to work with Senator Umberg as Judiciary Chair on adding some clarifying language.”
Senator Tom Umberg (Judiciary Committee Chair) 916-651-4034 | 714-558-3785: “We will continue to work to make sure that the bill, as interpreted by the court, will be done in a way that is consistent with your view and our view of public policy…We will continue to work to make sure that — Senator Allen’s point — that if you have a parent who — perhaps he has a religious belief that is not consistent with someone wishing to transition but is unconditionally loving and tolerant, that that doesn’t preclude that parent having custodial rights. Is that your understanding also?”
STEP 3: Call anonymously 7pm to 8am and all weekend to the deciding-vote Democrats. In your afterhours voicemails, tell them, “I’m calling to urge you to oppose AB 957. The amended bill fails to protect religious parents and violates Senate Judiciary Committee members’ demand for religious accommodation. Don’t punish otherwise good parents by taking away their kids. Oppose the amended AB 957!”
Leave strategic, anonymous, afterhours voicemails for up to 21 of them:
Ben Allen 916-651-4024 | 310-318-6994
Marie Alvarado-Gil 916-651-4004 | 916-933-8680
Bob Archuleta 916-651-4030 | 562-406-1001
Angelique Ashby 916-651-4008 | 916-651-1529
Catherine Blakespear 916-651-4038 | 760-642-0809
Anna Caballero 916-651-4014 | 559-264-3070
Bill Dodd 916-651-4003 | 707-224-1990
María Elena Durazo 916-651-4026 | 213-483-9300
Steve Glazer 916-651-4007 | 925-754-1461
Lena Gonzalez 916-651-4033 | 323-277-4560
Melissa Hurtado 916-651-4016 | 661-395-2620
Monique Limón 916-651-4019 | 805-988-1940
Dave Min 916-651-4037 | 949-223-5472
Steve Padilla 916-651-4018 | 760-335-3442
Anthony Portantino 916-651-4025 | 818-409-0400
Richard Roth 916-651-4031 | 951-680-6750
Susan Rubio 916-651-4022 | 909-469-1110
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas 916-651-4028 | 213-745-6656
Henry Stern 916-651-4027 | 818-876-3352
Tom Umberg 916-651-4034 | 714-558-3785
Aisha Wahab 916-651-4410 | 510-794-3900
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” The Bible, Ephesians 6:1-3
Thursday, August 3, 2023, 1:27 pm | Randy Thomasson
Are you tired of hearing squalling, screaming kids throwing tantrums?
Temper tantrums that happen more than once are not “natural” or a “phase.” Now, temper tantrums persist because of parents who refuse to take authority and discipline their children for rebellion.
The Word of God in Proverbs 13:24 tells us: He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.
The problem is worldly parents not taking authority over their children. You can’t reason with a young child. But temporarily pain for blatant rebellion trains younger children to have self-control and respect for authority.
As renowned Christian child psychology expert Dr. James Dobson has written in his 1978 classic, The Strong-Willed Child, from which his child disciplining tips have been adapted into the 1986 pocketbook, Temper Your Child’s Tantrums:
“Corporal punishment in the hands of a loving parent…is a teaching tool by which harmful behavior is inhibited.”
“A spanking is to be reserved for use in response to willful defiance, whenever it occurs.”
“If punishment doesn’t influence human behavior, then why is the issuance of speeding tickets by police so effective in controlling traffic on a busy street? Why, then, do homeowners rush to get their tax payments in the mail to avoid a penalty for being late? If punishment has no power, why does a well-deserved spanking often turn a sullen little troublemaker into a sweet and loving angel?”
“A child is fully capable of discerning whether his parent is conveying love or hatred. This is why the youngster who knows he deserves a spanking appears almost relieved when it finally comes. Rather than being insulted by the discipline, he understands its purpose and appreciates the control it gives him over his own impulses.”
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If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. The Bible, Hebrews 12:7-11
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