Tuesday, August 30, 2022, 10:33 am | Randy Thomasson
This is your final legislative alert as the California State Legislature crashes to a close at the end of Wednesday, August 31. Please call your assemblymember today!
On Monday, August 29, the Democrat-controlled State Senate passed AB 2223 legalizing infanticide and passed AB 2098 punishing good doctors who tell the truth about Covid. Also Monday, the Democrat-controlled State Assembly passed SB 1419 prohibiting parents from viewing all of their children’s health records.
See our August 29 floor alerts, delivered to 58 of 80 assemblymembers: AB 2098 (on Assembly floor) | AB 2223 (on Assembly floor) | SB 1419 (passed Assembly on Monday).
There is still a chance to defeat the infanticide and punish-good-doctors bills on the Assembly floor. But you must threaten Republican legislators to repent of their unloving silence (which resulted in SB 1419 passing Monday on a second attempt — see more).
If you’re seeing this on Tuesday, August 30, please drop everything and call your own California state assemblymember:
If your own assemblymember is a Republican, you must be very tough — because they don’t want to speak (this whole month, hundreds of bad Democrat bills, on moral, social, even fiscal issues, have passed without a single Republican standing and speaking to expose the harm). Leave a message for your Republican legislator, such as. “You need to stand and speak against AB 2098 punishing good doctors and AB 2223 legalizing infanticide. If you refuse to stand and speak, you’ll lose my support.”
If your own assemblymember is a Democrat, leave a message for him or her, saying: “Oppose AB 2098, which is an unfair, unconstitutional bill punishing good doctors who have been proven correct — Covid vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission. Also oppose AB 2223, which legalizes infanticide by prohibiting law enforcement from investigating infant deaths. I will be watching your votes.”
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. Romans 12:9
If you live in the new districts in which these five pro-homosexual “marriage” Republicans are running, it’s your decision whether to keep supporting them. But consider this:
2. These five Republicans’ pro-perversity votes are symptomatic of slavish fear of the Tyrannical Left, instead of respectful fear of God or love for impressionable children. To flip from being pro-man-woman-marriage and pro-traditional-family in an election year, in the general election cycle where they might be beaten, is indicative of fear, not moral principle (for how can a principle be moral if it violates the commands of Holy God?). Don’t we need constitutional fighters, who will do what’s right under pressure, not cave and sell-out?
3. Homosexual “marriage” is a harmful role model for impressionable children. Because not only are most male homosexual relationships “open,” their behavior has very high rates of sexually-transmitted diseases. And children are being roped into this, by the government schools or other strangers. What’s more, state schools aim to “groom” children not just into homosexual behavior, but also into cross-dressing and “sex changes.” Most of all, promoting homosexual “marriage” all the more rapidly erodes the difference between Right and Wrong on every moral issue. With fewer and fewer moral absolutes, our culture becomes exponentially more confused, divided, and dangerous.
4. This is not the first time three of these five Republicans have voted very wrong:
Also in 2017, David Valadao abstained on this pro-family amendment that would have banned taxpayer-funded, military “sex changes.” And in January 2021, Valadao was the only California U.S. House Republican to vote “yes” to impeach former president Donald Trump (for the second time).
In 2018, as a California state assemblyman, Jay Obernolte voted “yes” on AB 2439 to establish an “official” State of California “LGBTQ Veterans Memorial.” Then, in 2019, Obernolte voted “yes” on AB 711 to force schools to retroactively falsify a student’s “sex” on former student records. That same year, Obernolte abstained on ACR 99, a Democrat resolution blaming pastors and religious leaders for “LGBTQIA+” suicides. In 2020, Obernolte’s liberal positions were exposed by his conservative opponent, Tim Donnelly.
Back in 1994, Ken Calvert was publicly exposed for having sex in his car with a known prostitute. Still, in light of Calvert’s strong pro-family record since then, I was surprised he caved to the “homosexual marriage” agenda this month.
I am most surprised by Mike Garcia’s capitulation to darkness. Garcia votes pro-life on abortion and calls himself a Christian. And in 2021, he admirably voted against putting homosexuality and transsexuality into federal employment and housing law, stating “equality that comes at the expense of or as a detriment to other free citizens is contrary to American ideals.” Yet now, succumbing in fear to “LGBTQIA+” activists is Garcia’s inexplicable, head-shaking act.
So whether you live in the new District 22 from Hanford to Bakersfield (where David Valadao is running), or in the new District 48 from Murrieta to Santee, then south to the Mexican border (where Darrell Issa is running), or in the new District 23 which includes Ridgecrest, California City, Barstow, Baker, Victorville, Big Bear City, and Twentynine Palms (where Jay Obernolte is running), or in the new District 41 from Corona to Indio (where Ken Calvert is running), or in the new District 27 which includes Santa Clara, Palmdale, and Lancaster (where Mike Garcia is running), now you are more informed and the decision is yours. See the new California congressional district map
“Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them…” Moses’ father-in-law Jethro in Exodus 18:21
“When Christians face two clearly immoral options, we cannot rationalize a vote for immorality or injustice just because we deem the alternative to be worse,” Moore said. “The Bible tells us we will be held accountable not only for the evil deeds we do but also when we ‘give approval to those who practice them,’ (Romans 1:32). “Russell Moore, “Should Christians Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils?”
Today, Californians and Americans who want their God-given liberties and constitutional rights restored have much to learn from our U.S. founding fathers.
They knew their free-will liberties came directly from God’s Word, and that good government faithfully recognized and protected these rights.
They recognized evil government as infringing upon their God-given rights, such as “taxation without representation” and numerous other thieving and dehumanizing acts.
And they knew success requires hard work and that freedom isn’t free, so they pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor in launching the Revolutionary War for our sakes.
Here in 2022, when we have more tyrannical government than our founding fathers could imagine, it’s time to be a patriot who sacrificially fights the good fight.
This election season is your opportunity to generate more good votes for good government. Please think of what you can do online, in your neighborhood, your workplace, and your church congregation. It’s time to fight for our rights and our families!