California Democrats this week blocked a hearing for a bill that would require schools to inform parents if their children begin using different pronouns, claiming debate over the bill would “provide a forum for increasingly hateful rhetoric.”
Assembly Education Committee chair Al Muratsuchi (D.) on Monday confirmed that the committee will not take up Assembly Bill 1314, which would have required teachers and administrators to inform parents within three days if their children asked to be treated as a member of the opposite sex.
“I will not be setting AB 1314 for a hearing, not only because the bill is proposing bad policy, but also because a hearing would potentially provide a forum for increasingly hateful rhetoric targeting LGBTQ youth,” the assemblyman said. Without debate, the bill cannot get a vote unless a legislative majority asks for one—a highly improbable event in the Democratic supermajority.
In a joint statement with the state legislature’s LGBTQ Caucus, Muratsuchi said he was blocking the bill to ensure “gender identity conversations between parents and their children” occur “in a safe and private space.”
Muratsuchi’s claim comes as state Democrats work to allow children to get sex change procedures without any parental consent. Last year, the legislature passed a law to make California a “haven” for youth around the country who want medical sex changes. This session, Democrats are pushing a bill that would let schools check minors into group homes without parental knowledge if the students claim their parents don’t support their identify. Other states, including Oregon and Colorado, have instituted similar policies.
AB 1314 would have countered guidance from the California Department of Education, which pushed teachers to keep children’s “gender identities” secret after following the passage of a 2013 law that allows students to play on sports teams and use restrooms based on their preferred “gender identity….”
Full story at Free Beacon
Democrats are present-day communists. You have to be sick in the head to support the policies that Democrats support.
Not true. And not nice to use the moniker you used.
It is true. Every day there is more evidence that Democrats are totalitarian. This story is a perfect example: Democrats are prohibiting a bill to advance or even be debated because the elites don’t agree with it. What is this “evil” bill? Simply a requirement that parents, who are the primary educators of their children, be informed by a school about “gender transitioning” or use of different pronouns for their own children. What’s not to like about that? Well, if you are a Democrat totalitarian who wants to shove a transgender agenda down society’s throat, you won’t like information being given to parents that would obstruct your plans to corrupt children.
So much of what Democrats support defies rationality.
YFC, if you are a Democrat, you are supporting evil and irrationality.
There is a war for the soul of America going on. If you’re offended by conservative resistance to the Left, go sit down.
I;m not sure why comments like these are not violations of CCD’s posting policies. Saying wicked things about fellow posters, followed by incitements to violence and war should be violations, if they are not. The Congress and the Courts are looking at the responsibilities of web site owners to take responsibility for what is posted on their platforms. You might want to start following the Dominion v Fox defamation lawsuit. If they can make Murdoch pay up, they can surely make CCD pay up.
Ah, YFC feels that the tide is turning in America away from gayness and away from liberalism. And he wants to shut down the discussion.
Most of the Saints weren’t “Nice”.
Father Higgins are you among those who want to incite us to civil war and the use of force to enforce Christian morality upon the American people? Because that’s what this thread is about.
YFC, yes I will take an enforced Christian morality over your enforced bathhouse morality.
Why are they still hiding the Nashville transgender shooter’s manifesto? It’s been over two weeks. Leftist media and Dems are colluding to hide the truth about trannies being mentally ill, unstable, and deranged as they try to push our nation towards destruction.
I think the reason is because they don’t want to fulfill the mission of the shooter. They don’t generally publish manifestos because they think getting attention these kinds of manifestos are exactly what the shooter wanted. this is true for this person and all shooters.
I’m sure the fact that the shooter’s manifesto is reported to have been ideologically in support of the left and vociferously anti-Trump has nothing to do with the decision to withhold it. Oh, and the fact that the shooter was transgender.
If a member of the Proud Boys had shot up a school (never going to happen) and had written a manifesto, the police would have released it immediately.
Withholding the manifesto is all about damage control in support of the liberal narrative about guns.
Exactly. It doesn’t fit the narrative. Moreover, I have heard some major news sources are spinning this as the fault of Christians for driving this transgender to violence. So now the victims are the perpetrators. About as backward as everything else in the transgender mindset.
The so called manifesto was a bunch of rambling writing that showed no clear motive or agenda, no politics or social agenda..
The only thing that was found was that she idolized and studied others who had committed school shootings.
They may release it when they have finished going over it
I do not want to give a link because of the videos attached but you can google this.
Good question!
There are too many folks that are right of center for us not to inhabit the key states. We did not cross the Rubicon, the left has, and they intend to pursue a scorched earth policy. You either live at their throat or under their foot. So, you might as well live at their throat. Take California back from the left. It’s looking like it will have to be done by force.
Do not do anything by force. Please.
God forbids this.
Is pacifism a virtue?
The high schools in Contra Costa County, San Francisco County, and San Mateo County– and possibly many others– are hosting “Pride Proms” again, this year, for LGBTQ juniors and seniors. Not a good idea for kids. “Gay proms” for kids should be illegal.
“Muratsuchi’s claim comes as state Democrats work to allow children to get sex change procedures without any parental consent.” This is the nub of the matter. The State in its imperious wisdom is the true raiser of children, not the parents. It is a return to Nazi Germany or Chairman Mao’s Red Guard. It truly is a totalitarian encroachment upon the family that is happening here, and as the Democrats are spearheading this, we can only conclude this is their desire — to undermine the family. Anyone happy with this has checked their Catholic credentials at the door.
My own opinion as I have analyzed the rapid endorsement of gay and transgender ideologies by liberals and liberal Catholics is that it is a clear sign of the truth that without grace Catholics — and all people — are prone to evil and falsehood. When I see a prominent Catholic support trans and gay ideologies, and I consider what else that person supports or opposes or does with his or her life, I discern a pattern: unfaithful Catholics will tend to oppose Catholic teaching and support ideologies that contradict Catholic Faith, whereas faithful Catholics will almost always support Catholic teaching and staunchly oppose whatever conflicts with it. Catholics who are in mortal sin do not enjoy the benefits of sanctifying grace. We’re seeing that truth play out in our country as high-level people who were baptized Catholic support numerous and egregious evils that no true, faithful Catholic would ever support.
So this is the situation. Democrats in the California State Assembly want to keep children from talking to their parents about intimate personal and sexual ideas and instead want them to talk to someone hired by the school district.
This is how we get into a HUGE child sexual assault situation.
Granted, the man in the picture doesn’t look like an adult sex offender does he? Well, since we don’t know what all of them look like it’s rather an open ended question.
I’ve never been to a bathhouse let alone enforcing some imaginary bathhouse morality.
The bathhouse morality that I was referring is the same one that spread AIDS like wildfire; even that couldn’t convince your syndicate not to indulge in their perversions. If not Christian morality, which one do you want enforced? I can assure you a Muslim one wouldn’t tolerate your syndicate for more than a minute.
This was a response to bohemond above not to Father Higgins. I’m not sure how it ended up here.
The morality is not imaginary for the police officers and sanitation workers who have to clear out and clean out the bath houses.
Bathhouses in the US are private and aren’t cleaned by sanitation workers or cleared out by police.
There are popular public bath houses in places like Turkey. No idea whether they are cleaned by municipal authorities. I’ve never been to those either but I think my sister went with her husband and maybe even their son.
Lastly, thank you “tried”. A number of people have said the thumbs buttons don’t work well.
I tried to give YFC a thumbs up for never having been to a bathhouse but the thumbs did not work.
I tried a thumbs down on O Really just to see and that did not work.
Looking into the buttons to see what’s up.
That is not at all what the article says.
Everyone wants what is best for these kids. People’s opinions on what is best for these kids vary. Your legislators feel that the language that will be used by people on one side will be so damaging to people with this condition that a public discussion cannot be held.
That should give you pause.
As a priest, I am sure you are very aware of the kind of abuse that goes on not just in educational institutions but in families.
It is immature to vilify people who have a different opinion, but the main issue is that everyone is being treated as if they are cut from the same cloth, as usual.
There are kids, whether trans or not, who are not physically, emotionally, psychological and/or spiritually safe in their own homes.
There are others who are and who are supported by their parents no matter what.
This probably is not something that should be legislated at a state level.
It is properly done by people who actually know the people involved.
It is Divine Mercy Sunday and Divine Mercy is what we have to offer to everyone.
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/you-can-spread-divine-mercy-too
I don’t believe Faustina’s visions were authentic. I think she hallucinated. Unfortunately, we’re stuck with this divine mercy Sunday taking precedence over the Gospel reading about St. Thomas the Apostle. Faustiniacs bother me.
This comment from “no” is most unfortunate and most uniformed, sadly. The Gospel about the Doubting Thomas is not in any way eclipsed by Divine Mercy: the Gospel demonstrates it. You better read that Gospel again “no”. Perhaps God will have mercy on your soul.
It is strange that the two devotions that someone will object to here are Divine Mercy and Consecration to the Immaculate Heart. If you understand the devotions, you understand why.
Just do them. Protect your soul and help save others.