Several thousand feet above San Diego, hikers heed the warning. Do not disturb the golden eagles nesting in the granite crags of El Cajon Mountain. Federal and state laws shelter the majestic fauna and buckbrush flowers that paint the mountainside blue each spring.
Yet 15 miles away, children are not so well-protected by the state. Kelly Wade learned that lesson the hard way. She directs Dayspring Christian Learning Center in a working-class neighborhood of El Cajon, a city of 105,000 people in the nation’s fifth-most populous county.
In December, the California Department of Social Services pulled the plug on funding meals for the 88 kids in Wade’s care. The department said Dayspring’s Biblical beliefs ran afoul of state standards for sexual orientation and gender identity.
Dayspring stands to lose more than $40,000 a year in funds spent directly on providing children two daily meals and a snack. The funding makes up the lion’s share of the preschool’s $65,000 annual food budget.
“If the government can tell a church or church school to change its views on human sexuality, they can tell a religious organization to do anything,” said Dean Broyles, president of the National Center for Law and Policy. The center, joined by Advocates for Faith and Freedom, filed a March lawsuit urging California to restore the school’s funding from a federal food program.
Wade’s husband, Ronald, pastors the Church of Compassion, which operates Dayspring. Broyles represents the church, the school, and the Wades. “Our church has been very supportive,” Wade said. “That’s why my husband and I feel it’s so important to take this stand. Our congregation is praying for us, and so are other community churches.”
Wade and Broyles said students’ parents, including some parents who identify as LGBT, support Dayspring.
The crux of the case centers on an April 2022 revision by California’s Department of Social Services (CDSS). Prior to 2022, the state’s education department administered funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Child and Adult Care Food Program. According to the lawsuit, CDSS assumed responsibility for the program and added language to a civil rights statement to include gender identity and sexual orientation. The added language mirrored an executive order signed by President Joe Biden on his first day in office.
Biden’s order, and the revised California language, followed a 2020 Supreme Court decision that reinterpreted protections against sex discrimination in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sexual orientation of any kind, including shifting gender identity.
In an October letter, CDSS program leader Jessie Rosales said Dayspring’s application for continued meal funding violated state law. If the school wanted to rejoin the program, Rosales said it would have to “cease requiring individuals to sign or abide by the staff handbook, or any other employment policy, which specifically disallows lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lifestyles as a condition of employment.”
Dayspring’s 21-page handbook directs employees to model Christ. It includes 16 behaviors, including homosexuality, that the school says do not model Christ.
Church of Compassion appealed the state’s denial, but an administrative law judge sided with California.
After a Tampa, Fla., religious school faced the loss of federal meal funding in August, the Biden administration issued new guidance that religious schools, like Dayspring, are exempt from sex discrimination law interpretations that conflict with their religious tenets.
“On the facts and the law, we should win this case 10 times out of 10,” Broyles said….
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More proof that Democrats are evil. They will use government power to advance the evil of LGBT.
To be fair, the school is not being forced to accept LGBT; it’s just that the benefits of a government program are being made contingent upon accepting LGBT.
The school is as religiously free to do what it wants as it ever was.
But this shows the possible drawbacks of government welfare programs when Democrats are in charge of the purse strings. Evil Democrats make government assistance contingent upon kowtowing to the evil rainbow flag. Democrats do that with foreign aid to developing nations too.
If you vote for Democrats, you vote for evil in government.
Sorry to tell you, but there are some Republicans who are just as bad too. I have heard some Republican politicians in the past say that they would go to a “same-sex” wedding if it were a relative. I do not vote for such people either.
Did not veterans returning from World War II use federal money in the form of scholarships or grants to pay for college educations at Catholic universities without those universities being required to suspend Catholic teachiings ?
Biden and Newsom are the new Pharisees who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. They ignore the weightier matters of faith, justice and fairness for the sake of state standards for sexual orientation and gender identity, that is, the new laws of Mt. Sacramento written in immoral filth by immoral filth. Blind guides, do you think you can escape damnation?
Conform to the sexual revolution or no food for your children!
Even your Katholic leaders (Biden and Newsom) insist upon this.
Maybe Cardinal McElroy will speak up on your behalf.
But, then again, why would he help the Church of Compassion?
I think that all LGBT issues should be properly listed, as before the 1970s, as medical abnormalities and mental disorders, in all psychiatric and medical books. Those with the LGBT condition, should be eligible to receive some government-funded assistance, if needed– for special medical/psychiatric treatment and care, under the “Disabilities” section. LGBTs who become violent in demanding their so-called “rights,” and commit violent acts and crimes, are all also psychiatric cases– indicative of the extremely abnormal LGBT disorder. To be “LGBT” should NOT be viewed as “normal,” or a so-called “sexual preference,” it is a definite psychiatric/medical disorder. Gay “marriage” should be legally abolished, and adoption of children by LGBTs should be illegal. Pervert sex acts should also be illegal, greatly discouraging the public (especially the young) — but penalties should not be too extreme. LGBT persons should be treated with respect and kindness, like all other human beings. Those are my views. Since the 1970s, many in our country– even many lawmakers, clergy and medical professionals– have not had clear and realistic, normal adult thinking and action on these issues.
It would seem to me that people who wish to deny their biology and/or even mutilate their biology so as to pretend to change genders–these people suffer from some form of mental illness at worse or are simply highly susceptible to suggestion or grooming by evil adults whose work in causing one of these little ones to stumble merits the millstone. In the case of transgenderism, I agree that the Law should ban surgical procedures designed for sex-reassignment. The insanity of this movement warrants this drastic action. Another law ought to be on the books to prevent LBGT grooming by drag queens or anyone else. Children’s calculated sexualization is evil. Sadly, the moral degeneracy in this nation has reached so far that such a return to normalcy would require the equivalent to the parting to the Red Sea.
When I consider the damage pro-abort and /or LGBT politicians have done in this state, it is hard not to conclude there is a great moral turpitude in Sacramento and Washington. One cannot legislate to end this melancholy situation; only a religious awakening can do this, a difficult thing to comprehend given the intense hostility of the left to Christianity. Your post makes me wonder what laws can be passed and where which can make a dent in the LGBT juggernaut.
In the past, gifted Christian missionaries and religious leaders, Catholic and Protestant, have kindled– or re-kindled– religious faith, and have cleaned up moral degeneracy. The famous Cure D’Ars, St. John Vianney, worked wonders, in the little French village he was sent to! France was ravaged by the French Revolution, and the revolutionaries tried to annihilate all religious belief. Anyway, there are many wonderful cases, historically, in which a gifted religious leader helped save his people from the brink of disaster, and turned them back to God. America has a serious “culture war,” but I don’t know how God can work to turn things completely around. The sad thing is– if moral degeneracy in America leads to the point of total disaster, with our total social, religious, moral, and economic infrastructure collapsing– and riots, chaos and violence erupting everywhere… then, what? The churches of today, including ours– are often very poor at moral and religious leadership– very tragic! A time of great trial for us all! But Christ is with us, helping us in this tremendous battle. And He will somehow eventually triumph.
Well said!
This is a simple issue. The government has money to allocate to various programs. It comes with restrictions. If an organization wants to get some of the money it must abide by the government’s rules and regulations. I don’t think that any Catholic school should accept any funds for any program from the government for any reason. Let’s stop the woe-is-me stuff or the everyone hates Catholic stuff. Then, read the next to the last paragraph of the article. Biden signed an executive order exempting religious groups from the regulaltions. The headline is misleading.
How is the headline misleading? Biden did sign an executive order, but it clearly isn’t being enforced. They’re still persecuting this school. Sorry to say it folks, but even with these laws, there still exists violations of them.
Executive orders are not laws. And this appears to be a state program, not a federal one. State law controls.
You don’t understand. This is a very small childcare center, trying to offer very low rates for childcare, for families in need. They may go out of business, if they can’t get some extra government funding– which is from our tax dollars. Most childcare centers and preschools have to rely on some government funding, to keep their rates low, for parents. Why do we have a CORRUPT government, which fails to see to the needs of struggling families and children? Especially, in the case of a childcare center run by a church, that serves the community, and abides by good and decent Christian beliefs and family values. The selfishness of the corrupt “me”- generation– which has no thought nor care for the needs and protection of even innocent little children– is unthinkable. This same horrific “me”- generation would pass laws to rightfully ensure the safety of the public to drink clean water, and breath clean air, and clean up the environment. Yet, the safety and well-being of America’s little children, is totally meaningless, to these selfish people. Pres. Joe Biden, who will turn age 81 next Nov. 20th, is old enough to know that his policies are wrong– and that he has failed in his great responsibility, as President, to protect American children and families, from all immorality and evil.
The problem of dope-addiction has become so out-of-control, that San Francisco’s Mayor London Breed is now asking for federal funding and help. She says that the police dept. is understaffed. Drugs are being openly bought and sold on the streets, and dope addicts are taking dope openly, usually by injection– and then discarding the needles. Many of the dope addicts are chronically homeless youth. We need a strong Mayor and strong police force for SF, and a strong “no nonsense” program to clean up drugs for good.
SF needs conservatives to clean up the city. Democrats won’t do it. Democrat policies have caused the deterioration.
The problems you describe existed 50 years ago when I started working in SF. Nothing has changed except for getting worse. No government under any mayor is willing to do what is needed to clean up the mess. Taking drugs on the street is considered a First Amendment right. Living on the street in tents, etc. can’t be cleaned up unless the city has enough shelters for everyone – Boise court ruling. People who don’t want to go to a shelter can’t be forced to do so. The laws and the courts preclude the cities from doing what they know should be done. People with mental disorders should be put in institutions, but that is mostly against the law and the facilities don’t exist anyway. Reagan closed them. People who do drugs should be required to go to rehabilitation facilities as often as needed until they are clean, but that is against the law. Most of the blame for tearing our towns and cities apart can be put at our legislators’ feet. They make bad laws. The real problem is that there isn’t enough affordable housing for poor people. Why should anyone in this country be homeless?
Reagan closed them because lawyers were suing the government on behalf of some street people who did not want to go to institutions and nearly bankrupting the cities. Then the street people who got a lot of money mishandled it and were back on the streets again. A real catch twenty- two. Drug addicts often do not keep up the places in which they live and other people do not want that around them.
This is true. In 1967, Gov. Reagan signed the act which prevented a patient from being institutionalized against their will. It was thought that psychiatric patients would receive much better care in their own communities, closer to home. It was hoped that a statewide system of community mental health facilities would be built– but it never happened. There was much abuse and neglect in psychiatric hospitals, and forced incarceration of patients seemed unfair. Actually, I recall several cases of Catholic women, prominent in the community, who suffered with bad marriages and abusive husbands, but tried hard to fulfill their Marriage Vows– and they each broke down emotionally, and were taken to psychiatric facilities. It was very hard on their young children. When their husbands (some had stressful jobs and drinking problems) signed papers to have their wives taken to psychiatric facilities, that was very wrong, I thought, and didn’t solve anything. Anyway, the mentally ill who were no longer required to be hospitalized, went wild, with no support, and back home, they were a menace to their families. The year after Reagan signed that law, the crime rates began to go sky high in Calif. Many of the criminals repeated their crimes, and went in and out of the prison system. Dope addiction just made everything worse. Homelessness became a huge problem.
Many Democrat politicians are irresponsible, immoral and immature. San Francisco Democrat liberal-leftists have all made their own mess, and have been destroying our country, too, since the filthy 1960s era. It doesn’t take federal money to clean up the mess. It takes morality, decency, good values, hard work, and good leadership, that refuses to compromise, and refuses to listen to babyish screans of “First Amendment rights” of criminals and sick dope addicts. Mayor London Breed and her liberal-leftist predecessors have all been just terrible! A strong, “no nonsense” conservative backbone and action has been sorely needed, here, for many long decades! The dope addicts only have the “right” to be compassionately placed in psychiatric hospitals and drug rehab. centers– some, perhaps, for life. By contrast– many brand-new immigrants, even if poor, work hard, are church-goers, live in decent housing, never live a “worse than animals,” horrible, dope-addicted life on the city streets, never commit crimes, are good family members and good providers for their families, and contribute a lot to their local communities, in the Bay Area. Makes me sick!
Close the border! Build the wall!
I agree. But these immigrants are the legal ones. Including many Asian families of priests at church.
In order to pass effective laws regarding the “LGBT agenda,” the courts need something reliable to work with. In 1973, gay activists stormed the meeting in San Francisco of the American Psychiatric Association, issued death threats, and demanded that the professionals remove the LGBT disorders and sexual deviance definitions and abnormal LGBT sexual orientation and behaviors from their official “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual,” their source book which lists specific psychiatric/medical illnesses, disorders, and their diagnoses. The gay activists said that they were “born that way,” cannot be changed, and insisted, since that time, for their disorders to instead be medically/scientifically viewed as simply a “normal” “sexual alternative,” for anyone– not a medically diagnosable illness or disorder. They did not want to be “stigmatized” by society, with a psychiatric/medical disgnosis. They bullied the American Psychiatric Assoc. and issued death threats, until the Board of Trustees voted to declassify and remove their disorders from the “DSM” and other important medical source books. Psychiatrists and medical professionals were to no longer view and treat the LGBTs as being “abnormal,” “deviant,” or “sick.” Since that time, the medical and legal professions, and the courts, no longer have a scientific/medical definition and classification of the LGBT conditions as a sexual deviance or abnormal psychiatric disorder, to work with, scientifically and legally, to pass effective laws to restrain the dangerous LGBT sexual behaviors and propaganda. Non-normative sexualities and gender expressions are now officially seem as “normal,” alongside authentically normal heterosexuality. Gay “marriage” is now scandalously legal, and seen as falsely “equal” to normal, heterosexual marriage. Children are at risk, there is no longer any legal protection for them.
Just because a person is heterosexual does not mean they are normal.
You are wrong. Normalcy is meant, in this case, medically– to mean normalcy in the area of sexuality.
Prohibiting same sex marriage, describing LGBT people as disordered, and passing anti-LGBT laws do nothing to protect children. Children don’t need protection from LGBT people any more or any less than they need protection from straight people.
You forget that for almost 50 years now, psychiatrists and psychologists could have put homosexuality back into the DSM, which gets revised regularly and vigorously. They haven’t. Nor have the equivalent boards in dozens of other countries. This is because homosexuality is not a disorder. It is found naturally in humans and in most animal species.
So is blindness from birth. That doesn’t mean blindness is not a disorder.
You won’t win. That’s because homosexuality IS indeed a disorder.
Prohibiting the things you described would protect children because children would not be exposed to the evil social normalization of an undesirable, destructive lifestyle.
We have so much more of it now because it’s been normalized. Worse, it’s celebrated. Kids who would otherwise get looked over but who want to be celebrated and get sympathy and attention and easy access to college scholarships and jobs now identify as LGBT because society has made that a golden ticket to social benefits.
Something like 30% of Gen-Z kids now identify as LGBT. Tell me it’s not learned. Tell me it’s not a social contagion. You’ll be wrong.
These “thumbs” things don’t work! I just tried to give you a “thumbs up” for a great post– but it just wouldn’t work– and finally, my hand accidentally slipped– and hit the “thumbs down!” Made me so mad! So sorry! A great post! You know– YFC obviously seems to have no moral conscience. Many of the “LGBTs” seem to be extremely selfish and destructive, and only think of themselves. They don’t care about the tremendous need to protect innocent little children from all filth, immorality, sin and harm. Science tells us definitively that the homosexual disorder is only found in human beings. It is NOT found in animals. Animals reproduce naturally, it is necessary for the survival of their species. They have no disordered attractions to the same sex, because that would not produce offspring. In animals, sex is only for reproduction and survival of the species. No animal would ever be guided wrongfully by Nature’s instinct, to do unnatural, weird, disordered sex acts, or to do anything unnatural to itself and to the survival of its offspring and its species.
You should look up what members of the animal bonobos species do sexually. Some humans descend to that level of animality.
You obviously never had two male dogs.
Most of that is bi-sexuality.
There is no such thing as a “bisexual” animal. Animals are guided by Nature’s instinct to mate to have offspring, for the survival of the species. Animals have no reason for their natural instinct to guide them wrongly, to perform useless, bizarre, disordered mating acts.
Oh, I forgot. You are right, there have been scientific studies and observations among sheep, of the rare occurence of rams exhibiting courtship and mating behaviors with other rams, during mating season– instead of seeking ewes. In many of these cases, the rams were actually bisexual. But scientists have never fully understood the causes of this rare behavior. Scientists state that in these rare cases of animals (mammals) exhibiting same sex behavior, the behavior is not necessarily sexual– it may have more to do with courtship, pair bonding, affection, or parenting. Scientists do not know for sure, what causes this rare occurence.
I looked up the survey and it is 20% of Gen Z identify as lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, or something other than heterosexual. It is not to me a very good survey. It was a Gallop poll not a scientific survey. All surveys need replication.
All respondents were over 18. It was a telephone poll.
About two-thirds of LGBTQ members of Gen Z and 62% of LGBTQ millennials identified as bisexual, according to the survey.
More than half, 58.2%, of LGBTQ adults identified as bisexual in the poll.
A person can be bi-sexual and chaste. A person can be bi-sexual and never have had a same sex relationship or a heterosexual relationship.
To me, the biggest deal of this is that a stranger can call people and they will say things like this about themselves. Where before there was a stigma to this stuff, that is ending or the stigma is becoming attached to admitting heterosexuality.
“This is because homosexuality is not a disorder. It is found naturally in humans and in most animal species.”….so the behavior of animals is the standard for human behavior?
Homosexuality in animals is an indication that it is engrained in biology.
And other things are “engrained in biology”…so that makes them acceptable standards for human behavior?
https://www.reuters.com/article/wellness-lgbt-history/change-in-lgbt-health-sparked-50-years-ago-in-philadelphia-idUSL1N0ZI2PZ20150703
This article does not tell the whole story. The LGBTs at that time, challenged the whole scientific concept of “Mental Illness” and “Mental Health.” They were determined to get rid of Science’s classification of their disorders, with pretenses to the public of their disorders as being falsely “normal.” I recall, in all the news reports of the early 1970s– especially, the 1973 American Psychiatric Association meeting in San Francisco– how the violent gay activists threatened the American Psychiatric Association repeatedly, with warnings of violence and death threats. They were violent activists who would not stop at anything to get their way, and denied Science to obtain a false, unprofessional, “pseudo-scientific” definition of “normalcy,” and public acceptance of their disorders as being falsely “normal.” This article and others like it, reflects the relatively new, “soft” sciences of Psychology and Psychiatry as being more experimental, less well-established, unstable, unreliable– and full of “medical quacks,” with lies and confusion, not proven, reliable, stable, well-established Science. And these confused, unsure, unstable, lying “quacks” are easily bullied by unprofessional, violent activists.
I don’t what to say to someone who thinks the days of lobotomies and shock treatment were the good ol’ days.
More “quackery.” Very bad “science!”
There used to be many abuses in psychiatric hospitals, “medical quackery.” Not sure if this is fair– but I think that in cases where a patient cannot care for themselves, and is a danger or “menace” to their family and community, and lives a horrible life, “worse than animals,” on the streets, homeless, as a dope addict or criminal– they ought to be told they cannot live that way– and should be placed in a psychiatric or dope rehab. facility, perhaps permanently, in some cases. In such cases, maybe a person being “forced” to go and stay in a facility for treatment, nay be the best thing, as long as there is no abuse or neglect, as in previous eras.
If anybody is interested, you can find stories online about that meeting.
If it is a psychiatric disorder, then it is not a sin.
The Catholic Church has always taught that sodomy is a sin.
No, the Church teaches only that to be LGBT and commit pervert sex acts is a sin.
I just signed an online petition for Kristan Hawkins’ Students for Life, to the President of Virginia Commonwealth University. Last Wednesday, Kristan Hawkins and her co-host, Isabel Brown, of Turning Point USA, were scheduled to speak at a big meeting of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Students for Life chapter, with Kristan and Isabel as featured speakers and discussion leaders. But the violent actions by Antifa and a Trans activist group disrupted the entire event, and the speakers were unable to speak at all. Police were called by Kristan’s bodyguards– but they came late and didn’t do much. Kristan and her Students for Life now require paid bodyguards, for protection. That is just terrible! I would be deeply worried, as a mother of a student, or as a university official, in this terribly dangerous situation! In the 1960s, when all of this violent campus behavior started, I thought that disruptive, violent college kids should be kicked out of school, sent to jail, prosecuted, and not allowed to re-enter school.