One of California’s largest medical insurance companies, Blue Shield of California, sponsored the LA Dodgers’ recent Pride Night. The Dodgers presented a Community Hero Award to the anti-Catholic hate group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, while thousands of Christians protested peacefully outside the nearly-empty stadium.
Blue Shield of California bills itself as “providing Californians with access to high-quality health care at an affordable price.” According to its website, the insurance giant boasts 4.8 million members – 12% of the state’s population and employs 7,500. Its most recently reported annual revenue totaled $24 billion. Blue Shield lost its tax-exempt status in 2015.
Blue Shield of California covers some so-called “gender-affirming” procedures for minors as young as 12, namely “hormone therapy.” The insurance company covers many types of so-called “gender-reassignment surgery,” but only for adults above the age of 18.
Other partners of the event consist mainly of LGBTQ activist groups, including: LA Pride, a Dodgers’ “long-time community nonprofit partner” that sponsors the LA Pride Parade and Festival; Outsports, an LGBTQ sports blog; OutLoud Sports, a “queer sports” organization that notably has also partnered with McDonald’s for 16 years; GLASA, “a recreational softball league, with an emphasis on providing an athletic outlet for the LGBT community in the southern California region;” GYM, a “gay sports bar” with locations in California, Florida, and New York; and Los Angeles LGBT Center, which recently hosted a “trans town hall.”
From Catholic Vote
Blue Shield of California’s home base is Oakland.
Burn all pride flags and merchandise such as the shirt in that pic.
Once again editors of CCD publishing encitememts to violence.
If they purchase them they can burn them.
If they burn ones that do not belong to them, they are criminals.
” encitememts to violence.” YFC, against whom are we supposed to be violent? Are you suggesting pro-lifers want to kill Blue Shield employees, or slit their tires, call them names? I have not seen too many examples of pro-life violence against anyone or anything, but perhaps I have missed something. Otherwise, you continue to post increasingly hostile, bitter words. At the very least justify what you say, and note: enticements or incitements, not encitememts.
Dan, I am getting worried about you.
Do you see how his comment is indented after the one saying to burn Pride things?
That is what he was talking about.
Thanks for worrying about me. Say a prayer while you’re at it, and I shall be glad. YFC’s point, however, was about inciting violence. Burning a pride flag is certainly a demonstration, but properly speaking, it is not violence against a person or group of people. It is a protest of what they stand for. When leftists burned the American flag during the Viet Nam war, it was a protest against the war, not a violent action against politicians or military personnel. So YFC’s claim about the editors was defamatory, though I don’t think they mind being mischaracterized. As a retired educator, however, I minded–and to help YFC called his claim (and his spelling) to his attention.
I think I accidentally gave you a thumbs down. I certainly do not approve of someone going up to someone’s house, taking a flag and burning it. That could cause serious damage if the fire spreads. Priests and their congregations have a right to take such flags out of their churches, though, as they do not belong there.
If you own it, it is a protest.
If it belongs to someone else, even a member of your household, it is considered an act of violence.
Praying for you, too.
“If it belongs to someone else, even a member of your household, it is considered an act of violence.” Well, you consider it an act of violence, I beg to differ. Let us go back to Viet Nam, back in my college days. If a flag was burned, it was not considered an act of violence but protest, at least so far as news reporting of the time, and my memory, indicate. If there is a legal definition of violence that accords with your understanding, then I stand corrected. YFC did not qualify his claim of inciting violence– so to presume he had in mind the burning of pride flags is, well, a presumption. If YFC clarifies his claim and says that is what he had in mind, that would be most helpful. His general statement gives rise quickly to thoughts of violence construed as physically harming people, which was as I understood his claim to be. I think the “man on the street” thinks of violence he thinks along those lines. A final point: I take YFC’s assertion to be defamatory because he construes the entire thread an incitement to violence, whatever he means by the term. I have read and reread the article and cannot find anything in it that would lead Cal Catholic readers to violence of any kind. It is rather an insult to Cal Catholic readers to suggest this might be the case. One of the benefits of a forum such as this is the possibility to vent here in writing and not on the street. Again, thank you for your prayers.
You have the right to get rid of a flag in your house if the person who has it is underaged or not paying rent. If adult children insist on trashing their parents’ home, the parents have a right to make them get out. We had neighbors whose son dressed as a woman and would have wild parties every time they went on vacation. We were glad when they moved.
If the underage person is your child and you paid for it, then yes, it would be considered your property.
It may be different in some other states.
If your child is underage, you have the right to take away and destroy anything they bring into your home that is inappropriate — such as porn, guns, flags, etc. The Ten Commandments demand respect for parents’ homes. I never allowed my teens to have sex in my house, nor did I do so in my parents’, step-parents’ or boyfriend’s parent’s homes, and I have never engaged in same-sex behavior. Some parents do allow such things, and it helps destroy families as the younger children see all that and copy it.
The gay activists have worked relentlessly to make perversion acceptable to mainstream America and demonize those who dare to resist (literally: check the language of His Eminence Robert Card. McElroy). Now the cancer has spread all over the body of society. I recently heard an excellent podcast on how this could happen. You can find it on Rumble if you search for:
How Gay Activists Brainwashed ‘Straight America’
The blueprint for this takeover was already there in 1987!
They love everything LGBTQIA+ because of the money made by treating diseases and injuries caused by homosexual activity, plus by dispensing medications and surgeries to the gender confused.
As with abortion, which damages everything it touches, actively living a rainbow lifestyle allows evil to engulf everything associated with it too.
The Pride Flag is not a true rainbow. It has just six colors and is used to groom children. The Noahide rainbow that God put into the sky of which the Bible speaks has seven colors — red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet (purple), and indigo (dark blue). Seven is the number of perfection Biblical symbolism. Seven days of creation, seven days in Biblical week, seven branched candlesticks, seven Sacraments, etc. The Pride Flag is just the opposite of the true rainbow. Six in Biblical symbolism stands for imperfection, incompleteness, When you see that flag, get your children away from it as soon as possible.
My city newsletter has featured gay “families” on the cover both times this month. Makes me furious. Gay go away.
Why so emotional?
I think normal people don’t want to have gay shoved in their faces like it is.
You are saying you only want to see what you want to see. Maybe God wants you to see what you don’t want to see.
Maybe it is a reminder to pray.
Also, to work on your own soul because you are not supposed to get angry at your brother.
Oh, yeah, let’s be like the Flintstones and have a gay old time. No thanks.
“Also, to work on your own soul because you are not supposed to get angry at your brother.” No one can fault an appeal to prayer, or to work on one’s own soul, to be sure. But there is something wrong with the statement in quotes. It is a response to “I think normal people don’t want to have gay shoved in their faces like it is.” I agree with this sentiment whole heartedly, and I think for a good reason: sins of any kind should not be shoved in our faces. To label such a sentiment as “angry at your brother” is simply an unwarranted judgment call. The writer reminder to pray has no window into the soul of the writer In our faces, or anyone else of like mind. It is quite possible that ” maybe God wants you to see what you don’t want to see” as this is true for most of us most of the time. Moral/spiritual blindness is something we all have to fight.
Original comment: Makes me furious.
California is in deep trouble with Almighty God. Repent!
Before you come unglued this is just a comment on graphic design.
I like how they fit the Progress Pride flag colors into the Dodgers lettering.