The following comes from a Feb. 25 story on presscalifornia.com by Gret Burt.
A controversial LGBT Foster Care bill (AB-175) that forces caregivers to use a foster child’s “pronoun of preference” heads to its first committee Tuesday in the Assembly Human Services Committee.
Its author, Assemblyman Mike Gipson (D-Compton), argues the bill is needed to ensure foster youth have an “inclusive” home environment, while religious liberty experts say the law disregards the free speech rights of foster parents and forces Christians to violate their religious beliefs.
“These new rights are going to put Christian foster parents in an impossible position,” said California Family Council president Jonathan Keller.
“Either they will violate this law by remaining faithful to their biblical beliefs about the biological/binary nature of gender, or they will violate their faith by affirming the confused gender feelings of their foster care children.
“Why would the state want to push Christian foster parents out of the system, when foster parents are already in short supply?”
AB 175 adds the following new rights to the current Foster Youth Bill of Rights:
The right to be referred to by one’s preferred name and gender pronoun;
The right to receive adequate clothing, grooming, and hygiene products, that reflex a child’s sexual orientation, or gender identity and expression;
The right to attend school clubs, parades, and other activities consistent with the child’s age, sexual orientation, and gender identity and expression;
The right to have reasonable access to computer technology and the internet.
“California lawmakers seek to empower troubled teens with legal authority to choose their own names and correct the grammar of their parents,” said Kevin Snider, Chief Counsel Pacific Justice Institute.
“The bill fundamentally disregards the free speech rights of foster parents by compelling them to say something they don’t agree with.”
Sorry, what’s the problem here?
Confirming people in their sin and mental illness is what’s the problem here.
Please look up Klinefelter Syndrome and explain to me how this is “confirming people in their sin and mental illness”.
Christian rights and gay wrongs cannot coexist. You either serve God or you serve Satan. The battle lines are drawn. This Insanity will not be tolerated.
Simple biology 101: one is either male or female. It is throughout ones DNA. One cannot change it. One can have a surgeon mutilate his or her body and pour opposite sex hormones into it, but the DNA stays the same. Even those who are born with a genital defect should aim for the type of corrective surgeon that is closer to his or her DNA. This legislation is just another attempt to keep decent people from being foster parents and putting children at risk.
Correction to fourth line: “corrective surgery”.
Simple biology isn’t so simple. Sex isn’t determined, as you asy, “throughout ones DNA”, but by a small handful of genes on the Y chromosome, a very tiny chromosome, so inessential to life that women lack those genes entirely. And the expression of most genes encoded into DNA can be modified through epigenetic chemical changes that create an environmental conversation with one’s genetic DNA, which can in some circumstances be transferred from mother to child. A scientist friend of mine, who identifies as transgender, believes that BPA in plastics forces epigenetic changes to DNA that lie at the root of much transgenderism. So it’s not quite as simple as you might think it is.
Anne TE please look up Klinefelter Syndrome and explain to us all how one is “either male or female…throughout ones DNA”. If one is born with two X chromosomes and one Y, which is the “sex closest to his or her DNA”?
just reduced the supply of foster parents
Assemblyman Mike Gipson (D-Compton)
is a “genius”
next: always and exclusively serve food
of the child’s preference and bedtime hours
to be determined in the sole discretion of the child
I know you love to change the subject helen wheels, but honestly, what good parent doesn’t want to understand what is going on in the mind and heart of their child? If the pool of potential foster parents decreases because they have so little compassion for their own children, then, so be it. It’s better than having homeless children who are kicked out of their homes for being honest about who they are. Did you know that about 40% of homeless youth are LGBT, and became homeless because of rejection by their families?
Sorry, what’s the problem here?
Children with serious problems need loving guidance! They also must obey parents and all others, seeking to lovingly guide them! They should be protected from the highly dangerous and immoral “LGBT” world!
YFC: Pax tecum.