California’s Democratic leaders have a message for Texans and Floridians opposed to their states’ stances on abortion, LGBTQ rights and gun control: You’re more than welcome in the Golden State.
The latest offering came from Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, who on Thursday announced forthcoming legislation that would “protect and provide refuge for transgender kids and their parents if they flee to California” from states such as Texas or Idaho, which have advanced measures to investigate or criminalize parents seeking gender-affirming care for their trans kids.
Wiener’s bill would:
- Prevent California courts from enforcing any out-of-state court rulings that deny parents custody for allowing their trans kids to get gender-affirming care.
- Block California agencies from complying with any out-of-state subpoenas seeking information about people who come to the Golden State for gender-affirming care.
- Declare as the lowest priority for California law enforcement any out-of-state criminal arrest warrant linked to someone receiving gender-affirming care.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, name-checked Disney, whose staff members are staging walkouts over the corporation’s refusal to publicly condemn Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill that would ban teaching kids in kindergarten through third grade about sexual orientation or gender identity “in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.”
- Newsom tweeted: “Disney, the door is open to bring those jobs back to California — the state that actually represents the values of your workers.”
The governor has maintained a relentless focus on Texas and Florida, slamming both in this month’s State of the State speech and a flurry of recent tweets. He’s also sponsoring a gun control bill modeled on Texas’ controversial abortion ban and has called on California to be a “sanctuary” for out-of-state patients seeking abortions.
Democratic lawmakers have answered with a package of reproductive health care legislation, including a bill that would create a fund — filled with both state and philanthropic money — to help low-income Californians and out-of-state women access abortions.
- The bill language, released Wednesday night, says the fund would help cover abortion patients’ airfare, lodging, ground transportation, gas money, meals, child care, doula support and translation services.
- State Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Berkeley Democrat and bill co-author: This proposal “sends a clear message to the rest of the nation: We are fully committed to ensuring that California women and those who may seek refuge here have access to all reproductive services, including abortion.”
- On Thursday, the Assembly passed a bill that would eliminate out-of-pocket costs for abortions and abortion-related services. It now faces a procedural vote in the Senate before heading to Newsom’s desk.
By framing California as a “refuge” and “sanctuary” for people who want to “flee” Texas and Florida, elected officials may be attempting to counter the narrative that Californians are fleeing to red states in search of lower taxes and more affordable homes…..
The above comes from a March 18 posting on Cal Matters.
The hatred of humanity is extraordinary. This movement will implode on itself. It’s going so deeply into the absurd so quickly…they’ve lost all self awareness. There are still more rational thinking people than these outside of California.
Not necessarily
California is no longer part of America.
Californa is s no longer a part of reality.
The LA Religious Education Congress has numerous LGBT affirming workshops this year, so it’s not just a Disney thing and it’s not just a California thing and it’s not just a Democrat thing. LGBT has infected and corrupted the leadership of the archdiocese.
I see one that says that social justice takes precedence over sexual ethics.
Sexual behavior outside of a sacramental marriage is injustice (even between consenting adults.) Although small, a couple of people is a social group. One person or even both persons influences the other to do things that are not good and uses the other to harm themselves and the other.
Two young people getting drunk together or using drugs together or robbing a store together is the same idea. The friendship does not take precedence over the dangerous actions.
Two young people who love each other who make a make a suicide pact. The love does not take precedence over the dangerous actions.
If a friendship or love relationship leads one to sin, you must leave it.
Often parents can see that a child’s friend is not good, but the child has to go through it until they can see it. Sometimes, if it is something that will lead to death or prison, you have to break them up. It is not social justice to let it continue.
Disney is putting a same-sex kiss in the new Toy Story movie. Disney is evil and is corrupting children.
California Politicians:
Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’
Achin’ for a Breakin’
“Progressive” to a Fault
as in San Andreas
Shame on the Golden State Satanic Democrats. A group of 108 criminals running a human trafficking ring in Florida, that included several Disney employees and a judge, was recently caught and arrested.
My comment of Mar. 19 at 1:56 am was edited. I think the authorities ought to go after all the Satanic Democratic Party criminals in this state. To allow doctors to wrongfully change kids to a different gender, with dangerous, mutilating chemicals and surgical procedures, is criminal.
My comment of March 19 at 8:08am was likewise edited. At the end I said that committing murder on unborn children is also a horrific crime! Shame on California’s Satanic Democrats!
The immoral Disney employees who are staging the walk-out need to be fired. Disney needs to completely return to a good Code of Ethics with all family values.
With all due respect you are all right. This will all implode and come down on their heads in the very near future. God wiIl not be mocked for too much longer. All of you please turn back to Almighty God. Eternal souls are at sake. Seek God’s love and mercy before it is too late.
Satanfornia…
Greg Walton’s workshop at the LA REC featured gay and transgender contributors. The archdiocese has been infected with trans ideology. REC must be stopped.
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Well, IMO if the LAREC had it’s ‘druthers, it would not include race/gender ideologues and, truth be told, neither would the prelates relevant to the geographical area. At the end of the day, they’re all just a bunch of chickens being cowed into looking the other way and being able to claim some degree of orthodoxy because of the great numbers of orthodox presenters there. They’re not heterodox, they’re just cowards. It’s the diff between Hell and Purgatory.
So he was at Justin Siena High School share a few workshops on LGBTQIA inclusivity and help with a retreat ?
I’ve never even heard of that school. I guess it is in Napa.
He is not gay but he has 2 gay kids.
So is that what makes him an expert in LGBTQ issues?
He promotes the trans agenda, which is good enough for the LA REC organizers to book him.
With all due respect you are right. This will all implode and come down on their heads in the very near future. God will not be mocked for too much longer. All of you please turn back to Almighty God!. Eternal souls are at stake! Repent and seek God’s love and mercy before it is too late!
If we do got to war with Russia, may their strategic missiles be squarely aimed at the satanic state of California
Why does CCD print this dreck?
Because CCD knows that California is begging for a chastisement, enjoy the coming Shame month, its hopefully the last one to be “celebrated”
Not the whole state, behemond.
Yes all of it… then restart
Pure transphobia
What is transphobia? I ask because it seems to me that most of the new words ending in “phobia” having nothing to do with fear. Perhaps you can help me, and thanks in advance.
I think it means being afraid of transgender people as “others”. As different. As a perceived threat to your perfect nuclear family or values. It’s often fear of the unknown because most people don’t know someone who is transgender. Sometimes it’s repressed trans feelings in the person himself for which he overcompensates. Think of the movie The Power of the Dog and the cowboy repressing his homosexual feelings and overcompensating by being aggressively macho.
There is no such thing as trans whatever, less then one tenth of one percent of the population has upended the culture. May the push back be swift.
“Transphobia” as a cultural phenomena really didn’t begin until there began to be issues over it in high schools and it quickly went to grade schools. I don’t think it was a threat to family values as much as it was confusing to children.
The first thing I remember was the “bathroom bills” for schools and people who were standing up for the child’s rights were called transphobic. They were not concerned about trans people. They were concerned about sexual predators pretending to be trans and gaining access to vulnerable girls while they were using the restroom. Which did happen.
“I think it means being afraid of transgender people as “others”. As different….” IMO, your answer is that of an obscurantist. The word “afraid” is so imprecise as to be useless. Let me explain with an example: The biological male Lia Thomas wants to swim against women, and most people of sane mind regard this as a travesty. Is the man Lia Thomas a threat to women’s sports? Based on recent results I think so, or I could say, I am afraid of what he is doing to women’s sports. But in no way can this legitimate concern be called a phobia.
It’s as simple as this: a male is a male and can never become a female; a female is a female and can never become a male. Nobody with male anatomy is or can become female, and nobody with female anatomy is or can become male. Conceived and born biologically male, always male. Conceived and born biologically female, always female.
That is extremely simplistic. A male can be a transgender female. A female can be a transgender male.
But the issue for a Catholic is: just because something can be done does not mean that it should be done.
The Catholic Church has really not ever spoken on whether this is a sin.
You cannot change your sex on your baptismal record.
Transgender men cannot become priests.
They have denied transgender females the possibility of starting a religious order.
As you say, transitioning does not change your sex.
If this is a personal issue for you because you or someone you know is facing this challenge, you should really educate yourself.
A male can be a transgender female. A female can be a transgender male. wrong on both counts, a person can have themselves mutilated to their twisted desires but their DNA will not change. They are as God made them. Transgender people so called, should be institutionalized, jailed or both… Oh what LGBT “rights” have wrought… a war on Truth
I’m proud to say that I reject anyone who supports transgender craziness. Nope, you’re not my friend nor acquaintance if you think men can become women or vice-versa. We just have nothing to talk about, and I don’t want you in my life if you’re going to accept lies as truth. Don’t need that. Don’t want that.
Straw man.
I guess I need to come up with an identifiable name. Not me.
I am only going to respond to identifiable posters like YFC, Anne TE, Dan, jon.
I leave it blank a lot and let the website pick a name for me but I am going to stop and will only post under an identifiable name.
There is no such thing as a transgender. It is mental illness. Will Thomas, the NCAA swimmer competing in women’s events, is a man, not a woman, not a female. He has a penis. No woman has a penis. Only men have them. There I said it.
Do you understand that gender and sex are not the same thing?
What used to be called trans-sexuals are now called transgender because sex cannot be changed.
by all means, let ’em come.
BUT, they ALL have to stay at the homes of
Newsom, Weiner & Skinner
Have fun y’all.
No one claims that a male becomes female or a female become male.
Caitlyn is not a woman. She is a transgender woman.
Lia is not a female. She is a transgender female.
By saying transgender you acknowledge that they were born male.
And everybody understands that sex cannot be changed.
This comment would be pilloried for bigotry by leftists and on Twitter and Facebook and every other media. It amounts to saying that trans women aren’t real women. The left and trans ideology assert that trans women are women just as much as biological women are. I hope you understand that’s how radical the trans ideology is.
That’s what they mean by saying that men can get pregnant and that men can have uteruses. They assert that trans men are true men, but men who can give birth if they still have a uterus.
If you think trans ideologues and the left think there’s any meaningful difference between trans women and biological women, you don’t understand trans ideology.
That’s why Will Thomas is allowed to compete with real women: the NCAA, capitulating to trans ideology, considers Will to be a real woman. Yes they do.
It’s lunacy.
I don’t think the terms “real woman” or “true man” are even used.
I think you are injecting your own thing into it.
You might be right but I have never seen it.
I have seen twice “Trans women are women.” but that is not exactly the same thing.
It would seem to me that if that occurred it was probably in response to someone being what they call transphobic.
A part of the reason not to have this conversation too young (like in grade schools) is that those concepts are really not a part of it, but kids do think like that.
I just saw a video with Ryan Reynolds stumped by a question by a kid asking if a kissing scene in a movie was real. “Was that a real kiss?” He did not have the language to answer the question. The best he could come up with was “I didn’t mean it.”
just make sure they stay out of Bakersfield.
Nobody wants to go to Bakersfield. Don’t worry.
Ok then how come you can buy gender changers online and at any computer electronics store?
The gender changers you refer to don’t attempt to change the nature of an electronic device. They merely make it possible for one device to interface with another if the wrong connector is at the end of a cable. It’s a type of adapter, like adapting a USB-C plug into a USB-A plug so you can insert a USB-A cable into it.
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