When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, a trove of new LGBTQ laws will go into effect in California. Among them are edicts to make it easier for people to change their gender on various government-issued documents and to require money managers to undergo LGBTQ cultural competency training….
Due to the adoption of Senate Bill 107, authored by gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), starting next week it will be California policy to reject any out-of-state court judgments removing trans kids from their parents’ custody because they allowed them to receive gender-affirming health care. State health officials will not be allowed to comply with subpoenas seeking health records and any information related to such criminal cases, and public safety officers must make out-of-state criminal arrest warrants for such parents their lowest priority….
Another bill authored by Wiener, SB 923, requires California medical professionals who interact with transgender, gender-nonconforming, and intersex patients to receive cultural competency training. It also calls for health providers to create searchable online directories of their gender-affirming services.
Known as the TGI Inclusive Care Act, it builds on the state’s Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund created in 2020 and allocated $13 million last year. The Office of Health Equity within the state Department of Public Health administers the fund and awards grants to organizations providing trans-inclusive health care….
Another health care law going into effect in 2023, Assembly Bill 1041 by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), will benefit LGBTQ households. It expands the state’s family leave provisions for workers to include their chosen family members in addition to their biological relatives, spouses and children.
Wicks wrote it so that LGBTQ people estranged from their biological families but who live with close friends can take time off from work to care for their housemates who are ill….
AB 465 by former Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian (D-Van Nuys), who was termed out of office this month, requires professional fiduciaries to receive LGBTQ+ cultural competency and sensitivity training during their education and licensing process. Private professional fiduciaries provide critical services to older adults and people with disabilities, from managing their clients’ daily care, housing, and medical needs to ensuring their bills are paid and managing their investments.
Discrimination against LGBTQ foster families will now be banned due to the enactment of AB 2466, authored by lesbian Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes (D-Corona). Agencies that place foster children can no longer decline to place a child with a resource family because a parent identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer. It also scraps the usage of the phrase “hard-to-place children” in state codes.
Also finally becoming law in 2023 is legislation that Newsom initially vetoed in 2020 in order for a revised version to be reintroduced the next year for him to sign. AB 218 by gay Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego) creates a process for Californians seeking a change of gender to also request that their marriage license, certificate, and their children’s birth certificates be reissued with their updated gender-affirming information….
Full story in the Bay Area Reporter.
Well…the sooner all this goes down, the better. The US is not Europe and if California legislators are so absolutely lacking in self awareness that they cause the state to implode with more and more irrational mandates, the pendulum will swing in a huge way. If this isn’t a ‘hold my beer’ moment for California, I don’t know when was…All the illegals they’re welcoming, once given power, won’t stand for this stuff….
Time for Catholic institutions to fire every employed LGBTQABCDEFG person and volunteer who doesn’t live in accord with Catholic moral doctrine. If I were a pastor and the music director tried to marry someone of the same sex, that person would be fired pronto. There are Archdiocese of Los Angeles chancery employees in the Office of Religious Education who are in immoral gay marriages. They should be fired tomorrow. They should have been fired years ago.
Oh, and for the James Martin fans out there, the rule also applies evenly to regular people. If a music director civilly married outside the church? Fired. If a catechist is living in sin with her boyfriend? Fired.
We’re not targeting any group. We’re insisting that Catholic institutions be faithfully Catholic, which means employing people who are faithfully Catholic.
The clergy in California live in fear. Had a visiting priest from California up here say that if the priest there gave homilies like he heard, they’d cease to have parishes. That can mean a lot of things but the zeitgeist in California is fear. And even good guys like Abp Cordeleone look the other way at places like MHR. It’s terrible there and I wonder how long the tyrant minority is going to allow the Church to even operate openly. The irony is that the vast majority of California quietly agrees with you but won’t say a word because of well placed thugs and bullies.
It is very, very difficult to deal with pastors –and prelates– regarding sexually active gay Church musicians. A gay Cathedral Choir Cantor who lived with his lover, and held his Cantor job for a couple of decades, finally died of AIDS a few years ago– and had a big Cathedral funeral. He was always given Communion at Mass. The Archbishops (even the “good” ones!) all used to say, that they greatly feared possible public backlashes, if they denied jobs to sexually active gays. Other serious problems include heterosexual paid Church musicians living with a lover, and/or doing drugs, or even selling drugs. One time, a singer collapsed next to me, during the Easter Vigil, and I thought she just got sick. I had no idea that this young, paid singer was doing and selling drugs, and living with her boyfriend. However, I knew that she was on medication, for a serious and delicate illness! Scary! When I found out she had mixed drugs and her medication, and “got high” or some stupid thing– I told the Archbishop and the Choir Director, that she might die someday– right in front of us all! Don’t they care? This is a very dangerous– as well as very scandalous, highly irresponsible, and terribly immoral situation! This should never happen in a church! And this is a paid Church musician! But no, they did not care. They just overlooked it, and said that “in Vatican II, you can’t do anything about these things.” These strange drug problems occurred several times, with a couple of paid Church musicians– on big Feast Days, particularly– and it made me sick! One day, I gave up, and resigned.
At the time when I finally gave up and resigned from Cathedral Choir, about 25 years ago– due to the on-going irresponsible, scandalous immorality, and refusal of the Church to fix anything — I had just given the Church my check for the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal, and was very unhappy about that! So, when I turned in my keys, I quietly asked for my Archbishop’s Annual Appeal check back– and they found it, and gave it to me!
Now the restrictive gun laws in Oregon and California are starting to make sense….The joke is, every anti-gun law that is passed just causes firearm and ammunition sales to rise. Even in places that are pro 2A
why is earthquake activity increasing ???
hmmmm …..
Uh, no. No they’re not.
Leaving on a jet plane don’t know when I’ll be back again.
If your ticket is on Southwest you’re staying put.
I am waiting for a huge earthquake to cause CA to disappear into the ocean. While waiting for that glorious event to happen I moved to AZ where a moron was declared winner of the race for governor. There is no longer any place to hide.
then …. how about flooding?