The following comes from an Oct. 4 story in the Sacramento Bee.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation allowing children to have more than two parents.
The announcement Friday comes a year after the Democratic governor vetoed a similar proposal, citing the potential for unintended consequences.
Senate Bill 274 authorizes a court to recognize more than two parents if endorsing fewer would be “detrimental” to the child. The bill that Brown vetoed last year would have provided judges the authority to identify multiple parents if doing so was “required in the best interest of the child.”
Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, stressed that his measure applies only to families with more than two people who meet the state’s definition of a parent. It does not apply to stepparents, grandparents, girlfriends or caretakers. In an interview, Leno said he expected the law to be used sparingly, such as when a child could be at risk of unnecessarily entering the foster care system.
“The bill in its essence merely allows for greater judicial discretion,” Leno said. “It’s really about the child and in the best interest of the child.”
Last year’s version of the bill attracted attention after some critics argued it would make it possible for children to have six or even eight parents. Supporters countered that the proposal was intended when a child is at risk of having too few parents.
Leno’s measure grew out of an appellate court case involving a biological mother, her same-sex partner and a man who had an affair with the mother while she was temporarily separated from her female lover. In the 2011 case, the California Court of Appeal held that courts could not recognize more than two parents even if doing so would protect the child from harm.
Four other states and the District of Columbia have also recognized more than two parents.
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Destruction of the Family – by a Catholic Governor who is permitted to receive Holy Communion by several California Bishops.
Brown will NEVER learn without consequences to his actions.
Enforce Canon 915.
I can’t wait to see what judges in San Francisco County will do with their “judicial discretion” on this one.
If only all Catholic politicians with a (D) after their name would just go away…
We’ve all heard the phrase, “It takes a village to raise a child,” but this is a bit too much!
Look at that predatory smile…all those long, white teeth! Would you buy a car from this person, let alone let him make decisions about children? I’ll bet he goes to bed at night with a smile perpetuator @patent #666trillion, pulling his mouth up with surgical tape to his ears so even while dreaming and scheming he is one big fat California toothy smile that can also act as a night light in the dark @patent pend. What a guy. Skeleton heads have that same toothy grin. It would never play here…if you notice, all our politicians are frowning and their wrinkles seem to go down to their toes. I’d have to don sunglasses to withstand all that flash of white enamel with little glints of diamond like radiance. I can’t quite take it in…though it would appear that Californians have been…taken in, naturally. They must have caved in after one devastating glance at that killer smile.
Just like the example of putting a frog in cold water and gradually increasing the heat until he boils to death – never realizing what was happening, we are all being steeped gradually in the sodomite culture, laws, etc., and before we realize it we will be a totally lost culture. Who is enabling this takeover? The Catholic Church itself through its culture of false compassion and political correctness, and greed for government money.
One more reason to very seriously consider moving to America. Californians would be surprised to learn, I’d bet, that there are family oriented, family friendly states where marriage and family have not been redefined.
Yes, I deliberately differentiate between America and California to make my point. It’s a valid contrast with the completely alien mindset of your legislature, your governor, and evidently the voters who keep returning the idiotic into elected offices. Your votes have consequences, and it’s been getting steadily weirder. Whose fault is it ? It’s 100% the fault of the people who vote the weirdos in, and even worse, those who sit at home and watch a state destroy itself and then complain about it. Get off your rear ends and recall another governor and the Democrat Party hacks in office. Please, take your state back !
Ted,
With the massive voter endemic in Taxifornia (California), it is not a certainty that these demons have been elected and re-elected. Taxifornia is definitely a “Banana Republic”!
May God have mercy on an amoral America, especially Taxifornia”!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
amoral America & taxifornia!!! What next??.
Who is more insane; Jerry Brown or the low information voters who put ol’ Moonbeam back in office? The world may be getting its way now, but the Day of Wrath is coming. Then there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
What does it matter how many citizens are named as parents of an individual child? Jerry Brown and his cohorts have already designated the state as the parent of first order for all California children bringing the state further into line with the requirements of federal Obama executive orders. The state, through the departments of education and health care already are teaching lifestyle choices, nutrition, mental health counseling, training parents to follow the orders of the state, keeping data on all children through continual testing, determining when children need vaccinations, dispensing contraceptives and referring for abortions, teaching kids how to interact with each other, showing them how to grow their gardens, how to manage check books, determining their future employment and now they will be teaching them how to vote according to to AB 700 which creates a voter education framework.
The law is totally insane. Anywhere else in the world, it would be recognized as societal suicide.
What a field day for Sen. Mark Leno and his “Leather boys”. Now 3 or 4 men can openly “adopt” young boys. NAMBLA will be “adopting” them by the dozen!
Once again, Jerry Brown is confusing himself with God, redesigning God’s plans to suit his liberal agenda. I don’t imagine the Jesuits are entirely responsible for this man’s thinking, but I sometimes wonder whatever happened to all those nice Catholic boys I once knew who all but worshipped the ground their brilliant Jesuit teachers walked on? I hope they turned out much better than this madman.
They say this law does not apply to stepparents, grandparents, girlfriends or caretakers. The only example they give is of a woman who has a lesbian partner but had sex with a man. Apparently, they think that this child somehow would benefit from being considered the child of the cheated on Lesbian partner.
I am tired of the radical homosexual lobby once again using children as human shields to further the cause of their sick behaviors.
So am I, Tracy…actually, I’m utterly sick of them trying to undermine and destroy our entire culture. I can’t remember if Michael McDermott or someone else ever posted this little story, but to me it’s so symptomatic with the whole sick idea of having men like this empowered over the lives of young boys. Apparently the government is out to ‘get’ children, whether in the womb or later on when they’re helpless children. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/gay-conn-couple-accused-rape-face-trial-article-1.1310010?print
Dana, thank you for linking to this terrible story. I couldn’t help but notice that the rest of the media is silent on this. The paper who published it did their best to make it look like a “typical” garden variety child abuse story, not to mention, at the end of the story accusing the alleged 5 and 15 year old rape victims as actually being the perps. We truly live in evil times.
As if to confirm for everyone to notice that California is TRULY the place of the fruits and nuts comes this aberration called a “law” and signed into such by the governor who’s been in office for WAY too long, Gov. Jerry “Moonbat” Brown. The aberrant law’s genesis lies in a “same-sex marriage;”(oxymoron) What else does one need to know? And from it will come other legal monstrosities like polyamorous “marriages,” involving all shapes and flavors, from three men and one woman “marriages” to some comely wench “marrying” her favorite stallion. Wait and see. Once the inmates take over the asylum like they have nowhere else but like in California, all bets will be off. We’ll soon really understand what the poet/satirist Juvenal was talking about when he chronicled the doings in ancient Rome. We’re headed in the same direction. Which once again proves the assertion of some ancient Roman pagan: “whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” GOD BLESS ALL, Markrite
This is not godly doing, this is the work of the devil. For those who do not believe in the devil, it can be simply stated that this law is another example of evil run amok. How sad that once again, we are watching our civilization eroded more and more, even though Catholic politicians are in positions of power, acting like pretend Catholics when they seek votes and transmogrifying into totally insane atheists once they are elected.
Low information voters who choose representatives based on superficialities such as charisma, appearances, and pretend religious affiliations are not guiltless in this downfall, and the question arises again, “Can any democracy be sustained?” It requires an educated populace, and sadly, we have become a nation of poorly educated, misinformed, misguided and barely churched followers of silly, stupid and self-indulgent trends who can’t think, speak, write, or self-govern admirably any more, and that makes for easy pickin’s for power-grabbing egomaniacs who can’t lead properly either and don’t share traditional values with faithful Catholics. We need more faithful Catholics in public office, my friends. A few more sane people of any belief would be helpful too.
Is there one cleric who has the fortitude to publicly step forward and excommunicate Moonbeam for his flagrant antiCatholic activism?