The following comes from an August 11 College Fix article:
Religious colleges in California are safe from state regulation of their religious practices, for now.
Following heavy opposition from a broad coalition of Christian, Jewish and Muslim college leaders, as well as legal scholars and others across the ideological spectrum, a state senator has promised to pull the most objectionable provision from his college antidiscrimination bill.
Democrat Ricardo Lara told the Los Angeles Times Wednesday he will amend SB 1146 to remove a provision that would open California religious colleges to litigation if they enforce lifestyle expectations that disfavor LGBT students, such as a prohibition on same-sex intimacy.
Transgender students could have sued if their colleges kept them out of housing, bathrooms or locker rooms reserved for the other biological sex. Married homosexual couples could have sued if schools kept them out of married student housing.
The “public shaming” provision will remain in the bill, however: Colleges must disclose if they have an exemption and tell the state Commission on Student Aid when they expel students for violating lifestyle expectations.
Lawyer and National Review contributor David French, whose brief flirtation with a third-party presidential run put him on the national radar, wrote that Lara’s backtracking shows what social conservatives can do when they organize.
Though college leaders are justifiably “breathing a sign of relief … the threat is hardly over,” so California Christians should spend the next several months “building coalitions and signaling that resistance next year will be even more vigorous than this year,” French said.
‘Safe For Now’ – in our One Party State… Right!
Oh how I long for the honest transparency of North Korea’s Hereditary ‘Communist’ Dictator and that People’s Democratic Republic:
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Legislature clings to “gut and amend” powers
https://www.capoliticalreview.com
Even as a measure to end the most egregious offenses waits for voters in November, even as the procedure is discouraged by leadership and even as the move is prohibited by the Legislature’s rules, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon will continue to allow bills to be gutted and amended, his staff confirmed.
Gut and amend is a catchall phrase thrown around Sacramento. In general, it means removing all or a substantial part of a bill and replacing it with new provisions…
Religious freedom is under attack folks, and here is yet another example. Lefties are trying to determine what is “acceptable” religion and guess what Catholics – they don’t approve of you. Stand and fight, for we are the Church Militant!
Like every other Democrat, he is a small-minded hypocrite! Senator Lara favors massive immigration and has just authored a new law to supply immigrants more benefits. He appears to be so self-centered and angry that he didn’t realize that he ought not to rock the boat: the U.S. Bishops resettle more refugees and asylees than any other non-governmental organization! And all at taxpayer expense.
“Authored by Senator Ricardo Lara, Senate Bill 1159 allows all otherwise eligible applicants to obtain a professional license, regardless of their immigration status, by allowing the use of a Social Security Number (SSN) or an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) in the application process.”
But your labor, time, and money are still not safe from Cal Grants.
Viva el Arzobispo Gomez!!! He really took a leading role in defending religious liberty. We are lucky to have a shepherd like Archbishop Gomez in Los Angeles.
For anyone who really thinks that a man can change to being a woman and visa versa, I recommend the website “Trading My Sorrow” by Walt Heyer. He had gender issues because his grandmother dressed him as a girl when she babysat him when he was four until his parents found out. After marrying a lady and having children with her, he later had a so-called sex change because of his gender confusion, which he soon regretted because he found out that it was a lie that one could actually change ones sex.
His life was turned around by good Christian counselors, and he went back to this wife. The surgery he undertook is also described on the website, and one thing that sticks in the mind is the mutilation does not change a thing. It is just a…
Transgenderism is a mental illness. People who suffer from it need to be treated in an attempt to cure them, not indulged.
Anyone who supports the LGBT agenda (normalizing sexual deviancy and related mental illnesses through government and social coercion) is either a fool or a tool.
The Anonymous post at 7:46 pm today, August 11 was mine. To finish it, the operation just mutilates the male genitalia to look like a woman’s while the person still has all male chromosomes. I am not writing here about the rare cases were a person is actually born with an abnormality which needs to be corrected, but physically normal men and women who try to change their gender through an operation. It simply cannot be done.
Regarding ABORTION: April 2015 – Hillary stated in regard to abortion.
” And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed,” – Clinton.
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Not only does Hillary Clinton support abortion for any reason,
she wants all taxpayers to pay for them,
and wants to deny us our religious freedom.
If elected Hillary Clinton will nominate very dangerous judges to the US Supreme Court.
That which the government subsidizes, it controls. Don’t want the strings attached to government largesse? Don’t dip your snout into the trough.
SAFE for NOW?? Sad! Let’s make SURE the Supreme Court vacancies get filled the right way (with conservatives & constitutionalists) & help make Religious Colleges safer for ‘a much longer time’ & VOTE THEM OUT! Let’s STOP the war on Christians & Catholics (in particular) & VOTE THEM OUT! In the words of Pope Francis: Trump is a Christian; Catholics Can Vote for Him (Better if the pope pointed out Trump is the only por-life, pro-Christian candidate but guess that is asking for too much?) See this article @ https://www.Catholics4Trump.com/ The last 3 3/4 years have opened the floodgates of hell against Christians in America. Make America better for a long time & VOTE THEM OUT! God Bless America.
From caption of picture: On August 10, Lara tweeted, “As a gay Catholic man, nobody has the right to dictate how I worship or how I observe my religion” Really? Our parish priest said, “there is no such thing as a GAY catholic”. If you use the term GAY with THAT kind of pride, which usually means you are NOT living a chaste life, then you aren’t ‘Catholic’. Don’t mock God, His church & Church teaching. All Catholics are called to a life of CHASTITY if they want to save their immortal soul. Obviously, the soul is of no matter in this example as the GAY seems to be ‘everything’. Poor confused soul.
Correct: “gay” is not an ontological identity as male and female are.
“LGBT” refers to subjective identities that the Left and pseudo-professionals are pushing people to accept. An LGBT Catholic is a self-contradiction, so you are correct that there cannot be a gay Catholic man; but there can be a Catholic man with homosexual tendencies.
What is pernicious about Catholic LGBT ministries is that they cede to those groups the legitimacy of the LGBT label, as if LGBT describes something ontological and normative rather than subjective and pathological. Many bishops seem not to understand how counterproductive it is to have LGBT Catholic ministries, complete with all sorts of rainbow symbols such as the detestable rainbow fish, a…
Thanks. Also good to know, the 2015 Gallop Poll results = 3.8% identify as LGBT. Americans are TOLD it’s 25% & it is less than 5%! If only people knew it’s a tiny group of challenged folks. Although God knows, this 3.8% are trying to make our kids/young adults sympathetic by indoctrination or (latest school thing) rainbow unicorns. Aren’t we all (96% of America) tired of this LBGT or GBLT (as it’s the G in gay that should be first as it is the largest group) being pushed on Christians & especially Catholics? Sodom & Gomorrah has been pushed on America by the agenda of the POTUS. We need to re-act & VOTE THEM OUT! God will not be mocked!
Of course, Gay Democrat Lara cannot be trusted. He will be back to apply another turn of the ratchet that limits religious liberty. At stake here are the Cal Grants financed by Barack Hussein Obama that means-tested students can use to borrow money to attend Christian Colleges. Archbishop Gomez stopped the immediate threat this time but the Democrat agitators that control California will return and return. Just like they did with Euthanasia which is now sadly the law of California since June 8, 2016.
Democrat Ricardo Lara is a one person left wing hate group!
Apparently you don’t know what hate means. Or what a group means, for that matter.
Unfortunately the system is rigged in favour of what people like Lara is trying to do. We need to pray every day to combat the evil that is being foisted throughout the entire western world. People like Lara know the system is rigged in favour of the purveyors of the culture of death. Without religious liberty and freedoms there is no democracy. Pray for a return to the culture of life and that the forces of evil will be defeated by Almighty God and end the persecution of Christians and people of faith who are trying to uphold moral truths that have withstood the test of time. Viva Cristo Rey!