Tag Archives: California

California Dreaming?

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

Is it possible that our legislators are trying their best to make Illinois the California of the Midwest, without the mountains or beautiful weather? Our Governors, most certainly, are competing. Both have wildly inflated egos, both ignored their own directives during the height of the pandemic, and both have designs on the White House.

Posted in Education, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sexuality | Tagged All Gender Restroom, California, HB 1286, Illinois, Jeannie Suk Gersen, Newsom, Pritzker | Comments Off

Leftist Hive Mind Is Banning Ideas

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Benjamin D. Smith

Democrats have long pretended to be the party that fights to protect the little guy, all the while privately cozying up with Big Business, Big Tech, and Big Brother’s Press to oppress the little guys and gals. Democrat policies decimated the black family and our big cities. Democrats wasted millions of Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars and countless work hours on Russian collusion disinformation and impeachment ruses. And then in de facto collusion with social media mega-millionaires and the corrupt leftist press, the “progressive” hive threw the election to befuddled Biden and his henchwoman.

Posted in Education, Federal, Media Watch | Tagged 1984, Abigail Schrier, Adolph Hitler, Amazon, Anna G. Eshoo, Big Business, Big Tech, California, democrats, exchange of ideas, Fox Newss, George Orwell, ideas, Irreversible Damage, Jerry McNerny, Newsmax, OANN, Ryan T. Anderson, sexuality, speech, Target | Comments Off

California’s Religious Liberty Moment—Coming to Illinois?

Posted on June 28, 2016 by David E Smith

The California legislature is poised to consider legislation that could destroy the ability of numerous faith-based colleges and universities to pursue the mission for which they were created. SB 1146, one of two similar bills recently introduced into the California legislature, would essentially restrict fully faith-based education to seminaries.

Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged Barry Corey, Biola University, Brett McCracken, California, Ed Stetzer, Fresno Pacific University, Marty Duren, Richard Kriegbaum, Wesleyan College, Wheaton College | Comments Off

Victory for Marriage in California

Posted on November 18, 2011 by altha-admin

In a significant victory for pro-marriage forces, the California Supreme Court ruled this week that the sponsors of Proposition 8 have standing to defend the referendum in court when state officials refuse to do so.

Propositition 8 was a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in California. Voters adopted it in November 2008 by a 52 percent majority in a referendum vote, in a direct response to the California Supreme Court’s ruling that homosexual partners had a right to same-sex “marriage.”

After further court challenges, a federal trial judge in San Francisco overturned Proposition 8 on August 4, 2010, saying the …

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged California, Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, pro-marriage, Prop 8, Proposition 8 | Comments Off