Tag Archives: California

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an alert that a ruling will come tomorrow on whether to rehear Prop 8 with a larger panel of judges. Insiders speculate: KQED’s Scott Shafer said this is almost surely the decision on whether to rehear the case en banc. An en banc panel is made up of 11 judges, chosen at …

The California Senate has voted to ban “ex-gay” therapy for children under the age of 18. The bill has been ferociously opposed by the usual hate groups. Equality California sends this press release: If approved by the Assembly and signed by the Governor, Senate Bill 1172, authored by Senator Ted Lieu and co-sponsored by Equality California, the National Center for …

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“I know it’s at least over 80%, I believe it’s 80-85% success rate. These are people who leave the lifestyle, get married to people, have children, and enter heterosexual relationships. It’s a big mass of deception that they are trying to carry out at the expense of many hundreds of thousands or millions of youths who will be led down …

I should have pointed it out myself, but Jim Burroway makes the astute observation that California’s pending bill to ban “ex-gay” therapy would only apply to licensed mental health professionals. Parents would still be completely free to ship their poor child off to whatever crackpot dirtbag preacher they found on the internet. Burroway also outlines another way around the pending …

The nation’s fourth-ever case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been found in California. The carcass was at a Baker Commodities Inc. rendering facility in Hanford, California, according to Executive Vice President Dennis Luckey. The company renders animal byproducts and had randomly selected the animal for testing last Wednesday, he said. “We are in the business of removing dead animals from …

California state Sen. Ted Lieu (D) has introduced a bill that would outlaw “ex-gay” or so-called reparative therapy for children under the age of 18. Around The Capitol sums up the proposed item: This bill would prohibit psychotherapists, as defined, from performing sexual orientation change efforts, as defined, in the absence of informed consent of the patient. The bill would …

California has funded a controversial study to test whether giving high-risk patients a daily HIV medication will prevent their infection. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been denounced by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has launched statewide media campaigns against the concept. The pill, which is already used to treat HIV patients, will be prescribed to 700 gay and bisexual men and …

San Diego’s city council is considering a request to rename a street in its very gay Hillcrest neighborhood after Harvey Milk. San Diego Pride leaders are hoping to rename the street by May 22, which is the Harvey Milk Day celebration. “Not only does the street run into the LBGT center, this is where the pride parade begins, where the …

But it’s only for flights within California.

How do you make a child love Jesus? With a shovel. The pastor of a Riverside County storefront church and two of his followers were charged with assaulting a 13-year-old boy who authorities said was disciplined by being pinched with pliers, beaten with a shovel, forced to dig a grave and threatened with death. Suspect Lonny Remmers, 54, of Corona …

You may recall the case of the men arrested for refusing to stop preaching to a line of people waiting for a California DMV office to open. The arrests were made last spring and this week a judge refused to dismiss the charges. The preachers have issued a press release. An excerpt: Initially, when Mr. Mackey was arrested, the CHP …

Los Angeles Times reports: Los Angeles police are investigating a possible hate crime against a gay man, who reported he was attacked early Sunday morning in Hollywood. Around 1:30 a.m., the man was approached by three assailants near the intersection of Cahuenga Boulevard and Yucca Street, said Sgt. Sal Ogaz of the Los Angeles Police Dept.’s Hollywood Division. One of …

Randy Thomasson, of the newly certified hate group Save California, says children are already being brainwashed and SB48 hasn’t even been implemented yet. “In an apparent attempt to keep children enrolled for the purpose of sexual indoctrination and average daily attendance funding, the California Department of Education is deceiving parents about the mandate of SB 48, which requires, through supplement …

In the Catholic Church’s national campaign to make themselves ever more repulsive to the average American, the Diocese of Sacramento has cut off their funding of a local homeless shelter because its new director supports marriage equality. In a letter last month, the diocese’s director of social services said the Rev. Faith Whitmore’s public statements on the issues clash with …

Rep. David “Closet Case” Dreier (R-CA) will not seek reelection to the U.S. House this fall. Veteran Rep. David Dreier, one of California’s most influential Republicans in Congress, announced Wednesday that he won’t be running for reelection, perhaps the biggest casualty of the state’s first-ever citizens-drawn political map, which cast him into a politically inhospitable district. Dreier is the sixth …

The Sacramento Bee reports: The new Field survey shows support has leapt markedly in the three and a half years since California voters approved Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage, 52.3 percent to 47.7 percent. The poll showed increases in support virtually across the board – among voters under 64, non-white voters, Catholics, Republicans and nonpartisans. Poll Director Mark DiCamillo …