Groomer Al Muratsuchi Still Refuses to Grant Hearing for Parental Notification Bill AB 1314

 

Predatory Mark Berndt and Groomer Al Muratsuchi

California State Asm. Al Muratsuchi is one of the biggest cheerleaders for the drop-out factories we used to call "public schools."

When he first got elected in 2012, he was a guaranteed foot-soldier for the teachers unions, who bought his campaign, bought his seat, and bought him body and soul.

One of the first bills he introduced into the legislature?

AB 375, a bill that would have made it HARDER to fire pervert teachers. The bill was so bad, that even Governor Brown had to veto it. 

Here's the full ad on Al's support for that terrible piece of legislation:

Al's bill would have allowed predators like Mark Berndt, the notorious serious child abuser from Miramonte Elementary School in LAUSD, to get away with his crimes, some suggesting that he had molested as many as 100 students!

Groomer Al Muratsuchbi also supported AB 1266 in 2013, which allowed males to use female restrooms in public schools across the state. Notice how a similar bill has NOT passed to force every private and public facility to allow men to use women's restrooms throughout the state, too. The kids are always targeted, and the groomers get to groom on campuses across the state.

And Groomer Al doesn't care. He has no problem pushing social engineering and outright abuse onto California's children.

Fast forward to 2020, and Groomer Al voted for SB 145, a bill that made it easier for sex offenders to avoid the sex offender registration. Yes. If a 24-year-old had sex with a 14-year-old, he (or she) could avoid the sex offender registry based on the discretion of the judge. That's what the bill did, and Groomer Al went all in on allowing sex offenders to abuse kids and above the sex offender registry.

How sickening does it get in Sacramento? Does anyone have any shame left in that town? Worse yet, Muratsuchi was the tie-breaking vote. It would have died on the floor of the State Assembly if he had voted for "No."

SB 145 was so bad, that outspoken progressive Lorena Gonzalez spoke out against the bill, and she urged a "No" vote on the floor of the State Assembly. As a chair for one of the key committees in Sacramento, that was an unprecedented move, her going against the state legislative leadership. And yet, Groomer Al voted for it.

In 2023 and even today, Groomer Al Muratsuch is blocking AB 1314 from getting a hearing in the CA State Assembly. This commonsense bill would require school districts to inform parents if their students are going by different names, pronouns, or claiming to be a different sex at the school.

Here's the full report from California Family Council:

California Assembly Education Committee Chair Al Muratsuchi is still blocking public debate at the state capitol over parent notification in schools despite polls showing the voters overwhelmingly support it. Last year, Assemblyman Bill Essayli introduced AB 1314, a bill requiring public schools to notify parents if a child starts identifying at school as a gender that does not align with the sex listed on his or her birth certificate. 

The legislation was assigned to the Assembly Committee on Education, but Muratsuchi refused to set the bill for a hearing. This week there is an opportunity for him to change his mind before Friday’s deadline. But Muratsuchi is still refusing.

“Nothing good comes out of keeping secrets from parents,” Essayli told a crowd gathered outside the state capitol last week. “Nobody loves their children more than their parents. If children are struggling with their identity; if they are struggling with anything at school, they need their parents. To isolate them from their parents is to do them harm.”

“Unfortunately, this legislature is so arrogant, they are so pompous, they refuse to even give my bill a hearing,” he complained. “They don’t even want to take a vote. That’s how little regard they have for the people of this state.”

Muratsuchi explained the justification for his decision in a press release last April. “As Chair of the Education Committee, I will not be setting AB 1314 for a hearing, not only because the bill is proposing bad policy, but also because a hearing would potentially provide a forum for increasingly hateful rhetoric targeting LGBTQ youth.” 

Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi

Greg Burt, vice president of the California Family Council, says this decision reveals the contempt some lawmakers have for the Constitutional rights of parents to guide and oversee the upbringing of their children. “Why is a discussion about keeping parents informed about the struggles of their children seen as threat towards LGBTQ-identified youth?” Burt asks. “Parents, keen to protect their children, always want to be informed about their kids’ lives. This is true for parents no matter what their political or religious affiliation.”  

A recent California poll confirms this contention. A SPRY Strategies poll from last November shows liberal and conservative voters agree on parent notification. The poll asks the following question: 

“A school board voted to notify parents if their child identifies as transgender or the opposite sex. The Attorney General is suing that school district. Do you agree parents should be notified if their child identifies as transgender in school?”

58.1 percent of the respondents said they “strongly agree” with this statement. An additional 14 percent said they “somewhat agree.” Another Rasmussen poll from last May yielded similar results.  

After Essayli’s bill was refused a hearing last year, he joined with a group of parental rights organizations (Coalition for Parental Rights) to promote parent notification policies in local school districts. (read more here) So far 10 California School Districts have implemented a notification policy of their own, even though California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against one of the school districts over the policy. (read more here) 

What is it with Creepy Groomer Al Muratsuchi, anyway? Why is he so determined to allow perverted adults in the classroom to get away with all kinds of predatory behavior against children?!

This is really disturbing!

At the May, 2023 town hall that he hosted in the Torrance City Council chambers, he received loud boos from the audience for blocking this bill in the State Assembly Education committee, which he currenlty chairs. I was stunned at the level of outrage directed towards him, considering that most of the voters are pretty moderate-to-liberal on most cultural issues. However,for protecting the systemic grooming of children in California classrooms. Strangely enough, he does not have the full video of that town hall on his YouTube channel ...

What will it take for voters to pay attention in the South Bay and start electing better people who actually care about the health and welfare of children? Why do so many voters from El Segundo to Palos Verdes turn a blind eye to this creepy groomer assemblyman, who is determined to give predator teachers and their enablers more protections than children and parents?

Tell Asm. Muratsuchi to vigin AB 1314 a hearing and vote YES!

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Horrific: California passes LGBT bill that removes “sex offender” label for adult-child homosexual sex

 

California passes LGBT bill that removes “sex offender” label for adult-child homosexual sex

Signed by Governor over objections of many Democrats

MassResistance fought hard to stop it

Analysis: Result of long-term capitulation on the issue by pro-family movement

September 17, 2020

 The California Assembly (all wearing masks) suddenly takes up SB145 on August 31 - the very last day of the legislative session.

A huge problem in society is teenage boys (and also girls) being seduced and lured into homosexuality by “gay” older youth and adults. Many anguished parents have shared their heart-breaking stories of that with us. The “chicken hawk” – a homosexual man who seduces boys – is part of the homosexual vocabulary. As far back as 1972, the homosexual movement called for the repeal of age of [sexual] consent laws.

As we reported last June, there was a frightening LGBT bill in the California Legislature, SB 145, that would remove the mandatory “sex offender” label for adult-child homosexual sex. The bill was filed in Jan. 2019 by Sen. Scott Weiner (D-San Francisco), who is openly “gay” and has been an aggressive LGBT advocate in the legislature.

 Openly “gay” State Senator Scott Wiener (left) and “friend” at a recent San Francisco Gay Pride Parade.

At the time of our previous report the bill had been stalled in the Assembly’s Appropriations Committee for over a year by the Committee’s chairman, Lorena Gonzalez (D-Chula Vista). It was assumed to be effectively killed, though MassResistance continued to organize Gonzalez’s local constituents to push her to keep it blocked.

But suddenly everything changed. On Aug. 20, 2020, the Appropriations Committee voted to approve SB 145 and move it forward. On Aug 31, the very last day of 2020 legislative session, both houses of the California legislature voted to pass it. On Sept. 11 it was signed into law by the Governor. (One pleasant surprise: Every Republican voted against it.)

During that time, MassResistance worked around the clock to stop the bill, marshalling citizens across the state to pressure their legislators. Some got meetings with staffers. Some MassResistance activists confronted legislators at town halls and other public events. After the bill passed the legislature, we worked with some Democrat legislators who opposed the bill to attempt to persuade the Governor to veto it. But the sudden momentum was too great, even though several left-wing Democrats besides Gonzalez were against the bill.

How did this happen? The bill had languished and seemed dead to most people who follow those things in California, then at the last minute took off like a rocket. Here are the two things that we noticed:

Legislators’ dishonest action

Assembly member. Lorena Gonzales, chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, had sat on the bill for over a year.  Then on Aug. 20, 2020, she brought it up for a vote – likely under pressure from the leadership.

As the Bill 145 vote-tally page shows, it passed the Appropriations Committee by 10 to 6 with 2 abstentions. Since abstentions are considered “No” votes under California legislative rules, it was effectively a 10-8 vote.

But if you look carefully, three of the committee members who voted “Yes” to pass SB 145 out of Committee (Calderon, Eggman, and Eduardo Garcia) later voted “No” or abstained (both effectively a “No” vote) when it got to the Assembly floor for the final vote! Had those three voted the same way in the committee as they did on the Assembly floor, the bill would have died in committee.

Why did they do that? That way they could please their left-wing party bosses and the LGBT lobby by getting it out of committee, and they could still tell their constituents that they opposed it when the Assembly voted! (The leadership knew they had the votes to spare in the full Assembly.)

It’s a very corrupt process, one which allows lawmakers to make it seem as though they showed courage and integrity in voting against their party, when in fact they were going along with their policy agenda the whole time. We’ve contacted their offices for an “explanation,” but the three Assembly members and their staffs refuse to comment on it.

 The final Assembly vote was 41-18, with the rest of the 80-member body abstaining. But the margin is misleading. As soon as the leadership knew they had a majority, they allowed the other Democrats to vote any way they pleased, or absain.

SB 145’s opponents lose the argument

The rallying cry of the LGBT lobby was that bill SB 145 was simply to bring about equality – treating everyone the same.

Since 1944 in California, if an adult (age 18 or over) had heterosexual relations (i.e., vaginal sex) with a teenager (age 14-17) and the age difference between them is less than 10 years, then the adult has not been required to register as a sex offender – it was up to the judge’s discretion. But if the adult had homosexual relations (i.e., sodomy, oral sex) with a teenager, then he was required to be registered as a sex offender – the judge had no discretion.

SB 145 removed the requirement of being a registered sex offender if the adult had homosexual relations with the minor, and gave the judge the same discretion as with heterosexual sex.

The LGBT activists and the Democrat leadership argued that the previous difference in punishment was unfair, unequal, and discriminatory. This bill just made it the same for both. It was a powerful argument. Who could be against equality?

But in fact, it was unequal for a good reason. The law rightfully recognized the depraved and destructive character of homosexual sex (both physical and mental) and how it affects a child much more profoundly. When that original law was passed (in 1944) the legislature understood that very well.

But in 2020 virtually nobody (except MassResistance!) was willing to say that. They were afraid the Left might call them “homophobic.” So as a result, the arguments that were used against the bill were logically pretty weak.

Much of the time, the opposition to SB 145 seemed completely disjointed. Lorena Gonzalez – a liberal, progressive Democrat – spoke passionately against the bill during the Assembly debate. She started off by saying that she supported LGBT “equality” which this bill would provide. But then, speaking as the mother of a 14-year-old, she said she was very uncomfortable with adults having sex with young teenagers, and therefore was voting against it. It begs the question: If she’s so worried about children being exploited, why didn’t she file a different bill that made heterosexual sex with minors a mandatory sex offender listing? Her speech (and the similar speeches by other opponents) didn’t do much to dissuade any of the bill’s supporters.

 During the floor debate on SB145, Assembly member Lorena Gonzalez speaks against the bill.

The larger failure of the pro-family movement

If conservatives aren’t willing to speak out on this issue, we certainly can’t expect liberals to do so!

Let’s be honest. This is the result of a fear among pro-family people of opposing the concept of LGBT “equality” with heterosexuality and telling the truth about perverted behaviors. It has been predominant in mainstream conservative circles for many years.

We could tell story after story of pro-family activists around the country who will fight the “hetero” portion of Comprehensive Sex-Ed and other horrible programs in their schools, but won’t oppose (at least publicly) the “homo” part of it. They will even make it a point to say “No, we’re not ‘anti-gay.’ We’re just against ‘inappropriate’ sex-ed material.” It’s one of the reasons our side loses that battle so frequently. They’re selling out children’s well-being for their own political cover.

Of course, a huge part of the problem is that a frightening number of so-called pro-family conservatives (most of whom claim to be religious) actively accept the absurd LGBT “born that way” argument. As a result, they may be uncomfortable with the latest transgender madness, but they aren’t really opposed to the homosexual agenda targeting children.

Final reflection

In many ways, as we’ve discussed above, the mushy pro-family movement has become a major impediment to fighting and stopping this hideous agenda. This is not just in fighting the exploitation of children, but also the “gay marriage” issue, oppressive LGBT non-discrimination laws, transgender public restrooms, etc.

Too many pro-family groups avoided labeling SB 145 as what it apparently really was: a way to make it easier for homosexual adults to prey on vulnerable teenagers. This is what the LGBT movement has sought for decades – and has incrementally worked towards.

Most pro-family groups also misjudged the power of LGBT militancy in the California legislature. They did not believe that such a horrible bill would actually make it to the Governor’s desk – and be signed into law. So they didn’t put in the hard day-to-day lobbying work against it.

Too many family groups focus on creating relationships and persuading lawmakers and LGBT groups to stop pressing forward with the LGBT agenda, rather than confronting them outright that everything about the LGBT movement and its ideas are wrong. They are only focused on the policies that are pushing more offensive intrusions against children. They have all but given up on stopping the LGBT onslaught at its core. They still do not understand that there is no room for compromise or dialogue with LGBT activists and their supporters, whether in the major parties or interest groups around the country. Still, many pro-family lobbying groups think they can work out compromises to slow the spread of this dangerous agenda, when they should be working towards undermining the agenda completely.

Politicians need to be made to feel ashamed of supporting this horrible agenda, not celebrated for it. MassResistance will keep up this fight!

   

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Who Voted For and Against SB 145, the Pedophile Amnesty Bill (And What To Do Next to Stop This Bill)

To all California MassResistance Activists and Allies:

SB 145 is now on the Governor's Desk. We need to get this vetoed at all costs!

Contact the Governor right away, and tell him to VETO SB 145:

916-445-2841

You can email the Governor using the link below:

https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/LinkTracking.php?id=337665&eaid=334129&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgovapps.gov.ca.gov%2Fgov40mail%2F&tid=SD29C507857655

We need to go after every single elected officials who voted for this perverse bill.

We also need to urge every elected officials who voted against this bill, or who abstained (which counts as a "No" vote) to appeal to the Governor to veto this perverse bill.

Here's the breakdown:

RED: Republican BLUE: Democrat BLACK: Independent

CA State Assembly

Ayes

Aguiar-Curry,

Bauer-Kahan,

Berman,

Bloom,

Bonta,

Burke,

Carrillo,

Chiu,

Chu,

Cooper,

Daly,

Friedman,

Gabriel,

Cristina Garcia,

Gipson,

Gloria,

Holden,

Irwin,

Jones-Sawyer,

Kalra,

Kamlager,

Levine,

Low,

Mayes,

McCarty,

Medina,

Mullin,

Muratsuchi,

Nazarian,

O'Donnell,

Quirk,

Luz Rivas,

Robert Rivas,

Blanca Rubio,

Santiago,

Mark Stone,

Ting,

Weber,

Wicks,

Wood,

Rendon (Speaker of the Assembly)

Noes

Bigelow,

Boerner Horvath,

Brough,

Calderon,

Chau,

Chen,

Choi,

Cooley,

Megan Dahle,

Diep,

Flora,

Fong,

Gallagher,

Gonzalez,

Gray,

Kiley,

Lackey,

Maienschein,

Mathis,

Obernolte,

Patterson,

Ramos,

Rodriguez,

Salas,

Waldron

Abstained (Counts as a No Vote)

Arambula,

Cervantes,

Cunningham,

Eggman,

Frazier,

Eduardo Garcia,

Grayson,

Limón,

Petrie-Norris,

Quirk-Silva,

Reyes,

Smith,

Voepel

California State Senate

Ayes

Allen

Atkins,

Beall,

Bradford,

Caballero,

Durazo,

Glazer,

Lena Gonzalez,

Hertzberg,

Hill,

Jackson,

Leyva,

McGuire,

Mitchell,

Monning,

Pan,

Portantino,

Roth,

Skinner,

Stern,

Umberg,

Wieckowski,

Wiener

Noes

Bates,

Borgeas,

Chang,

Dahle,

Grove,

Melendez,

Moorlach,

Morrell,

Nielsen,

Wilk

Abstained

Archuleta,

Dodd,

Galgiani,

Hueso,

Hurtado,

Jones,

Rubio

I am urging everyone who can, contact the CA State Assembly Democrats below who voted NO on this bill, and urge them to appeal to the Governor Directly to veto this perversion.

Here are their names, and here is their contact information:

Tasha Boerner Horvath

State Capitol

Sacramento, CA 95814

Phone: (916) 319-2076

Fax: (916) 319-2176

325 Carlsbad Village Drive, Suite A-2

Carlsbad, CA 92008

Phone: (760) 434-7605

Edwin Chau

Capitol Office

State Capitol

P.O. Box 942849

Sacramento, CA 94249-0049

Tel: (916) 319-2049

Fax: (916) 319-2149

District Office:

1255 Corporate Center Dr. Ste 216

Monterey Park, CA 91754

Tel: (323) 264-4949

Fax: (323) 264-4916

Ken Cooley

Capitol Office:

State Capitol

P.O. Box 942849

Sacramento, CA 94249-0008

Tel: (916) 319-2008

Fax: (916) 319-2108

District Office:

2729 Prospect Park Drive

Suite 130

Rancho Cordova, CA 95670

Tel: (916) 464-1910

Fax: (916) 464-1915

Lorena Gonzalez

Capitol Office

State Capitol

P.O. Box 942849

Sacramento, CA 94249-0080

Tel: (916) 319-2080

Fax: (916) 319-2180

District Office:

1350 Front Street

Suite 6022

San Diego, CA 92101

Tel: 619-338-8090

Fax: 619-338-8099

Adam Gray

Capitol Office:

State Capitol

P.O. Box 942849

Sacramento, CA 94249-0021

Tel: (916) 319-2021

Fax: (916) 319-2121

District Office:

690 West 16th Street

Merced, CA 95340

Tel: (209) 726-5465

Fax: (209) 726-5469

District Office:

1010 Tenth Street, Suite 5800

Modesto, CA 95354

Tel: (209) 521-2111

Fax: (209) 521-2102

Brian Maienschein

State Capitol

Sacramento, CA 95814

Phone: (916) 319-2077

Fax: (916) 319-2177

12396 World Trade Drive, Suite 118

San Diego, CA 92128

Phone: (858) 675-0077

James Ramos

State Capitol

Sacramento, CA 95814

Phone: (916) 319-2077

Fax: (916) 319-2177

12396 World Trade Drive, Suite 118

San Diego, CA 92128

Phone: (858) 675-0077

Freddie Rodriguez

Capitol Office:

State Capitol

P.O. Box 942849

Sacramento, CA 94249-0052

Tel: (916) 319-2052

Fax: (916) 319-2152

District Office:

13160 7th Street

Chino, CA 91710

Tel: (909) 902-9606

Fax: (909) 902-9761

Rudy Salas

Capitol Office

State Capitol

P.O. Box 942849

Sacramento, CA 94249-0032

Tel: (916) 319-2032

Fax: (916) 319-2132

Bakersfield Office:

1430 Truxtun Avenue, Suite 803

Bakersfield, CA 93301

Tel: (661) 335-0302

Fax: (661) 335-0361

Hanford Office:

113 Court Street, Suite 201

Hanford, CA 93230

Tel: (559) 585-7170

Fax: (559) 585-7175

RED ALERT! CA Pedo-Amnesty Bill SB 145 Coming to a Vote -- Call Assemblymember to STOP IT NOW!

Dear California MassResistance members and allies:

I cannot believe it has become so dark and dank in the halls of Sacramento.

A terrible piece of legislation, SB 145, passed out of the State Senate last year, and made it as far as the State Assembly Appropriations Committee.

If this legislation passes and becomes law, it would allow homosexuals to prey on youths, have sex with them, and then be able to avoid registering as sex offenders.

This is nothing short of disgusting. The pretended reasons for this legislation is "equity", per openly gay LGBT activist State Senator Scott Weiner. Under current law, a man who has sex with a minor of the opposite sex, if the age difference between the two is less than ten years and the sexual encounter is "consensual" can avoid registering on the sex offender registry.

In contrast, homosexuals who have sex with a minor engage in anal or oral sex, and therefore do not enjoy any such safeguard. These are the clear-cut, technical explanations for this bill is all about. The real consequences, of course, is that men can prey on adolescent boys for sex, and then they can get out of registering as sex offenders by claiming "Well, the sex was consensual."

Here's more information on this terrible bill, and what MassResistance has been able to accomplish so far. Click here.

This bill is nothing short of "pedophile" or "predator amnesty." This is no good. It needs to be stopped at all costs.

This is nothing short of disgusting. Nothing short of evil, and that is saying a lot considering how bad it has gotten in the halls of Sacramento, in the state legislature.

There is still time for us to stop this terrible piece of legislation.

We need everyone to contact their state assemblymembers ASAP.

You can find your state assemblymember using the link below:

http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

The link that comes up will direct you to your assemblymember's website, and the contact information will be listed there.

Above all, PLEASE contact the Speaker of the Assembly Anthony Rendon, and tell him not to give the bill a floor vote!

Capitol Office
State Capitol
Room 219
Sacramento, CA 95814
Tel: (916) 319-2063
Fax: (916) 319-2163

District Office:
4909 Lakewood Blvd., Suite 400
Lakewood, CA 90712
Tel: (562) 529-3250
Fax: (562) 529-3255

CA MassResistance Derails Pro-LGBT Pedophile Bill SB 145

MassResistance derails horrible bill in California Legislature that would allow homosexual adults to sexually prey on children without registering as sex offenders

Part of LGBT movement’s larger goals: Repealing age of sexual consent laws.

Other pro-family groups seemed afraid to take this on.

June 21, 2020

 California State Assemblyman Al Maratsuchi (left) gets the message loud and clear from California MassResistance at his "town hall" event in his district.

A huge nightmare for parents is that their young teenage boys might be lured into homosexuality by “gay” older youth and adult males whom they might encounter. We have seen this first hand from anguished parents who have come to us over the years with their stories. The “chicken hawk” – a homosexual man who seduces boys – is part of the homosexual vocabulary. As far back as 1972, the homosexual movement called for the repeal of age of [sexual] consent laws.

Homosexual adults mingling with children

Unfortunately, it’s no longer in the shadows. State sanctioned events that allow adult homosexuals to mingle with teenagers (and younger children) has become a disturbing trend.

Public schools routinely steer young teenage boys (and girls) who are “unsure of their sexuality” to gay-straight alliance“clubs, annual LGBT youth dances, and so-called “Youth Pride” events that all have hideous homosexual men involved (often as official chaperones). The results are often tragic.

 An all too common sight at a "Youth Pride" event in Boston. [MassResistance photo]

Merging underage youth with adults has now even become an official part of the annual adult “Gay Pride” events in many cities. For example, last year:

LA Pride and the Los Angeles LGBT Center are once again hosting the FREE Youth Pride Dance for folks 24 and younger to kick-off LA Pride Weekend 2019! This circus-themed party will include food, drinks (non-alcoholic), giveaways, and so much more!

Frightening attempt to change the law in California

The LGBT movement in California is now attempting to push the envelope even further. This session, openly “gay” State Sen. Scott Wiener introduced a frightening bill, SB 145, in the Legislature.

Currently in California, if an adult (age 18 or over) has heterosexual relations with a teenager (age 14-17) and the age difference between them is less than 10 years, then the adult is not required to be a registered sex offender. But if the adult has homosexual relations with a teenager, then he is required to be registered as a sex offender. This rightfully recognizes the depraved and destructive character of homosexual sex (both physical and mental) and how it affects a child much more profoundly.

This disparity has long angered the homosexual movement, which has always been obsessed with getting access to young teenagers – and with being seen as normal.

SB 145 would eliminate that distinction for homosexual sex. Thus, adult homosexuals could prey on young teenagers sexually – as happens so much – and not be considered sex offenders. Many people have called it the “Sex Offender Freedom” Act.

Wiener represents one of the most LGBT districts in the country: the entire city and county of San Francisco, CA. He is one of the most vocal members of California’s LGBT Legislative Caucus and aggressively pushes “groundbreaking” LGBT legislation.

 Openly “gay” State Senator Scott Wiener (left) and “friend” at a recent San Francisco Gay Pride Parade.

The bill started out very strong …

Wiener introduced SB 145 in January 2019, at the beginning of the current two-year legislative session. It began in the State Senate, one of the most pro-LGBT in the country. The bill quickly gained momentum.

… And MassResistance jumped into the battle

This is another one of those situations where various pro-family groups raised the alarm and complained – but MassResistance was actually on the ground with people taking direct, confrontational action. And it paid off.

To start, California MassResistance began a full-court press on Sen. Wiener’s office with letters, emails, phone calls, etc., from across the state to urge him to stop the bill. The California MassResistance team in his district even attended Sen Wiener’s town hall event in San Francisco to personally communicate to him their outrage.

But early on, California MassResistance could see that the best strategy was not to focus on the Senate, but to begin pressuring the State Assembly (similar to the House of Representatives in other states). In March, April, and May 2019, California MassResistance activists throughout the state targeted key Assembly Members in their districts. They even showed up at the Assembly Speaker’s town hall event in his district.

 California MassResistance activists at town hall event in Gardenia, CA.

 Activist about to enter Assemblyman Freddie Rodriguez' local town hall event.

 At town hall event for Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva in Orange County.

For most of those Assembly members, it is rare that pro-family conservatives in California actually show up and demonstrate their fierce opposition to a bill. The legislators are not used to it at all. It clearly had a pretty big effect.

As expected, SB 145 sailed through three Senate committees. On May 28, 2019 it passed the full Senate 25-3.

From there, SB 145 went to the State Assembly. California MassResistance stepped up the pressure even more, and things quickly started to slow down for SB 145.

 At an outdoor legislative town hall event.

 We also distributed information sheets about SB 145 to people who came to these events.

On July 10, it was approved by the Assembly’s Public Service Committee and was sent to the Appropriations Committee, where it basically ground to a halt. There was a committee hearing set for August 30, 2019 that was postponed. Nothing further has happened with it.

Right now, during the continued COVID-19 situation, the California Legislature is moving at pretty much a snail’s pace. And constitutionally, the entire session must end for good on August 31, 2020.

It’s looking now like SB 145 likely won’t be passed. But MassResistance is continuing to pressure the Appropriations Committee – and the rest of the Assembly – not to let adult homosexuals prey on children. We have a feeling they’re getting pretty tired of us. And we like it that way!

But make no mistake – without strong pro-family pressure, this bill would probably have been passed and signed into law last year. MassResistance will continue to be vigilant and on the ground ready for action!

   

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