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Opponents of California transgender bill sue state officials over tossed petition signatures

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SACRAMENTO, CA, March 28, 2014  – The backers of a failed statewide petition to place California’s controversial new  transgender law  on the ballot for a public vote have sued the secretary of state and a number of county officials demanding an explanation as to why more than 131,000 signatures were  thrown out  as “invalid” – including the signature of one of the petition’s sponsors. The law in question allows students at California’s public schools to use the bathroom, changing room and other gender-based facilities of their choice, regardless of physical sex.  It also allows boys to participate in girls’ sports and other activities and vice versa, as long as the student says he or she “identifies” as the opposite sex. Privacy for All Students (PFAS), a group based in Chino, collected more than 600,000 signatures on a petition to force the law on the ballot for a chance at repeal by voters.  Only 504,760 were required to force a referendum, but state officials threw out mor

California bishop defunds non-profit whose president supports abortion, same-sex ‘marriage’

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Image via Wikipedia SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, March 9, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The Diocese of Sacramento has withheld funds from a non-profit organization whose leader publicly supports abortion and same-sex marriage. Diocesan spokesman Kevin Eckery said that Bishop Jaimo Soto personally approved the decision to defund  Francis House Center  because of the outspoken stance of its leader - United Methodist Rev. Faith Whitmore - in opposition to Catholic teaching on key moral issues. Whitmore  told  Sacramento’s News 10-TV that a priest personally explained to her in January that the diocese would no longer collect funds for the organization because of her strong “support for Planned Parenthood , because I believe that Planned Parenthood is the foremost educational health care provider to women, especially to poor women.” While serving as pastor of St. Mark’s United Methodist Church , she  conducted same-sex “marriage” ceremonies  in defiance of  her denomination’s ban on doing so