AB 2943 bans books, conferences, counseling advocating Muslim, Jewish, and Christian views on gender and sexual orientation The California Assembly approved a bill today 50-18 that tells churches and other with traditional beliefs about gender and sexual orientation that advocating for their views could get them sued. AB 2943, declares…
A Bakersfield judge denied the State of California’s request to force a Christian wedding cake designer, Cathy Miller, to create a custom cake to help a lesbian couple celebrate their wedding. To do so, said Superior Court Judge David Lampe, “would do violence” to Cathy’s free speech rights protected by the…
The California Family Council is helping organize a prayer rally next week for a Kern County Christian Baker, who’s bakery could be closed if she doesn’t start baking wedding cakes for same-sex wedding ceremonies. The State of California is taking Cathy Miller to court demanding she either design wedding cakes…
A defiant Fresno University professor decided to settle a freedom of speech lawsuit against him earlier this month filed by the student president of the college’s Students for Life Club. Last spring, Assistant Public Health Professor Greg Thatcher was caught on video telling pro-life leader Bernadette Tasy that the pro-life sidewalk…
In a stunning decision earlier this month, a California state judge in Riverside struck down a 2015 law, AB 775, because it violated the free speech protections, found in the California Constitution, of nearly 90 Pro-Life Pregnancy Care Centers through out the state. Then yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a…
SACRAMENTO – In a shocking disregard for the privacy rights of seniors and constitutional freedoms of speech and religion, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 219 yesterday. While no doubt well-intentioned, the bill from California state senator Scott Weiner (D-San Francisco) will inflict severe penalties on long-term care center…
Last month, Canada passed a law that threatens anyone refusing to use transgender pronouns with fines and jail time. Not to be outdone, a state senator from San Francisco has a similar proposal, SB 219, here in California nearing final approval that is getting almost no attention. Greg Burt,…
A college pro-life club just north of San Diego filed a lawsuit against its university last week for failing to equitably distribute mandatory student fees, consequently violating the club’s right to free speech and equality under the law. According to the lawsuit, Cal-State San Marcos officials refused to approve a…
A Fresno State University college professor is in hot water after he, and other students he recruited, erased and defaced pro-life sidewalk chalk messages of the campus’s Students for Life club. Now he is facing a federal lawsuit for violating the free speech rights of club president Bernadette Tasy and…
In the first of a series of episodes recorded in Washington, DC at the offices of Alliance Defending Freedom, Johnny and Jonathan talk to ADF attorney Matt Bowman about the legal challenges to the 2015 California law, AB 775, which forces pro-life Pregnancy Care Centers to provide abortion information. We…