\t\t\t\tInstead of passing a budget, the California Legislature spent their last day in session before the weekend break debating a Father’s Day resolution written so as to offend fathers. <\/p>\n
Christine Kehoe, the San Diego lesbian who ran for the Assembly after losing two bids for the Congress, wrote a resolution singling out several groups of people for praise – gay fathers, adoptive fathers, grandfathers who father grandchildren, and unwed fathers – but failed to recognize the good, old-fashioned man who marries the mother of his children before they’re born and stays married to her as long as she’s willing. The resolution was so contentious<\/a> that only one Republican could bring himself to vote for it:<\/p>\n The final vote on HR 32 was 41-22, with 17 abstentions. All but one Republican — Keith Richman of Northridge — voted against the resolution, which was introduced by Assemblywoman Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego, one of four openly gay Assembly members.<\/p>\n Critics complained that HR 32 did not specifically single out “traditional fathers” — using the term “biological” fathers instead — and that the resolution went too far by citing categories of non-traditional fathers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now what do you suppose would happen if the next time the Legislature wanted to honor mothers or gays, the Republicans wrote a resolution honoring those who smoke crack, turn tricks, serve time in prison, rape or abuse children, just in the name of being “inclusive?” <\/p>\n This kind of legislative trolling is among the main reasons I hate California Democrats, even though I was a Democrat for 30 years. Some things are not meant to be political, and the Father’s Day Resolution is one of them.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Instead of passing a budget, the California Legislature spent their last day in session before the weekend break debating a Father’s Day resolution written so as to offend fathers. Christine Kehoe, the San Diego lesbian who ran for the Assembly after losing two bids for the Congress, wrote a resolution singling out several groups of … Continue reading “Legislative trolling”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Er","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n