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November 2025

  

"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief ... the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved ...

according to his promise we are waiting for the new heavens and a new earth

in which righteousness dwells." -2 Peter 3:10ff 

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Western sunset as viewed from Moreno Valley, Riverside County, November 30, 2025.

-Photo InterChurch News

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COMMENTARY: 

No on Prop 50. Help Save America. 

Remember the second failed recall attempt on Governor Gavin Newsom in 2020? Frustrating, right? Distrustful of electronic voting machines, you say? How better off California would have been -- without reprobate-minded Newsom at the helm. Do you agree? 

Fast forward five years.  Today you can send a recall message to Newsom by voting NO on Prop 50 -- his roughshod attempt to amend our California Constitution. Newsom wants to stack congressional Democrats in D.C. by redistricting California, effectively under-representing Republican and Independent voters for three elections.

Newsom says he is 'fighting fire with fire' with redistricting in Texas. Newsom actually said this at a press conference with firefighters in the background. Newsom is the last person in California the words 'fight fire with fire' should come from. Remember the L.A. Fires -- his unprecedented failure in California public safety.  

Oh. Remember Newsom's Covid-19 2020-21 lockdowns: public schools closed for the year -- against the Center for Disease Control recommendation to reopen public schools in Fall 2020. California's public health designated certain taxpaying citizens essential -- or non-essential employees.

Non-essentials were ORDERD to stay home. Businesses were ORDERED shut. Malls were ghost towns. 

The California lockdown extended well-beyond 'bend the curve.' Newsom closed churches, synagogues and mosques, beaches and playgrounds -- limited funerals to ten persons, six-feet apart -- yet 'essential' Home Depot and cannibas dispensaries remained in business. 

Keep in mind California's homeless population is still wandering lost in public squares -- dying alone. Where is that multi-billion dollar bullet train?  Newsom promotes taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal, undocumented immigrants while his Party allowed a 'come one, come all' illicit open borders policy and continues to promote sanctuary cities to undermine federal law enforcement. 

Vote NO today on Prop 50 to oppose (Catholic) Newsom's approval of minors getting abortions without parental consent. Attorney General Rob Bonta sues school districts in order to 'protect' children in public schools to privately transition their birth gender, change pronouns and force teachers, students and parents to play into the child's gender dysphoria. 

When will the Catholic Church sanction heretical Governor Gavin Newsom for his anti-Catholic pro-abortion, pro-homosexual 'families' and pro-child gender-mutilation endorsements upon our society? 

Do you want this mad legislation virus to spread outside California? 

Vote NO on Prop 50. Help save America.  

"The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know over what they stumble."

-Proverbs 4:19

Credits: Proposed Prop 50 Districts illustration, November 4 screeenshot Fox News; San Diego ballot box photo, InterChurch News & Resource Guide

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October 2025

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AT THE ZOO

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

God made the beasts of earth after their kind ... and everything

that creeps on the ground ... and God saw that it was good."

-Genesis 1:1, 25

      

"By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God,

so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible."

-Hebrews 11:3

--Photos InterChurch News @ San Diego Zoo

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September 2025

 

Cloud formations (above) over San Jacinto Mountains in Riverside

as seen looking southeast from Temecula at 2 p.m., September 4, 2025.

 

Rising moon at twilight as seen looking southeast from March Air Field area, September 4, 2025.

Blood Moon expected September 7-8 -- but will not be visible in America's hemisphere. 

-Photos InterChurch News

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August 2025

  

Natasha Johnson (Republican, above) former mayor of the City of Lake Elsinore standing with fellow elected city officials, has won the 63rd State Assembly District special election campaign. Johnson was showing 53.5% vote count advantage over candidate Chris Shoults (Democrat) with a 46.5% vote count as of August 29th. -Photo courtesy of Johnson's campaign photo gallery website.

ELECTION UPDATE: Representing a state assembly district located entirely in portions of western, southwestern Riverside County, Natasha Johnson (Rep, 34,738 votes) is projected to win the 63rd State Assembly District special election of Tuesday, August 26th. As of  Thursday, August 28th, there were 65,007 total culumative processed ballots, 95 estimated ballots remaining and 625 ballots left to cure -- per the Secretary of State's 'Unprocessed Ballots Status' website -- making it mathmatically impossible for challenger Chris Shoults (Dem, 30,181 votes) to overcome the 4,557 vote deficit. The election results will be certified by the Secretary of State October 3rd. 

8.29.2025 (Revised 8/30/2025)

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VOTE! IT MATTERS.

Special Election Today 

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

63rd State Assembly District -- Riverside County

Region includes Canyon Lake, Corona (partial), Eastvale (partial), Lake Elsinore (partial), Menifee, Norco, Riverside (partial), Temescal Valley, Woodcrest. 

(seat vacated by Republican Bill Essayli appointed as the acting U.S. Attorney for Central District of California)

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Candidate Statements/Endorsements

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Natasha Johnson (Republican)

Chris Shoults (Democrat)

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Drop off, Vote Centers (Polls) close 8 p.m. 

-- Vote Center Locations -- 

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View Election Results

'Official Live Streaming' of ballot-counting

 

PHOTO: 'Storage of counted ballots' at 10:47 p.m., Tuesday, August 26th. -Screenshot Riverside County Registar of Voters live feed

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July 2025

Photo Essay: LA Fires update

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Six months after L.A. Fires

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Malibu, Pacific Palisades rebuild ...

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... little-to-none

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-Photos InterChurch News

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June 2025

'Save Girls' Sports' rally, press conference ...

      

... makes case to CIF for Title IX protection

About 60 southern California female athletes, parents, teachers and supporters held a 'Save Girl's Sports' rally (Photo: Top) and press conference Friday, June 20th. 9 a.m. at Westin South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa outside from where California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Executive Committee were scheduled for a 10 a.m. meeting. California Family Council (CFC) sponsored the event. Notable speakers at the press conference included Ryan Starling (Photo: L), whose daughter Taylor and a cross country teammate filed a civil federal lawsuit against Martin Luther King High School and the Riverside Unified School District, Chino Valley Unified School Board president and candidate for California State Superintendent Sonja Shaw (Photo: Center), CFC Outreach Director Sophia Lorey, Advocates for Faith and Freedom Senior Legal Counsel Julianne Fleischer, and former Jurupa Valley High School physical education teacher Jessica Tapia. Tapia won a $350,000 settlement in her lawsuit against Jurupa's school district after being fired for refusing to follow -- as a Christian -- it's 'gender-ideology policies.' Tapia is also the inspiration for the Teachers Don't Lie movement.

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"You've broken down the female athletes of California. Their dreams of being first in CIF -- broken.

Their desire to be in privacy in their changing space -- broken. Their desire to to not be bullied

because they believe in biological truth -- broken."

-Jessica Tapia

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The same speakers and more then addressed the 10 a.m. CIF Executive Committee meeting (R) in a banquet room during public comment citing alleged Title IX violations of girls' rights. Current CIF policy (Bylaw 300 D.) and the State of California (AB 1266, Jan. 1, 2014) allow biological males (XY) -- who self-identify as females -- to compete in girls' sports and use girls' locker room facilities (safe spaces). Lorey presented the CIF Executive Committee with a 'Save Girls' Sports' binder containing 20,074 petition signatures 'demanding CIF return to policies that align with federal Title IX law, laws designed to protect equal opportunities for girls.'

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"This is not about hate, it's about justice ...

let girls play, let girls win, let girls be safe."

-Sophia Lorey

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A few of the Committee members seated around a horseshoe shaped seating arrangement nodded in agreement as speakers presented their arguments for over an hour. Alloted two minutes each for public comment -- 25 speakers cited the consequences of CIF Bylaw 300 D. and State law AB 1266 on girls' sports including female athletes losing placement in competitions, awards, scholarships, emotional damage including girls who opt to change clothes in their cars due to lack of locker room privacy.

"I'm here today," said Celeste, a high school varsity-level athlete, "as athletes like myself have endured humiliation through the intrusion of her privacy ... with a boy in the locker room. The watchful eyes of the transgender athlete has robbed us of our dignity ... others have resorted to changing in their cars." 

Julianne Fleischer, Senior Legal Counsel wtih Advocates for Faith and Freedom, a pro-bono firm based in Murrieta, California, said to the Committee, "Allowing biological males to compete in female categories is not only unfair, it is demeaning, it's dangerous and it's fundamentally discriminatory against women and girls. This isn't equality," she said, "this is preferential treatment masquerading as inclusion." 

Fleischer said CIF's Bylaw 300 D. policy is a "clear violation of federal law and a betrayal of the promise of fairness for women in sports."

Offering an olive branch to CIF Committee, Fleischer said her firm -- which represented Tapia in her $350,000 lawsuit settlement victory against Jurupa Valley U.S.D. -- is "willing to work with you, to sit down with your attorneys ... to come up with solutions that are consistent with federal law ... this is an offer to come to the table and talk."

Moms and dads spoke on behalf of their daughters' experiences with transgenders in girls' sports before the Executive Committee. Here are two examples:

• Bridget, a mom to a high school track and field athlete daughter in San Luis Obispo County, said, "My daughter changes in the car ... for her own safety, her own religious reasons to not go into the locker room and change ... that is what you have forced her to do ... I reject a California law that forces a gender ideology on me, on my daughter ... we are women, we are female and I pray that you acknowledge that." 
• Randy Starling, the father of Taylor Starling -- a high school cross country varsity athlete bumped down to the JV team after clocking in behind a transgender in a race and party to a lawsuit filed against Riverside U.S.D. -- gave a brief history of his daughter as a triplet, born at 29 weeks, three pounds, "fighting for their lives" with breathing tubes. He said "I will do anything for them. She earned her spot ... captain of the team. I'm seeing my daughter be called a Nazi just because she's standing up for fairness and equity. I know [what] you guys have constantly said about transgenders and suicide. What about the girls? What about what they're facing and the psychological damages they're going through? You have team sports coming up. You have cross country. You have volleyball coming up. Please make the right decisions for these girls. I'm asking you as a father. Please."  

The Committee had voted to accommodate nine more speakers after the 30-minute public comment time alloted in the agenda. The 'Save Girls' Sports' final rally speaker, identified himself as David, pointed towards a girl in the rally audience, told her to turnaround and said to the Committee, "If you missed what the girls' shirt [said], it said "CIF: Can't Identify Females."  He said, "Unfortunately, this is a policy that you folks are putting forth today ... it is the agenda to erase sex, to erase female sex, to erase sex-based rights of females ... we ask you to stand with us ...help us fight."

"Thank you for your time," said CIF President-Elect and Superintendent of Monrovia U.S.D., Dr. Paula Hart Rodas (Photo: R, 2nd from L) as rally members exited peacefully -- resolutely. 

-Photos InterChurch News

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