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California: Reclaim the Dream

California faces a wide range of political issues: a government whose spending is out of control and whose only solution is to become more aggressive when picking the pockets of productive workers, courts that overturn the will of the people when dealing with our most fundamental institutions, and a staggering disregard for the educational needs of our children.

If California is to preserve its heritage and reclaim its dream, then we must hold accountable those politicians whose greed and ambition have driven them to sell out hard-working, tax-paying citizens for the 30 pieces of silver offered by those who want to destroy our way of life and place ourselves and our posterity in financial and spiritual bondage — indeed, we must hold them accountable by removing them from office, reversing their policies, and applying any and all legal sanctions available for dereliction of duty, fraud, misrepresentation, and refusing to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America and the California State Constitution.

At the top of this page you will find links to resources concerning these issues; below you will find additional links and the first in a series of news articles and commentaries dealing with these issues.

Proposition 8 Web Site

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Newsroom

With great interest I watched as a Catholic priest was questioned vigorously about his allegiance to the pope and was impressed by his unwillingness to abandon Catholic doctrine simply because it is, at times, inconvenient. The following letter was the result of that experience; it was printed in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune on April 16, 2009.

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I am LDS — and I gratefully acknowledge the courage of the pope and all Catholic clerics who have the intellectual honesty and spiritual insight to follow his lead in the areas of abortion and gay marriage, and to have those beliefs codified in the law. And to Catholics who refuse to follow the pope’s lead or who otherwise reject Catholic authority or socially-inconvenient portions of Catholic doctrine, I would simply ask by what authority do you disregard the pope or essential doctrines of the church?

Finally, to those who claim religion has no place in the public square, I would commend the words of our Founders, who clearly understood the connection between Christian faith and the vitality of our political institutions — beliefs reiterated by our greatest presidents, including Lincoln, Kennedy, and Reagan. The Founders feared a state-sponsored religious sect or organized church — not Christianity.

Faith and values — these form the bedrock of our liberty and divinely-inspired Constitution. Disregard them and we become nothing more than a European has-been or banana republic destined to fail. Maintaining them and thus preserving what God has given us will require the coordinated efforts of all Christians, including Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals, and Mormons.

William Mason

In a show of brazen arrogance, Sean Penn said the following while accepting his Oscar for his role in Milk, a film that praises and promotes homosexuality: “I think it's a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect on their great shame and their shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.”

I supported Proposition 8, and will continue to support any and all efforts to limit the definition of marriage to a union between one man and one woman. My response to Mr. Penn was published in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune on Thursday, March 5, 2009.

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Regarding actor Sean Penn:

I have followed the advice you gave as you accepted the Oscar for best actor and have therefore reconsidered my support for the ban on gay marriage, for which you said I should be ashamed.

And I am ashamed.

I am ashamed that 45 percent of Californians support gay marriage. I am ashamed that public schools cannot teach that marriage between a man and a woman is the only legitimate union between two people who wish to raise children, that large segments of our society are foolish enough to believe that two gay people raising a child is as good as a heterosexual couple raising a child.

I am ashamed of a Hollywood that openly supports immorality and ridicules traditional Christian values. And I am ashamed for you because you dare to frame the issue as a civil rights issue.

And, in spite of your stated delusions to the contrary, my children and their descendants for generations to come will be grateful that I stood for what is right.

William Mason