On November 9, California Governor Gavin Newsom called out Vice President JD Vance for allowing the poor to go hungry. He invoked the Bible to make his case. He made his comments to Jake Tapper on the CNN show, “State of the Union.”
The Daily Beast, a left-wing media outlet, said, “Newsom Rips New Catholic Vance for Denying Food to Poor.” It noted that Newsom was a “Tried-and-tested Catholic,” and Vance was a “newbie” Catholic.
What prompted Newsom to lash out at Vance was the suspension of SNAP benefits, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. He never mentioned that SNAP has run out of money. With good reason: for 15 consecutive times, the Democrats in Congress voted to keep the government closed. Only now are they back in the game.
This kind of bickering is commonplace among politicians, but what is different this time is that Newsom brought religion into the mix, essentially saying he is the model Catholic, not Vance.
“I mean, Old Testament, New Testament,” he told Tapper. “What’s the fundamental thing that connects every—I mean, from John to Matthew to Proverbs? It’s this notion of hunger, feeding the poor, the sick, the tired…it’s not an option, it’s central to advancing God’s will.”
The Daily Beast is wrong. Newsom is not a “Tried-and-tested Catholic.” Even he admits he is not. In fact, he calls himself a “secular Catholic.” Those must be the type who play bingo in a Church basement while rarely going upstairs.
There is good reason why Newsom is not a real Catholic. Real Catholics do not pretend to be interested in the welfare of children, as Newsom does, and then champion child abuse in the womb. Mr. “Cultural Catholic” has never found an abortion he couldn’t justify, and loves to brag how he is the strongest advocate of abortion in the nation. In October, he took $140 million of California taxpayer’s money and gave it to Planned Parenthood, the behemoth abortion mill.
Newsom is shameless. He even invokes God’s name to justify the killing of innocent unborn children. In 2022, after Mississippi and Oklahoma passed restrictive abortion laws, he promoted billboards in those states that wrapped his support for abortion in Scripture. “Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no greater commandment than these.” Mark 12:31.
Other children who are not safe from Newsom’s policies are those who are sexually confused and seek to undergo sex-reassignment surgery—the governor argues that these minors should be allowed to go through with this madness over the objections of their parents. Removing the genitals of children is something he finds humane.
Was it also humane when he killed his own mother? The night before he and a few others put her down in 2002, Newsom was so kind as to make her dinner. He gave her hard-boiled eggs. He finished her knowing that assisted suicide was against Californian law (it wasn’t legalized until 2016).
Now, of course, Newsom is lecturing Vance about what the Bible has to say about caring for the “sick.” Evidently, in his book caring for the sick includes killing them.
If Newsom had any guts, he would tell us what he really thinks about Catholicism and stop repairing to it to justify his passion for killing the innocent. But he is not man enough to do so. That’s what we would expect from a “cultural Catholic.” Bingo anyone?
