2026-04-03

California’s “Victory” Exposes Apostasy of Natural Rights

The cited article reports that a federal judge ordered California to pay $4.5 million in attorneys’ fees to the Thomas More Society, a self-described Catholic legal advocacy firm, after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked California state policies that prohibited schools from informing parents about their children’s claimed transgender identities. The judge found California guilty of “litigation intransigence.” Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society stated the ruling “sends an unmistakable message to state governments and school districts across the country: If you trample the constitutional rights of parents, you will pay for it — literally.”

This case is presented as a triumph for parental rights and a rebuke to state overreach. Yet, from the perspective of integral Catholic faith, it represents a profound and damning compromise—a battle fought on purely naturalistic, constitutional grounds that utterly ignores the supernatural order, the exclusive rights of God and His Church, and the true nature of the parental duty. The “victory” is a symptom of the apostasy that has consumed the post-conciliar world, where even those who style themselves as “Catholic” defenders reduce the immutable law of God to the shifting sands of civil rights jurisprudence.