ROOKE: Gavin Newsom Talking About ‘Godson’ Proves He’s Not Qualified For Anything

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s public defense of his radical transgender policies creates a series of grave moral problems that, taken together, render him unfit to hold public office.

Newsom told the New York Times’ Ezra Klein on Dec. 10 that his pro-transgender policies as governor come “from his heart” because he has a transgender “godson.” He also acknowledged that his views do not reflect about 80 percent of Americans who are against biological males being allowed into female sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms. This admission alone should make him ineligible ever to be elected to public office. After all, the entire purpose of government is to represent the people, and if you are governing for a radical, often violent minority, that is disqualifying.

California Governor Gavin Newsom:

“I want to see trans kids… There’s no governor that’s done more pro trans legislation than I have.”

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— America (@america) December 11, 2025

However, there is another equally disturbing issue with his interview. Here, Newsom claims to be a Godparent to a godson. He is reportedly referring to Nats Getty, born Natalia Williams Getty, who announced she was transgender in 2021 and was even married to a transgender activist. In the interview, Newsom cited his personal connection to this godchild as motivation for his pro-transgender policies. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)

What is disturbing is that Newsom is taking something (being a Godparent), which is wholly and fully part of Christian doctrine, and bastardizing it to fit a demonic ideology. Newsom never claims to be a Christian, although he did say that Charlie Kirk is responsible for forming his personal views on Christianity. Still, being a Godparent is a serious responsibility in the eyes of God.

In the Catholic Church, for example, in the Rite of Baptism, the Godparent promises, before God and the Church, to help the child “grow in the faith” and to “keep God’s commandments as Christ taught us.” We are required to answer “yes” to these statements before the baptism can take place or be valid. Not just that, but Godparents are required to step in and guide their godchildren in the faith should their parents fail or become unable to do it.

Affirming a child’s gender dysphoria, facilitating social transition, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or mutilating surgeries is the direct opposite of that duty. These interventions sterilize the child, sever healthy body parts, and lock the child into a lifelong medical patienthood. It also gravely teaches the child to despise the body God gave her. To use the sacred office of Godparent as the emotional justification for enshrining this harm into state law is a sacrilegious inversion of the Godparent’s vocation. A man who publicly perverts the very spiritual relationship he swore before the altar to uphold cannot be trusted with any office of public trust.

Christ’s warning in Matthew is unambiguous: “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”

By boasting that his heart compels him to sign more pro-trans laws than any other governor because of his “godson,” Newsom gives public scandal on a massive scale. He teaches millions of children that rejecting one’s God-given sex is not only permissible but heroic. This is the very sin Christ condemns. (ROOKE: Teacher Accidentally Makes Best Case For Why Public Schools Are Failing Students)

Christian theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas, taught that the ruler must order his affections to the common good, not allow private affection to override the natural law. Newsom explicitly says his policies flow “from the heart” because of one child he loves. That is the very definition of allowing private sentiment to trump objective truth and the good of all children. An elected official who boasts that he will sacrifice the bodies and souls of an entire generation on the altar of his feelings for one confused girl has abandoned the virtue of prudence required for governance.

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