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A last-minute California budget hearing this Monday aims to push $26 million for sex-rejecting interventions on minors. ✔️Announced before a major holiday weekend. ✔️Stacked panels - Johanna Olsen- Kennedy, anyone? ✔️One-sided public testimony. Members of California’s LGBTQ legislative caucus and allied activist groups are taking over a California state budget hearing on Monday afternoon to demand $26 million of taxpayer funds for sex-rejection procedures for minors. They have dredged up no longer valid US HHS online pages from 2023 to claim puberty blockers are reversible. To push the dangerous suicide trope they use a 2024 Trevor Project assessment of self reported suicide ideation to falsely imply sex-rejecting procedures or social transition prevent suicide. This surprise hearing is this Monday afternoon, complete with stacked with trans activists public comment and one-sided panels of "experts" including disgraced LA Children's Hospital pediatrician Johanna Olsen- Kennedy - who took millions from the Federal Government for puberty blockade research and then hid the results. This event was not made public until the day before Easter weekend in order to suppress dissent. California’s leadership is tying itself to one the greatest medical scandals of all time. The question is whether the public is willing to let them do it without scrutiny.

PRISM training making you choose between your job and your convictions? You don’t have to. Teachers, learn your rights. Register for CFC’s webinar here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

PRESS RELEASE: Supreme Court Strikes Down Colorado Counseling Ban, and Almost Certainly Kills California’s Ban SACRAMENTO, CA — In a landmark 8-1 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Colorado’s ban on sexual orientation and gender identity talk therapy is unconstitutional. Justice Gorsuch wrote that laws restricting change counseling for minors violate the First Amendment’s protections on free speech. In Chiles v. Salazar, the Court held that Colorado’s law “regulates speech based on viewpoint,” impermissibly allowing certain perspectives while censoring others. Writing for the majority, Justice Gorsuch emphasized that “the First Amendment stands as a bulwark against any effort to prescribe an orthodoxy of views,” warning that laws targeting disfavored ideas represent “an egregious assault” on free speech. This ruling has immediate implications for California’s SB 1172, signed in 2012. This law, like Colorado’s, bans licensed counselors from engaging in talk therapy that helps minors reduce unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion and associated behaviors. “Today’s decision is a major victory for free speech and for every American who believes the government has no place in private conversations between a counselor and a client,” said Jonathan Keller, President and CEO of the California Family Council. “California’s attempt to dictate which viewpoints are allowed in the counseling room is ideological control, not protection.” At the heart of the Court’s decision is a simple but profound truth: speech does not lose its constitutional protection simply because it occurs in a therapeutic setting. As the Court noted, Counselor Kaley Chiles’s “speech does not become ‘conduct’ just because a government says so,” rejecting the idea that labeling conversations as “treatment” gives the state authority to censor them. California Family Council leaders warn that laws like SB 1172 represent a dangerous form of government overreach, one that intrudes on deeply personal, confidential conversations about identity, religious belief, family, and human flourishing. “Counseling bans are a deeply misguided attempt to regulate the way people pursue happiness,” said Keller. “It’s shameful for government censors to insert themselves into the middle of a private counseling session and decide which goals are allowed to be discussed.” The Court also highlighted the broader danger of allowing government agents to dictate acceptable viewpoints, noting that history is filled with examples of authorities using speech regulations to “suppress minorities” and silence “unpopular ideas.” “Not everyone experiencing same-sex attraction or gender incongruence wants to base their identity and behavior on these subjective feelings,” said Keller. “This Easter week, billions of Christians around the world will celebrate Jesus’ victory on the cross and His resurrection from death. Today’s ruling is a good reminder that true freedom comes from faith in Christ, not from government bureaucrats ‘protecting’ people from messages they disagree with.” This ruling sets a powerful precedent that most certainly dooms California’s own ban on change counseling. According to constitutional expert Dean Broyles, president of the National Center for Law and Policy, he expects a legal challenge soon. “Today’s 8-1 ruling in Chiles v. Salazar is a landmark decision highlighting our nation’s commitment to robust First Amendment rights,” Dean explained. “Colorado’s ban on change-allowing talk therapy for minors was patterned on and is nearly identical to California’s harmful 2012 ban. If Colorado’s ban on voluntary non-aversive talk therapy is an unconstitutional infringement on speech, so is California’s SB 1172.  As a constitutional attorney, if California doesn’t voluntarily repeal 1172, I look forward to a soon-to-be legal challenge that ends the unlawful ban in California.”

Jonathan Keller, President, California Family Council: “...we need to keep fighting as long as it takes to end abortion state by state.” @KentuckyRTL, @addiawuchner, @March_for_Life, @georgiabulletin, @davidbereit, @cafamily, @JonathanKeller, @RyanBomberger

@WomenAreReals @ErinFriday75490 @mellow_vello @aVeryGoodTyrone @SashaAguilar69 @SophiaSLorey @asmcastillo @bourne_beth2345 @megynkelly @EmmiPinkhurst @Sac_TERF_Ca Yes!!! x.com/CAFamily/statu…

🗣️ Calling all Terven! CA Democrats are blocking AB 1998 from even getting a hearing. They don’t want to go on record against female-only bathrooms & locker rooms. Let’s make them. ☎️ Call Rules Chair Pacheco: 916-319-2800 916-319-2064 (Call both) Script: “Hi, my name is __. I’m asking Chair Pacheco to refer AB 1998 to committee so it can receive a proper hearing.”

CAUSE is proud to stand with California Family Council in opposition to AB 1803. We appreciate fighting beside dedicated warriors for truth and fairness from across the political spectrum. We must not lose our ability to advocate for reality due to the chilling impacts of “anti-hate speech” defined by those in power who think saying “girls’ sports are for girls” or “no one is born in the wrong body” is hateful. *See article👇

You can watch the full SB 1070 Senate Public Safety Committee hearing here: youtube.com/watch?v=th6J88…

Senator Scott Wiener voted NO on SB 1070. Wiener states "there have been issues, of course, with synagogues as well, that that have been targeted in some pretty egregious ways, in terms, particularly in terms of harassing people who are entering and exiting synagogues." Yet, his qualms too were with the felony charges.

SB 1070, authored by Senator Grove to protect churches & worship services from disruption, was killed today in the Senate Public Safety Committee. CFC supported the bill. Churches are sacred spaces, not protest stages, and disruptions trample religious liberty. Failed on a party-line vote: NO: Arreguín, Caballero, Cortese, Pérez, Wiener AYE: Seyarto

Asm. Lowenthal’s AB 1803 forces “anti–hate speech” training on small businesses without defining “hate speech,” opening the door to labeling Christian beliefs about gender and sexuality as “hateful.” CFC VP Greg Burt testified in opposition. After recently opposing, and even flipping off our “Save Girls’ Sports” press conference, Lowenthal now wants to police “hate speech”? When given the chance to deny the hand gesture, he didn’t—just complained that Asm. @DavidTangipa & @KateSanchezCA spoke in his district w/out telling him. That tells you everything.

NOW: More than 1,000 people are taking part in the 6th annual “March for Life” outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento. @CAFamily helped organize this event. Per the event description listed in the public CA Capitol permits calendar, the event will feature "a dozen or so speakers promoting the value of unborn babies and opposing abortion."

2026 California March for Life Livestream! x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

2026 California March for Life Pre Rally Worship Livestream! x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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His seminary apparently missed the historical-grammatical exegesis day in hermeneutics class, I see.