California Family Council

10/22/2026

Freedom is never more than one generation from being lost.

In California, the right to speak, worship, and raise your children by your convictions is under pressure every legislative session. Freedom that isn’t defended doesn’t survive.

Christ set us free. Now stand firm.

Galatians 5:1

10/22/2026

We were so glad to be apart of CSBC annual meeting to share about advocating for Biblical Values across the entire state of California! Can’t wait to all be back together next year 🤩

10/21/2026

CFC on Fox News

California’s new “hate speech” law, AB 1803, will soon require workplace training on speech about sexual orientation and gender identity, and there’s no exemption for churches.

Our Vice President, Greg Burt, told Fox News Digital what’s really going on:

“California has gotten excited about their ability to retrain the entire population...”

Starting January 1, 2028, employers with five or more workers must add this training to their harassment programs. It also reaches public school teachers and workers in many state-licensed industries. And it hinges on a term, “hate speech,” that has no clear legal definition in state law.

As Greg told the Assembly when this bill was first heard: “You cannot regulate what you cannot define.”

Read the full story on Fox News 👇
https://www.foxnews.com/media/christian-groups-pastors-say-new-california-lgbt-hate-speech-law-disguised-indoctrination

Share this with your pastor and your employer. They need to know what’s coming.

California’s new LGBT hate speech law reads more like a lesson in gender theory than a harassment law, say Christian groups and pastors

10/21/2026

California is changing fast. God’s design is not.

Life is sacred from the womb. Marriage is one man and one woman. We are created male and female. Parents, not the state, raise their children. Faith belongs in every part of life.

These truths are why California Family Council shows up at the Capitol, equips the church, and speaks into the culture. We are not giving up on this state.

Swipe through what we stand for, then stand with us.

10/21/2026

She came to CIF with a question she couldn’t shake: why won’t the people in charge say what every parent and grandparent already knows?

Boys and girls are different. Even with hormone treatment, males keep larger lungs, faster muscle twitch, longer bones, and more height.

She also spoke with compassion, acknowledging that kids struggling with gender confusion are real and suffering too. But that’s no reason to erase the girls.

Then she named what might be holding CIF back: fear of being sued by the state. She’d heard legal support has been offered to CIF, so her message was simple. Be brave.

History will remember who stood for our daughters and granddaughters. CIF, be on the right side of it.

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10/19/2026

Newsom Just Made Nearly Every Employer a Hate Speech Instructor

Every employer in California with five or more employees, public or private, for-profit or nonprofit, will soon have to teach its workers what the state calls hate. So will every elected official from the Capitol to the local school board. On September 27, 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills that California Family Council fought all year, turning a vague and politically loaded term into a mandatory training requirement.

AB 1803, by Assembly Speaker pro Tempore Josh Lowenthal (D-Long Beach), folds “anti-hate speech” instruction into the sexual harassment training every employer with five or more workers must already provide. It does not add a separate course or raise the existing minimums of one hour for employees and two hours for supervisors. AB 1578, by Assemblymember Corey Jackson (D-Moreno Valley), covers elected officials. Both mandates begin January 1, 2028.

AB 1578 changed more than once on its way to the governor. As introduced in January, it required a stand-alone hour of “anti-hate speech” training every four years. By the time CFC opposed it in April, it had been amended to fold that training into the sexual harassment course officials already take. The final law splits the mandate. Paid local elected officials, such as city council members, county supervisors, and school board trustees, get “anti-hate speech” training as a component of their existing harassment training. State elected officials get something different: a separate course “on responding to hate,” at least one hour within six months of taking office and every two years after, using training the Civil Rights Department develops or a course their agency creates.

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Every employer in California with five or more employees, public or private, for-profit or nonprofit, will soon have to teach its workers what the state calls hate. So will every elected official from the Capitol to the local school board. On September 27, 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bill...

10/19/2026

Bryce Henson is a Christian, a husband, and a father. He served as a U.S. Marine and a Navy SEAL. He came to CIF last Friday to stand with the girls and women who keep showing up to speak.

His point was simple. Every student can have a place to play. Girls should not have to give up their sports and their private spaces to make that happen.

He called it unacceptable that brave young women are being put in harm’s way just for speaking up, and he asked the men in the room to show the same courage those girls have shown.

Men of California, this is your moment. Wake up. Stand up. Speak up.

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10/19/2026

A Former Pro, a Teen Athlete, and Two Candidates Tell CIF: Get Boys Out of Girls’ Sports

California Family Council Outreach Director Sophia Lorey stood outside the Renaissance LAX Hotel on Friday, October 9, with a former professional soccer player, a high school athlete, a school board trustee, Attorney General candidate Michael Gates, and Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Sonja Shaw. Inside, the California Interscholastic Federation’s State Federated Council was holding its meeting. Outside, the message was simple: repeal the rule that puts boys on girls’ teams.

That rule is CIF Bylaw 300.D. It directs that students participate “in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on a student’s records.” Under it, male athletes have taken medals, records, and roster spots from California girls for years. Gates and Shaw both vowed to end it on their first day in office.

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California Family Council Outreach Director Sophia Lorey stood outside the Renaissance LAX Hotel on Friday, October 9, with a former professional soccer player, a high school athlete, a school board trustee, Attorney General candidate Michael Gates, and Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate...

10/15/2026

Ep. 108: Newsom Signs 6 Gender Bills & CIF Faces Fathers for Girls’ Sports

The legislative session is over, and Governor Newsom has made his choices. Sophia Lorey and Greg Burt go through the six pro-gender ideology bills he just signed into law. These include a counseling ban for kids who want to feel at home in their own bodies, and a mandate forcing insurers to cover gender drugs and surgeries. They also cover AB 1803, which adds “anti-hate speech” instruction to the harassment training nearly every California employer must provide, with no exemption for churches. That story has now reached Newsweek and the international press.

Then we take you to Los Angeles, where 40 to 50 people (many of them fathers) told CIF once again to protect girls’ sports. You’ll hear from retired pro soccer player Elizabeth Eddy and Elani Morales, a 17-year-old athlete who asked CIF a simple question: why won’t you protect us?
When the government tells us to disobey God, we obey God. Don’t go along to get along.”

Newsom’s Parting Gift to Gender Activists
Newsom Just Made Nearly Every Employer a Hate Speech Instructor
A Former Pro, a Teen Athlete, and Two Candidates Tell CIF
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10/13/2026

Elani Morales is 17. She and her younger sister compete in multiple sports at a high level. They wake up early, train exhausted, and work toward the dream of a college scholarship.

At a regional track meet this May, a girl from Elani’s district lost her qualifying spot to a male athlete who took first in multiple events in the girls’ division.

Elani opened her testimony by thanking Jesus Christ for the courage to speak. Then she told CIF the truth: respecting others does not mean ignoring undeniable truths.

She’s 17, and she’s braver than the adults in charge. CIF, follow her lead.

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