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'TYRANNICAL': CA Foster Care Bill Allows Secret Abortions, Forces Parents to Use Preferred Pronouns

'TYRANNICAL': CA Foster Care Bill Allows Secret Abortions, Forces Parents to Use Preferred Pronouns Read Transcript


- California Governor, Gavin Newsom,

signed a bill this weekdealing with foster care,

but one family organizationin the state says

it violates the free speechrights of foster parents

and has the organization raising concerns

that it allows foster children to run

their own lives at theexpense of the rights

of foster parents.

The California Family Council's Director

of Capital Engagement, GregBurt, joins us now by Skype

with more on this law.

Welcome Greg.

- Hi, how are you doin'?

- Your organization says thebill that Governor Newsom

signed gives foster children the right

to secret abortions andrape care and the right

to keep texting and phone call records

away from the oversight of foster parents.

Can you elaborate on that?

- Yeah, this is a bill thatwas just signed this week

under the guise of children'srights, the governor is

signing a bill that's actually saying

that children have the right to abortions,

contraception, care if they get sexually

without anybody knowingwho is overseeing them,

an adult, a terrible opportunity

for them to be abused andwe just can't understand

why this is being done.

It's really horrifying.

- Greg, the CaliforniaFamily Council also says,

AB175 violates the free speechrights of foster parents

by compelling them to use a foster child's

pronoun of preference.

Can you explain?

- Yes.

So, another right thatthis bill gives kids is

that they have the right to demand

from their foster parents,that if they think they are

the other sex or a differentsex than their sex at birth,

they have the right to demandthat their foster parents

use this pronoun of preference.

Now, the state and the federal government

doesn't have the right todemand or compel people

to say words that they don't believe.

We see this a trend in schools,in different professions,

where the government isforcing Christian parents,

who believe in just twogenders, the Biblical

view of gender, yet they'reforcing as you know,

this is the polite way todeal with transgender kids,

you must say these made-up genders

or you must use, if youknow this is a female,

you must use his or her, ifthat's what they think they are.

And we just think thisviolates the first amendment.

There's cases going on aroundthe country about this,

but this is a dangerous trend.

- Greg, what is the CaliforniaFamily Council doing

to fight against the law?

- Well, we're sounding the alarm.

Just like we're talking toyou, we're writing articles.

I testified against thebill three or four times.

We're bringing other witnesses to testify.

We're just sounding the alarm and sadly,

you know, there's not awhole lotta groups out there

advocating for foster care kids.

And so, that's gotta change.

The church has gotta standup for these vulnerable kids

who need parents, who are protecting them.

There's so many Christiansinvolved in foster care

and we believe these kind of laws are just

pushing Christians right outof foster care altogether.

- Right.

Greg Burt of theCalifornia Family Council.

Thanks for your time today, sir.

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