Dear Friends,

We are so excited to share yet another milestone victory with you!

Last week, in a massive win for vulnerable children and female athletes, the Ohio State Senate finished overriding Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of Substitute House Bill (H.B.) 48, the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act. In taking this step, the Senate followed the lead of the Ohio House of Representatives which had already voted to override the governor’s veto on January 10th.

The SAFE Act, which is based on our model Help Not Harm bill, will protect vulnerable Ohio children struggling with gender dysphoria from the irreversible harm of so-called gender transition procedures. These dangerous, experimental, and irreversible procedures include mastectomies or “top surgery,” as well as puberty blocking drugs and cross sex hormones.

Ohio is now the 21st state to pass a Help Not Harm bill, and the 5th to take the extraordinary step of overriding a governor’s veto to do so, protecting vulnerable children from these barbaric procedures.

The Ohio SAFE Act also protects female athletes from having to compete against biologically male athletes in K-12 education and at the collegiate level.

This part of the bill was written and advocated for by Ohio State Representative Jena Powell, a graduate of Family Policy Foundation’s Statesman Academy. We are so grateful for her enduring, honorable hard work on behalf of women’s rights and opportunities in Ohio athletics. Her work has made Ohio the 24th state to ensure girls do not have to compete against boys in sports.

Along with our allies at Center for Christian Virtue, we want to say THANK YOU for making this victory, and the many before it, possible. These victories are so very important but are only possible because of you and the grace of God.

America is in a time of national reckoning with transgender ideology, which is uniquely targeting vulnerable children and women’s opportunities in athletics.

YOU and like-minded people across the nation have been essential to our state-by-state effort to turn the tide and take a stand for children and female athletes.

We pray that you would continue to partner with us on this noble effort to protect the futures of our boys and girls.

For our children,

Joseph Kohm III
Director, Public Policy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We just hit yet another milestone! Ohio recently joined the Help Not Harm movement by passing legislation that protects minors from dangerous and irreversible transgender procedures. Help Not Harm bills have now been passed in 21 states across the country!

Despite being vetoed by several governors, Help Not Harm bills have persevered. A total of 5 states have successfully overridden their governor’s veto of the bill – that’s unheard of! They are Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Ohio.

To talk about this great success, Joseph Kohm will be joined on our podcast today by Jerry Cox of Arkansas Family Council and David Walls of The Family Foundation in Kentucky.

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At Family Policy Alliance, our vision is a nation where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive, and life is cherished. To stay up to date on the fight to protect families and learn how to take action, follow us on social media!

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Emma Rarden
Digital Specialist, Producer

 

 

 

 

 

What happens when a leftist California librarian shuts down a female athlete for publicly speaking the truth about biology? Find out how she’s fighting back in our live podcast!

In our newest episode of the SoCon Report Podcast, Joseph Kohm III chats with Sophia Lorey from California Family Council, as she shares the story that led to this important case and what it all means for social conservatism and First Amendment free speech. She will be joined by her attorney, Mathew Hoffmann from Alliance Defending Freedom, who will give insight about the lawsuit and its implications. They will dive into the details of the lawsuit and discuss the importance of free speech and the role of the government.

Don’t miss out! Watch the LIVE interview today at the links below.

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At Family Policy Alliance, our vision is a nation where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive, and life is cherished. To stay up to date on the fight to protect families and learn how to take action, follow us on social media!

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Emma Rarden
Digital Specialist – Producer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Friends,

As we begin 2024 and look ahead, there are many topics looming large as major cultural, political and spiritual issues in our country. That’s why we want to start this year inviting you to join the Family Policy Alliance team in prayer for our nation.

Here are four of the most important issues that we are praying over as we have entered into the new year. (Be sure to see the end of this email for an opportunity to join us for prayer in a live online event tomorrow.)

Life

Pro-abortion forces are diligently and persistently seeking to challenge pro-life laws in nearly a dozen states this year by placing the outright legalization of abortion for any reason directly on the ballot. (So far, these are the states facing this challenge: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York and South Dakota.) If these efforts follow previous patterns, the abortion industry’s tactics will be dishonest and deceptive. Pro-life voters must push back with the truth and most importantly, show up to vote for life!

We are praying that:

• That the message of life would prevail in all of these locations and that every deceptive message of the pro-abortion forces would be exposed and confused in its delivery
• That the dark money funding these pro-death initiatives would fail in all of its efforts and the profit-seeking nature of the abortion industry behind these efforts would be revealed
• That pro-life voters would become educated and vote on these critical matters in every state where it appears on the ballot
• That our nation would finally turn the corner in the efforts to eliminate the evil of abortion and lead us to a time when we wonder how we ever let the holocaust of abortion go on for so long

Transgender Agenda

The transgender agenda is fiercely aggressive, and its messages lurk everywhere seeking to entice children into life-long decisions that lead to pain, regret and suicide. The hollow promise to children is one of ultimate self-determination as the solution to the challenges they face. In the end, however, it is a lifetime of dealing with the consequences of denying the reality of God’s creation of them as male or female.

We are praying that:

• More states would adopt Help Not Harm laws that prohibit transgender procedures for children
• The truth about the lifelong effects of so-called gender “transition” on children would be revealed and that the very real harm and anguish caused would be acknowledged and understood – including the stories of those who have “de-transitioned”
• Those who seek to profit from the mutilation of children would be open to hearing the truth and turn from their ways
• Parents would specifically educate themselves on what their schools are teaching on this topic and that they would speak up when schools become accessories to imposing this agenda and these procedures on children

Parental Rights

Related to the prior topic, parents have, in recent years, become more aware of how schools are pushing numerous harmful agendas on their children. Whether it is transgender indoctrination, critical race theory, normalization of homosexuality or provision of pornography in reading materials, parents must be aware and vigilant when it comes to not only schools, but also doctors’ offices, libraries, social media and the entertainment industry, among many others who actively seek to push harmful ideas and abnormal worldviews on innocent children.

We are praying that:

• Parents would become active and strategic about confronting schools when questionable material is presented to their children
• Parents would exercise their rights to remove their children from environments where such material is treated as normal and taught as truth
• Students would be equipped to discern the truth when confronted with harmful, dishonest agendas and then respectfully be allowed to address those agendas with truth
• Local governing bodies and lawmakers at all levels of government would recognize parental rights and enact provisions to reaffirm the rights of parents in the bringing up of children

Elections

This year brings us to another presidential election. We have seen nearly three years of radicalism, whether it be the taxpayer funding of abortion, attempts to erode religious freedom or the proliferation of transgender mandates throughout the entire federal government. This election has the chance to determine whether or not these dangerous abuses of power will be allowed to continue.

We are praying that:

• The 2024 election process will reveal the true nature of all candidates seeking to lead our nation and that voters will chose wisely
• That godly men and women will be elected to Congress and state legislatures regardless of the outcome in the presidential election
• Outside forces and the media will not succeed in influencing the outcome of this election and that the country would be able to accept the results as reflecting election integrity
• Our nation makes good choices that will help move our nation toward righteous, biblical values and Godly principles of governance

These are but four issues (among many) that we see as critical for this year and they are just a beginning of where we would invite God’s influence in our culture.

Please add your own prayers to these as we move through the coming months. We encourage you to share these with your family and friends as well as your prayer groups, small groups and Sunday school classes.

You are invited to join us online tomorrow for a prayer livestream as we talk about and pray over these issues as well.

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We hope you can join us tomorrow, but if not, please do keep these things in prayer and watch for periodic prayer updates from us as 2024 progresses.

Prayerfully,

Robert Noland
Director of Audience Engagement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This year, we achieved a significant milestone. Our Help Not Harm legislation was passed in 20 states to safeguard children from transgender drugs and surgeries. This means thousands of kids in those states are now protected from dangerous medical interventions!

And, we couldn’t have done it without YOUR partnership and support.

2023 was truly the year of Help Not Harm! Let’s celebrate this achievement with a message from our CEO, Craig DeRoche, and an exciting highlight video that recaps the journey of  how together we overcame obstacles to get where we are today. Tune in to watch the premiere online today!

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At Family Policy Alliance, our vision is a nation where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive, and life is cherished. To stay up to date on the fight to protect families and learn how to take action, follow us on social media!

Your partnership is a vital part of all these accomplishments!

Thank you for helping us protect kids more than ever before in 2023!

Emma Rarden
Digital Specialist – Producer

 

 

President Biden’s Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) recently issued guidelines on lactation and infant feeding that encourage biological males to “chestfeed” children and recommend that healthcare professionals endorse this behavior. The guidelines promote an experimental process that induces lactation in men with a drug cocktail consisting of heavy doses of hormones, anti-psychotics, and sedatives.

There is an incredible lack of scientific research on this treatment, but what we do know doesn’t look good. These drugs risk blood clots in the transgender-identifying individuals and can cause irregular heartbeats in the babies ingesting the milk. And, there is no scientific consensus about the nutritional value of the milk produced.

Watch our new live video today to learn how you can make a difference!

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Promoting harmful experiments on children seems par for the course in the Biden Administration. For years they’ve advocated for hormone cocktails and invasive surgeries like double-mastectomies on young girls in the name of “gender transition,” both of which leave children sterile. Now, they are promoting even more experimental drugs to induce false lactation in men, failing to care about the effects on the health of either the men or the babies.

Speak up here!

At Family Policy Alliance, our vision is a nation where God is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive, and life is cherished. To stay up to date on the fight to protect families and learn how to take action, follow us on social media!

See you in the comments section! 

Emma Rarden
Communications Specialist-Producer

P.S. Have you checked out our NEW podcast? We pick the brains of newsmakers and experts to break down what’s happening now on the issues YOU care about. With new episodes weekly, you’ll be up to date on all things that affect your family. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Google Podcasts.

 

 

Despite public pressure and the attempts of Catholic leadership to meet with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the baseball team plans to move forward with their pride month night TONIGHT where they will bestow a “community hero award” upon a group of “drag nuns” who regularly mock Christ and the cross.

This is deeply offensive to Catholics, all Christians, and women.

The Dodgers need to hear from you that this is unacceptable. Other companies continue to feel the heat for going Woke. Target losses alone just hit $15.7 billion, a 52-week low. And Bud Light just lost the top spot as “America’s Top-Selling Beer” after weeks of losses.

It’s bad enough to “go woke” but to honor a group that openly mocks Catholics, Christ and the cross, and women with an award is another level of tone deaf.

Today is the last chance to make your voice heard! Thousands have already done so, and we hope you will join in in releasing a nonstop flood into the Dodgers’ inbox.

TAKE ACTION NOW or read below for the full story and our original alert.

Thank you for taking a stand!

Autumn Leva
Senior Vice President, Strategy

P.S. The Dodgers DO need to hear from you! Even if they go through with awarding the drag “nuns,” they need to know that this type of activity is unacceptable to Americans. Please join us in taking action now!

 

 

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Target and Bud Light apparently didn’t teach the Los Angeles Dodgers any lessons. Target and Bud have lost billions of dollars after catering to the transgender agenda. Bud Light featured a prominent male who identifies as female on their beer cans in an advertisement. Target decided to sell LGBT clothing for children and women’s apparel designed to “tuck” male genitalia.

Both companies forsook their target markets to appease the woke LGBT crowd, and they’ve paid for it with their bottom lines.

The Dodgers, also ignoring fans nationwide who simply want to watch good baseball, decided to host their “Pride Night” over the upcoming Father’s Day weekend. To make matters worse, they opted to invite a drag queen group that openly mocks Christians and Catholics called the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”

These so-called “Sisters” are known for dressing in highly sexualized versions of Jesus, Mary, and Catholic nuns; using a cross to perform a pole dance; and living by their motto “go and sin some more.”  The Dodgers plan to award this group with the “Community Hero Award.”

Take Action Now – urge the Dodgers to reject the woke agenda

An unintentional admission of truth comes from their own website where the “Sisters” claim they “use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry.” Ironically, their highly offensive performances actually reveal their own bigotry toward Christians, particularly Catholics.

At first, the Dodgers seemed to understand that their invitation to the “Sisters” was a mistake and extremely offensive to Christians in their fanbase, so they uninvited them.

Then, they backtracked after caving to pressure from LGBT activist groups and reinvited the “Sisters,” moving forward with plans to name them “community heroes.”

Senator Marco Rubio, Catholic groups, baseball fans, and even Dodgers players themselves have been speaking out against the Dodgers’ woke moves to honor such a controversial group.

What can we do as the Body of Christ?

Family Policy Alliance has a petition to the Dodgers urging them to reject the woke agenda, restore common sense, and refuse to bestow honor on such a blatantly sexualized and anti-religious group. Drag performances that mock both women and Christians have no place in baseball.

Sign the petition now.

You can add your name to the petition to the Dodgers in less than 30 seconds through our action center, and we will instantly deliver every signed petition to the Dodgers’ email inbox.

Help us flood their inbox with your concerns! The Dodgers clearly haven’t learned from Bud Light’s and Target’s mistakes.

A daughter in Arkansas says she wants to “transition” to living as a boy. Her wise and loving parents graciously but firmly say “no.”

What happens next?

If a new bill becomes law in Minnesota, that daughter could seek transgender drugs and surgery, getting court protection to do so – all without her parents’ consent.

According to Minnesota Family Council (our state ally courageously leading the charge against this bill):

“The Minnesota House recently passed HF 146. This bill gives a court of the state custody of kids who want puberty blockers, wrong-sex hormones, or ‘gender surgery,’ if the parent(s) do not allow their child to receive harmful ‘gender-affirming care.’ Now the Minnesota Senate is considering the bill SF63 on FRIDAY.”

This is a serious threat to parental rights and children’s health and well-being in every state.

Fox News has reported on this bill and Minnesota family law attorney Bob Roby was interviewed on Fox and Friends about this legislation.

Please send a message to your state senator asking him or her to oppose this dangerous bill.

The legislature is determined to make Minnesota gender transition center, with the state taking custody of children from around the country—stripping parents in other states of their rightful and protective custody of their children.

The Senate is set to consider this bill before the end of the week – time is working against us.

Send your message NOW. It takes less than a minute using the form below, and this is a critical threat to parental rights!

Sincerely,

Autumn Leva
Sr. Vice President for Strategy

P.S. Our friends at Minnesota Family Council are standing courageously against this bill in St. Paul. If you’d like to join them in person, you can attend a rally opposing the bill on Friday. The rally will happen before the Senate floor session starts at 9 am. Reach out to moses@mfc.org for more details if you want to attend.