✝ God First · Category #3 · 10 pts

Family & Child Sovereignty

Parents over the state. The state out of the school. The predator off the platform.

5 questions × 2 pts = 10 max · How scoring works · Back to scorecard

What this measures

Does this candidate defend parental authority over children and protect children from state intrusion, predators, and ideological capture?

Why it matters

God gave children to parents, not to schools, not to the state, not to corporations. When public school systems teach gender ideology to kindergarteners without parental notice, when social-media platforms surface adult content to minors, when foster agencies prioritize same-sex placement over kinship preservation — the family's God-ordained authority is being usurped. This category catches the politicians who enabled that usurpation.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. … And these words which I am commanding you today shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your sons.

— Ephesians 6:4 / Deuteronomy 6:6–7

The 5 scored questions

Each question is binary (True / False / null). True earns +2 points. Null is "not yet verified from primary sources" — neither penalized nor credited. Use the toggle below to see the wording for federal, state, or local officials — the moral spirit is identical across tiers; what changes is the chair making the call. Read the tier architecture explainer →

View as: 5 of 5 questions apply at this tier

Q1. Candidate supports universal school choice, homeschool freedom, and opposes compulsory public-school attendance

Q1. Candidate has voted for state school-choice (vouchers, ESAs, charter expansion) and supports state homeschool freedom statutes

Q1. Candidate (school board) opts the district into school-choice transfers + protects homeschool freedom + opposes truancy-based criminal referrals
Q2. Candidate supports parental notification and consent on all medical, mental-health, and gender-related interventions for minors

Q2. Candidate has voted for state law requiring parental notification + consent on minors' medical, mental-health, and gender interventions (incl. school counseling referrals)

Q2. Candidate (school board) requires parental notification before any gender/sexuality counseling of minors; (mayor/council) opposes city programs facilitating minor medical procedures without parents
Q3. Candidate opposes CRT, SOGI, "comprehensive sex ed," and gender-ideology curricula in K-12 public schools

Q3. Candidate has voted for state law restricting CRT/SOGI/comprehensive-sex-ed/gender-ideology curricula in K-12

Q3. Candidate (school board) has voted to remove CRT/SOGI/comprehensive-sex-ed/gender-ideology materials from district curriculum and library shelves
Q4. Candidate supports age-verification on pornographic content and criminal penalties for sexualized content marketed to minors

Q4. Candidate has voted for state age-verification laws on pornographic content and state criminal penalties for sexualizing minors

Q4. Not scored at the local tier — federal/state-only question.
Q5. Candidate supports faith-based adoption/foster agencies and opposes placement of children with same-sex couples

Q5. Candidate has voted for state RFRA-style protections for faith-based adoption + foster agencies; opposes state-mandated SS-couple placement

Q5. Not scored at the local tier — federal/state-only question.

Key bills, votes, and laws we track

Universal School Choice Act / ESA legislation — State-by-state Education Savings Account programs. Adam tracks every governor + state legislator vote.
Parental Bill of Rights Act — Federal version 2023 H.R. 5; state versions tracked since 2021.
Age-Verification on Adult Content Act — Texas-style age verification for pornographic websites. Tracked state-by-state.
Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act — Bans cross-sex hormones + gender-related surgeries on minors. State-by-state tracking.

Organizations and PAC vectors we score

Moms for Liberty — Local-chapter endorsement = strong positive signal.
Heritage Foundation Parents Bill of Rights — Scoring + endorsements tracked.
Family Research Council — Voter-guide alignment.
NEA / AFT (teacher unions) — Endorsements zero out this category.
GLSEN — Curriculum-partner relationships disqualify.

⚠️ Position-level disqualifiers

Voted to require gender-affirming care for minors
Voted against parental notification on a child's gender identity in schools
Took campaign money from teacher-union PACs above $10K cycle

A candidate matching any of the above is graded down to the floor of this category regardless of other answers in the rubric.

Where this lives in the scorecard

This category contributes 10 of 60 in the ✝ God First tier (60 pts total) and 10 of 100 in the grand total. See the full scoring system for the 60/40 weighting rationale and the letter-grade scale (A 90+ / B 80 / C 70 / D 60 / F <60).

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