Following a week of violent riots in Los Angeles, conservative activist group Catholic Vote has released a report titled the "Gavin Newsom files," a report highlighting what the group calls the California’s governor’s "extreme" and "viciously anti-Christian agenda." (Getty Images)
"California’s governor claims to be a Catholic ‘man of faith,’" says the report. "But he has a viciously anti-Christian agenda for America."
The report highlights how, despite his recent rebranding, Newsom has long been at the forefront of pushing for ever more liberal policies, championing causes such as abortion and transgender treatments for children.
"Gavin Newsom may be adjusting his style and image. But he remains the same ideologue who has trampled parental rights, championed the transgender mutilation of children, and taken pro-abortion advocacy to a sickening extreme," says the report.
As a politician with rumored presidential aspirations, Catholic Vote highlights how Newsom has advanced his liberal agenda not just in California but across the entire country.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Catholic Vote states that "Few figures demonstrate the drift of America’s political Left – away from the Clinton-era language of ‘safe, legal, and rare,’ and toward today’s ‘#ShoutYourAbortion’ attitude – better than Gavin Newsom."
The report also points to how Newsom has led the nation to "warp" the concept of parental choice to use it as a tool to advance transgender treatments for children. It points to how Newsom signed a bill in 2022 making California the nation’s first "sanctuary state" for parents from other jurisdictions seeking to give their children hormone treatment, puberty-blocking drugs, and more. It says that in 2023, Newsom again "doubled down on this strategy of imposing radical ideology and calling it ‘freedom.’ When he instituted new penalties on public school districts that fail to promote homosexuality and transgenderism to children, he framed this as a matter of ‘families’ having ‘the freedom to decide what’s right for them.’"
According to the report, Newsom’s office released a statement in 2023 after he signed a slate of "Supporting LGBTQ+ Californians" policies that declared "hate-filled attacks" of "far-right extremists" would "not be tolerated."
Catholic Vote said that "if California is indeed ‘America’s Coming Attraction,’ as Newsom claims, believers in Biblical truth – and biological reality – should be gravely concerned."
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Photo from a fire in a June 2025 Los Angeles riot (Getty)
"Inevitably, the advance of LGBTQ ideology threatens religious liberty and authentic freedom of conscience in society. These ideologues demand forms of approval and practical compliance that faithful Christians, and other critics of gender nonsense, cannot give them," says the report.
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"Americans have been shocked by the rioting and chaos in Los Angeles. But sadly, this reckless governance is all too common in Gavin Newsom's California," Catholic Vote Vice President Josh Mercer told Fox News Digital.
"As our new report, Newsom Files points out, the California governor refused to deal with vexing problems like drug dealers, shoplifters and the rampant homeless camps. Instead, Gavin Newsom was busy dreaming of the White House and spending taxpayer funds to put up billboards in Oklahoma that quote the Bible and urge people to fly to California to get an abortion," he said. "With his wacky priorities, it's no wonder people are fleeing California in droves."
Brandon Richards, a spokesperson for Newsom, responded to the report by telling Fox News Digital that "we're not taking seriously any organization co-founded by a political hack who has sworn allegiance to President Trump," possibly referring to Catholic Vote's 2024 endorsement of Trump's campaign and Catholic Vote founder Brian Burch's selection to be the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
Richards said "we encourage Catholic Vote, which does not represent the Catholic Church, to read Leviticus: ‘You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.’"
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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