Scott Wiener

Scott Wiener is a Democratic member of the California State Senate representing District 11, which encompasses San Francisco, Broadmoor, Colma, Daly City, and portions of South San Francisco and San Bruno. ^[1,2] First elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2020 and 2024, Wiener has authored over 100 laws and has established himself as one of the most prolific legislators in Sacramento. ^[2,3] He is also, by a significant margin, one of the legislators whose record diverges most sharply from the California Family Council's worldview framework. With an 11% CFC Biblical Values Scorecard rating — among the lowest in the Legislature — Wiener has been the driving force behind some of the most consequential legislation CFC has opposed, including SB 107, which CFC condemned for stripping parental custody rights to facilitate medicalized gender transition of minors (Chapter 8); SB 407, which CFC described as requiring foster parents to "swear allegiance to LGBT ideology" (Chapter 7); and SB 132, which placed biological males in women's prisons based on self-declared gender identity. ^[10,11,12] His legislative agenda on gender identity, abortion access, and LGBTQ policy represents a sustained and systematic challenge to CFC's core convictions on the sanctity of life (Chapter 6), God's design for marriage and family (Chapter 7), parental authority (Chapter 8), and religious liberty (Chapter 9).

Scott David Wiener was born on May 11, 1970, in Philadelphia and raised in southern New Jersey. ^[1,2] The son of a small business owner and a public school teacher, he earned a bachelor's degree from Duke University, spent a year studying in Chile on a Fulbright Scholarship, and received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

In 2010, Wiener was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. ^[1,2] He was elected to the State Senate in 2016 after defeating fellow Supervisor Jane Kim. ^[1,2] In the Senate, he has served as Chair of the Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, the Housing Committee, and the Human Services Committee, and co-chairs the California Legislative Jewish Caucus. ^[1,3] His legislative portfolio spans housing, transportation, climate, criminal justice, and LGBTQ policy.

His 9.3% Biblical Values Scorecard rating across 102 scored floor votes reflects consistent divergence from CFC's worldview framework. His voting record has supported abortion access expansion over the sanctity of human life, government-directed education over parental authority and school choice, and progressive social mandates over religious liberty protections.

Wiener is respected even by some adversaries for his work ethic and legislative productivity — the Center for Effective Lawmaking ranked him the most effective Democratic state senator in the 2023-2024 session. ^[9] His housing reform work has drawn support across ideological lines.