Bruce Guthrie
Election Information:
Party:
Libertarian
District:
21
Office:
State House or Assembly
Contact Information:
www.BruceGuthrie.com
Survey Responses:
S = Support
O = Oppose
NR = No Response
O = Oppose
NR = No Response
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Life
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S | O | NR |
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1.Protecting Life: Protecting the right to life of an unborn baby with a beating heart. |
X | ||
2.Taxpayer Funded Abortion: Allowing taxpayer dollars to fund organizations that provide abortion. |
X | ||
3.Physician-Assisted Suicide: Allowing voluntary physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. |
X |
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First Amendment
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S | O | NR |
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4.Conscience Rights for Professionals: Prohibiting the government from denying required licensure or certification to individuals because of their religious or political beliefs. |
X | ||
5.Conscience Rights for Faith-Based Organizations: Exempting faith-based organizations (e.g. adoption/foster care providers, private schools) from regulations that cause them to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs. |
X | ||
6.Prohibiting De-Banking/Insuring Based on Beliefs: Prohibiting financial institutions from shutting a customer’s bank account or canceling their insurance because of their religious or political views. |
X |
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Family
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S | O | NR |
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7.Protecting Kids from Social Media: Requiring platforms to by default prevent underage accounts without parental permission, preserve parents' authority when access is allowed, and remove addictive design features and data exploitation from underage accounts. |
X | ||
8(a).Parental Rights: Allowing parents to obtain professional counseling for a child struggling with gender confusion to help the child find comfort with his or her biological sex. |
X | ||
8(b).Parental Rights: Protecting parents from losing custody of their child solely because they treat their child consistent with his or her biological sex. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
Parents are responsible for kids, not governments. Parents must supervise their children's on-line activities. Government proof of age is sold to us as a way to "protect the children," but it is really a way to violate the privacy of everyone else.
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Education
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S | O | NR |
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9.School Choice: Allowing the use of tax credits, vouchers, and/or education savings accounts to cover the cost of children attending the school of their parents’ choice, including private religious schools. |
X | ||
10.Free Speech at School: Protecting teachers and students from being forced to refer to a person by inaccurate pronouns that do not align with the person’s sex. |
X | ||
11.School Healthcare Disclosure to Parents: Requiring schools to inform parents of any mental, physical, or emotional health information and treatment that a child is receiving at school. |
X | ||
12.Transparency in School Curriculum & Activities: Giving parents access to the curriculum, presentations, and activities that their children are learning in school and allowing them to opt their children out of school extra-curricular activities, presentations, or specific lessons to which the parents object. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
I am a teacher, and I believe that government schooling is a failed social experiment. Politicians use government education to indoctrinate and to serve their own interests. I would like to see a separation of school and state. All government school buildings should be privatized, and turned in to private schools with local parental boards. They should charge tuition and compete with each other and specialize. A full-ride scholarship should be given to the bottom half based on income and assets, and funded initially by property taxes. The fact that the upper half are now paying tuition should allow for a reduction in the property taxes of everyone. Over time, this tuition voucher system should also be privatized so that property taxes may be reduced even further.
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Health and Welfare
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S | O | NR |
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13.Medical Rights of Conscience: Protecting health care workers from losing their jobs if they decline to participate in a procedure or treatment that violates their personal beliefs and conscience. |
X | ||
14.Women’s Privacy: Preventing males who identify as female from entering sex-separated spaces intended for females, such as showers, locker rooms, bathrooms, dormitories, women’s shelters, prisons, etc. |
X | ||
15.Protecting Pregnancy Centers: Ensuring pregnancy centers that provide life-affirming support to women and their families are not targeted or penalized by government officials. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
I like that Roe v. Wade was struck down. Abortion is not a Federal issue. It should be handled at the state level under the 10th Amendment. I think abortion should be legal in the first 14 weeks of gestation, and later in the case of elevated risk to the life of the mother, and in the case of the discovery of significant birth defects. Abortion should not be used for birth control later than 14 weeks. Within 14 weeks, it is a personal, moral issue. Making it illegal would tend to make things worse. No government funding should be given to any organization or individual for the purpose of abortion. Planned Parenthood should get no funding that comes from taxpayers. No physician should be forced or required to perform abortions or to aid in assisted suicide. Such things should be informed and totally voluntary. And suicide should never be encouraged by hospitals or governments as they often are in Canada.