ANDREW STRAW
Election Information:
Party:
Other
District:
Not Provided
Office:
Unicameral
Contact Information:
www.andrewstraw.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/andrewstrawforsecretaryofstate
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.Prohibiting Abortion: Prohibiting abortion except when necessary to save the mother's life. |
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 Creative Professionals: Allowing creative professionals (photographer, baker, wedding vendor) to decline to participate in events or create messages that violate their moral or religious beliefs. |
X | ||
5.Conscience Rights for Faith-Based Organizations: Exempting faith-based organizations from regulations that cause them to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs. |
X | ||
6.Free Speech on Campus: Prohibiting speech zones or speech codes that restrict where students can discuss controversial or unpopular issues on college campuses. |
X | ||
7.Donor Privacy: Protecting confidential donor information so individuals are able to privately support charities of their choice without fear of being doxed. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
There is no religion-based right to discriminate against gays. Once you allow this, all civil rights categories and laws will start to fail.
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Family
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S | O | NR |
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8.Women's Sports: Preventing biological males who identify as female from competing in women's sports. |
X | ||
9.Gender Identity Counseling: Allowing parents to obtain professional counseling for children struggling with gender identity issues to help them reach their desired outcome. |
X | ||
10(a).Protected Class for Sexual Orientation: Adding “sexual orientation” as a protected class alongside race, religion, sex, age, and disability in nondiscrimination law. |
X | ||
10(b).Protected Class for Gender Identity: Adding “gender identity” as a protected class alongside race, religion, sex, age, and disability in nondiscrimination law. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
Being gay is innate, not a religious choice. To try to indoctrinate a gay child into heterosexuality is a violence to the identity of that person and frankly, child abuse. Males who identify as female may need their own category in women's sports. If there can be a Special Olympics, the parameters of Olympics can be broad indeed.
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Education and Public Safety
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S | O | NR |
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11.School Choice: Allowing the use of tax credits, vouchers, and education savings accounts to cover the cost of children attending the school of their parents' choice, including private schools. |
X | ||
12.Parental Rights for Opt-Out: Giving parents the ability to opt their children out of school materials and lessons to which the parents object. |
X | ||
13.Critical Race Theory: Allowing schools to teach children that America's laws, policies, and society perpetuate systemic racism and that people are either oppressors or oppressed, or privileged or marginalized, based on their skin color. |
X | ||
14.Parental Rights for Transparency in Education: Giving parents access to the curriculum and materials their children are learning in school and allowing them to decide whether or not their children should be exposed to certain ideas. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
Parents are not the total dictators of all beliefs and education of a child. Teachers and school systems exist to present ideas and skills to children that they may not get at home. If a parent wants more control, they can home school or choose a private school matching the parent's beliefs. America is still struggling with racism, just like sexism, misogyny, ableism, ageism and homophobia. I have no problem with teaching basic civil rights issues. Asking for balance is ok, such as noting that there are civil rights laws and they are sometimes enforced, if not very consistently. Giving access to the curriculum & materials is fine. This allows the parent to have conversations with the child outside school on those subjects.
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Health and Welfare
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S | O | NR |
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15.Medical Rights of Conscience: Allowing health care workers and providers the freedom to practice medicine in accordance with their personal beliefs and conscience. |
X | ||
16.Parental Rights for Healthcare Disclosure: Requiring schools to disclose to parents if the school is providing counseling or medical services to a child who desires to undergo “gender transition.” |
X | ||
17.Parental Rights for Mental Health Disclosure: Directing schools to inform parents of any mental, physical, or emotional health information and treatment that a child is receiving at school. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
While some start with a ban on abortion and make exceptions, Disability Party starts with full legal and safe abortions for any reason because women have the undisputed right to control their own bodies. Disability Party's exception is to discourage abortions where it is being done to oppose a civil rights category such as age, gender, race, or disability. This is a moral position and the woman is in a better position to know, with the help of a good doctor, what is best for her and her future plans to have children. Roe v. Wade should not have been reversed.