Angela Kennedy, MBA, PMP - Freedom Voter Guide

Party:

Democrat

District:

7

Office:

State House

https://www.kennedy4kalispell.com/

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Survey Responses:

S = Support
O = Oppose
NR = No Response

Life	S	O	NR
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

Candidate's Comments:

Free Will is the ability to live life on your terms. I happen to believe that none of these situations require government or religious intervention.

First Amendment	S	O	NR
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:

#7 Politicians and political organizations and all of those involved in a role that they have or could have a conflict of interest of the people they are supporting, representing or are working on behalf of the public in a regulatory role or in general, need to have transparency. Might as well call it a bribe and not a donation. Privately in a non government or regulatory arena, it should be confidential. #5 The laws of the United States and of Montana are to be applied equally and without prejudice regardless of race, creed, political party or financial status. #3 If you are in business it is discrimination to not service one group of people because of their race, creed, gender, gender identification, political party, belief in unicorns, witchcraft, horoscopes, Aliens or other belief. How would you like it if your kid had his heart set on a Pokemon cake and the only baker in town didn't believe in Anime. Don't be in business if you're picky about a particular group of people. Se also #5.

Family	S	O	NR
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:

#8. This is such a very small part of our population that it's amazing that folks worry about it.

Education and Public Safety	S	O	NR
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:

#13- Not at all true that this is taught as a general rule or course curriculum in public schools... maybe at the college level. By then it's taught probably as theory and subject to an adult student forming their own perspective. I've lived and worked in many multi ethnic and multi cultural areas and on many multi national projects. No one felt oppressed, or oppressing, we were happy to have smart capable team members. #14 - Yes, be involved! Don't be a hinderance to the rest of the school. If you don't want your kids to know about reproduction, current events, diversity and challenges outside of the Utopia you've created for them, by all means keep them home that day/week and teach them how to weave grass ropes or what ever floats your boat. With my kids, I assumed a general curriculum and was not disappointed in the quality of education they received. I did chose to open enroll them in a public school that was more suited to their individual gifts and talents. We had that choice. I did not ask the teachers at all for special accommodations or complain to them about their work. That was my job as a parent to make sure my two children were educated to our satisfaction. There were a lot of late nights discussing science, literature, music, current events and travel to museums and cultural events. They passed their tests and both graduated public schools and University and are contributing young adults. I'm a proponent of public schools, but it is the parents who put the adults out in the world, and when they are un able to, the community pitches in. We had several kids on our "Family Field Trips" who weren't always family.

Health and Welfare	S	O	NR
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