Ben Mostyn
Election Information:
Party:
Republican
District:
117
Office:
State House or Assembly
Contact Information:
MostynForTexas.com
@BenMostynTX
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 after a baby’s heartbeat is detected, with limited exceptions such as to save the mother’s life or in cases of rape or incest. |
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.Transparency in Banking: Allowing consumers to obtain a written explanation when a financial institution shuts down the consumer’s account to protect against ideologically driven cancellations. |
X | ||
7.Privacy in Financial Giving: Protecting confidential donor information so individuals are able to privately support charities and causes of their choice without fear of being doxed. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
7. This is a slippery slope and a double-edged sword. We CANNOT start making laws for everything. Protecting donor information will cover or hide [the perceived] "Just and Unjust" under the same blanket. Considering making a law to protect people from being doxed meddles with free speech and accountability. I am confident there is a better way of handling this; let's find that way and keep government out.
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Family
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S | O | NR |
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8.Parental Rights in Gender Identity Counseling: 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 | ||
9(a).Protected Class for Sexual Orientation: Elevating “sexual orientation” to a protected class alongside race, religion, sex, age, and disability in nondiscrimination law. |
X | ||
9(b).Protected Class for Gender Identity: Elevating “gender identity” to a protected class alongside race, religion, sex, age, and disability in nondiscrimination law. |
X |
Candidate's Comments:
8. This is the parents responsibility, not the State. Additionally, it is not the school's responsibility or anyone else. Topics like this are the responsibility of the Parents, the Church, and the Counselor the parents choose to mediate. 9. There is and should be no such thing as a "protected class." We are all equal. Our rights and equality are given to us by our Creator, not the State. The State's responsibility is to maintain the space provided by our Creator to ensure that each of us remain equal and that our God-given rights are maintained.
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Education and Public Safety
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S | O | NR |
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10.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 | ||
11.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 | ||
12.Parental Rights in School Healthcare Disclosure: Directing schools to inform parents of any mental, physical, or emotional health information and treatment that a child is receiving at school. |
X | ||
13.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:
13. Education across the board, should be standardized and transparent. Pre-K through 12th grade should have the same requirements, regardless of the school. Private schools, religious schools, and technical/charter schools may have extra requirements, but the core is the same. The core topics in education have not, should not, and will not change - especially at levels below high school. Math didn't change, the core principles of science didn't change, our Constitution didn't change - so why are we reinventing the wheel? When an individual goes to college, it is there they will learn what has been updated in science, how society has advanced, and they will study the subject(s) of their choice and required by their degree program.
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Health and Welfare
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S | O | NR |
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14.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 | ||
15.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 | ||
16.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:
3. Allowing voluntary physician-assisted suicide: There is a difference between personal conviction and public policy. This matter is the individual's; it is between them, God, and their physician. This is not the State's lane and overall, I believe individual rights should have the LEAST amount of government interference. To the people that disagree with this statement: The foundation of every nation throughout the history of time and until the Good Lord returns, is Church and State. Each culture or society has a different flavor of State as well as a different flavor of Church, or religion, but what remains constant is the foundation; and the foundation must not be tampered with; only repaired and maintained. In this instance, as well as many others in the realm of "social hot-buttons," the duty is of the Church, NOT of the State. Church & State have different roles; defined responsibilities that maintain the foundation of the Nation; which governs the society as a whole and ensures balance. If the belief system of the citizen(s) is that physician-assisted suicide is wrong or immoral, then the Church must handle their responsibility and change the belief system of the individual. This is the Church's job, not the State's job.