Dallas A. Wingate
Election Information:
Party:
Republican
District:
20
Office:
State House
Contact Information:
therealdallaswingate.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.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
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:
Public and private companies, people, and churches are free to choose what services they will offer, and to whom they will provide them. Except when the product or activity is prohibited by law. Our State and Federal Constitutions clearly delineate the rights of religion, speech, and assembly. Everyone has a choice when and where they exercise those rights. However, just because we have the right to do something, does not mean we always should. We should always consider the potential consequences of our actions and how it may impact others.
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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:
We must not confuse biology with gender. Gender can be changed, and biology cannot. Physiological differences persist, no matter how much we attempt to erase them. Womens competitive sports, like men's competitive sports, are designed to measure athletic abilities among people of the same biology. It establishes a base line for the competitors. Allowing trans gender competition will result in ither two outcomes. One is domination of the sport (when biological men compete as women). The other is submission (where biological women compete against men). Either way, there is a biological advantage that makes competition unfair. Of course, there is one other potential solution. Developing a Transgender league or category for competition seems fair. Sexual orientation is an individual choice. Sexual Identity is also an individual choice. Race, sex, age, and disability are not choices they are biological certainties.
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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:
Schools must work together with parents to educate the students. The primary curriculum should be in those area that will be measured by the state Department of Education. We are currently failing in that area. We should stop attempting to teach morality, character, and personal choices in schools and leave that to the parents. Schools should merely educate on common core subjects like history, mathematics, and civics. Our state legislature recently attempted to implement a state portal to would allow parents to track, monitor, review the actions and subjects of their parents. It was rejected by the majority party.
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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:
Other exceptions include the life of the child, rape, and incest. As a Retired Military Officer, I generally support saving lives as opposed to taking them. I also understand this is not the current law in Delaware. As a candidate for office, I believe this is an issue for the people of this state to decide through referendum. The will of the people must prevail over the political fervor.