Damon Davis
Election Information:
Party:
Democrat
District:
55
Office:
State House
Contact Information:
damonjdavis.com
https://www.facebook.com/Davis.For.District.55/
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:
On number 4, I only support allowing creative professionals to decline to participate if the participation involves new creative expression. For example, a baker should not be required to design a cake for an event that goes against his or her beliefs. But if the baker has already made and decorated the cake and only needs to add names to it, then the baker should be required to sell it to whoever wants it, because it simply a commercial transaction that does not entail mandated expression.
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Family
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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:
On number 8, my answer would change if it can be shown that males who identify as female have an unfair advantage in the particular sport, as it fair competition in the sport is the most important thing. I think that may entail a sport-by-sport analysis. But if males who identify as females have an unfair advantage, then they should be required to compete as males. I have yet to see anything showing males who identify as females have an unfair advantage, but I am open minded to receiving such evidence. On number 10, my answer is limited to things like employment, wages, promotions, demotions, housing and the like; the things need for survival. It does not extent to things like bathroom or locker room usage, which should correspond to current physiological sex.
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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:
I cannot answer 13 because it is a compound question with too much going on in it. I do believe children should learn that America has a racist history, which is undisputable and the same thing I learned as a gen-x student. I believe system racism continues to exist, some of which is the ripple effect of past official racist policies, and that children of an appropriate age should learn this - probably middle and high schoolers but I'm not an education expert. I do not believe children should be taught that America is inherently racist or that all laws or all of society perpetuates racism, but children should learn that in some ways and places they do. I think children should learn that race or skin color contributes to being privileged or marginalized, as it indisputably does, but also that there is more to being privileged or marginalized than just race or skin color - life is too complicated for one thing to be determinative. I also believe children should not be taught that any group is inherently an oppressor or oppressed because that denies individuals agency in their own lives.
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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:
On number 2, I only support using taxpayer dollars to fund organization that provide abortions if the money is segregated and is not used to fund any abortions, but is only used for other services such as providing birth control or sexual education services.