Edward Flanigan
Election Information:
Party:
Libertarian
District:
41
Office:
State House
Contact Information:
https://flanigan4liberty.com/
https://www.facebook.com/flanigan4Staterepdist41
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:
Any business owner or professional does and should have the right to refuse service for any reason. Governmental regulations should not be so restrictive as to require ANYONE to violate their religious beliefs or moral code. Free speech should be protected at all costs, and ignoring the "yelling fire in a crowded theater" scenario, all speech is free speech, even speech one may dislike. The speaker should take responsibility for their words just as we should for our actions. Personal information should be protected by the entity that requests it. That entity should be held responsible when there systems are breached
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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:
Men identifying as a woman should NOT be allowed to compete in women's sports Mental and physical health are isssues that should stay between a doctor and patient. Parents of minor children should be the only other person in a discussion about either. Discrimination of any kind is ugly, and a civilized society would refise to entertain any discrimination whatsoever. No gender should have any advantage over another, so gender identity should not matter.
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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:
All funds allocated to the school sysytem should follow the child. Parents should be more involved in what their children are being taught. Laws that cause discrimination should be abolished, and everyone should be trwated according to thier character, not thoer race, skin color, religion or sexual orientation. Again, parents should be more involved in their children education.
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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:
I personally oppose abortion, however it is a madical matter that should be kept between a doctor and patient and should not be politicized and used to persecute or attack others. Assisted suicide is the same way. If a patient has a terminal illness, or is in a vegetative state, and is of sound mind, they should be allowed to choose to end their life. Again, a decision that should be between a doctor and patient.