Howard Heffington
Election Information:
Party:
Libertarian
District:
56
Office:
State House
Contact Information:
electheffington.com
@electheffington
@Heffington_Duck
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:
I believe that government doesn't have the authority to compel any services and should abolish regulations instead of being judge over what is a "sincerely held religious belief". The government does not have the authority to determine what is an acceptable belief because it is not the mediator between God and man.
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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:
Nondiscrimination law is a hazard because it was state action that institutionalized classes and protected bigotry by prohibiting oppressed classes from freely associating for their best interest. I would rather not continue adding classifications of "protected" classes in service of any particular worldview, in favor of eliminating hurdles to free and open competition--which would be the natural remedy to bigotry.
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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:
These questions 11-14 are predicated on the broken and failed socialistic education model. It is the parent's duty and privilege to rear their children, including education. So long as the model of taxing everyone to pay for education is accepted, politicians or bureaucrats will always be in charge of what is allowed in education. I believe separating education and the state is a religious freedom issue. As far as 13 goes, in critical race theory, the most important thing is to empower the family, not the state. But in my opinion, children should learn more about the history of the marginalization of blacks in America and the lingering consequences of that history should be honestly inquired after. I do not believe that acknowledging the existence of race-based social impediments or marginalization necessarily requires a Marxist worldview nor entails socialistic remedies. However, to work toward a more just society, from a biblical perspective, we have to be able to recognize that deep-seated prejudices do not disappear in just a couple of generations.
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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:
Abortion should be treated as the taking of human life. I don't believe in intrusive regulations on doctors and medical treatments in the name of prohibiting abortion. Prohibiting certain drugs that are used for abortions won't work and will only cause unintended effects from an over-reaching government. If someone is accused of abortion/murder, the burden is on the prosecution to prove that the mother's life wasn't being saved and that the mother was acting to intentionally end the child's life.