Joe Jernigan
Election Information:
Party:
Libertarian
District:
111
Office:
State House or Assembly
Contact Information:
joetofreesc.com
@JoeToFreeSC
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:
5.) Consent of the Governed is key. If a Faith-Based Organization desires to defy a law, based on their sincerely-held religious beliefs, they should be allowed to do so (like anyone else) SO LONG AS, the defiance of that law does not violate the the Natural or Constitutional Rights of another. When all other avenues fail, physical defiance of Overbearing Government is the only viable option remaining. 7.) Transparency is key. Legally mandating privacy of all donations would be CATASTROPHICALLY horrible for holding elected officials (Government) & Private Market actors accountable.
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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.) Informed Consent is key, Minors are not of age to legally consent. SO LONG AS a Private Firm isn't employing abusive practices in their Conversion Therapy Program, they should be allowed to operate. As with ANY other case of Child Abuse, Private Conversion Therapy Firms should be HARSHLY punished for any proven acts of Child Abuse. 9a & b.) As a Libertarian, it is extremely difficult to justify Government protection of CERTAIN classes, while not affording the same protections to other undefined classes. However, if these laws are to remain, they should ONLY cover classes of Immutable Characteristics. Sexual Orientation is not mutable, someone cannot choose which sex(es) cause them to become physically aroused. On the contrary, Gender Identity is mutable, as choosing to pretend to be the opposite Gender (Sex) IS a mutable characteristic, and therefore should not be a protected class by Government.
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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:
10.) No Direct Payments or ESA's for Private Schools, but allow it for PARENTS. For example: lowering the tax burdens of parents, employing tax credits to them, having ESA's only THEY can draw from, etc. SO LONG AS Government is not directly funding Private Institutions, parents should be given as much tax relief as possible, to reasonably facilitate educating their children. 11.) Government must legislate based on reality, not fantasy to appease. NOBODY should be legally required/compelled to recognize/acknowledge someone's mutable characteristic(s), including that of recognizing/acknowledging someone's Pretend Gender (Sex).
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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:
1.) Support protecting life as well as Government can, while allowing women to chose if they carry a fetus to term or not. I PERSONALLY believe life begins at Fetal Heartbeat, but as a Libertarian I see it best for the Government to limit abortion as much as possible, while still allowing choice. Many females including one in my family, doesn't/didn't know they are/were pregnant until 10+ weeks. I PERSONALLY think a 15-Week Abortion Ban, with exceptions for Rape, Incest, Physical Survival of the Mother, etc. at the STATE level, should be the standard in all States. 2.) Government is responsible for protecting life, not disposing of it. NO abortions should be taxpayer funded. If a female/male partner doesn't have health insurance that will pay for one, or the private funds to get one if the female wanted one, she nor the male she is sleeping with, needs to have unprotected sex. The relatively inexpensive remedies there are for birth control & protected sex, are vastly available to the public today. At some point, Government must stop rewarding individuals for reckless behavior. 3.) Informed Consent is key. Just like "Right To Try" legislation was passed (giving terminally ill patients access to experimental, but possibly life-saving drugs, which did have some risk higher than what would be assumed from a product with normal FDA approval), terminally ill patients should have the right to exit life, of their own informed accord. Again, it should NOT be taxpayer funded (as Government is responsible for protecting life), but it should be ALLOWED in the Private Market.