John E. Dahlgren
Election Information:
Party:
Democrat
District:
34
Office:
State House or Assembly
Contact Information:
https://www.facebook.com/Johndahlgrenforstaterepresentative
https://twitter.com/JohnDahlgren1
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:
4. The government should allow proper certifications and licensures as long as the individual doesn't then use religion as an excuse not to treat a patient. 5. No public funding should go to any organization that uses religion as a reason to exclude someone. 6. I've never heard of "ideologically driven cancellations" and i think this is merely a solution in search of a problem which is unsurprising given the tone of these questions. 7. You should be able to give to whomever you want without fear of public humiliation however we should not have dark money directing unsubstantiated arracks on individuals.
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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. Again this is a solution in search of a problem. There are no restrictions on parents receiving counseling for their children for whatever reason. However jsut because they don't like the results doesn't mean there is a restriction on it. 9. No one should be fired or otherwise discriminated against because they are LGBTQ+. 10. No one should be fired or otherwise discriminated against because they are LGBTQ+.
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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 public money to private schools. 11. Again a solution in search of a problem. No one is "forced" to use a pronoun they don't agree with. If a student has a given name but chooses to go by another name a teacher can use whichever name with which they feel most comfortable. Same with students. Of course, if those students bully the other person would you support their right to that? 12. If a parent is abusing a child would you want that parent to know their child has confided in a counselor at school? 13. Opt-out is stupid. Even opting out of sex education is stupid but I will allow for that. But allowing a parent to allow their child to opt out of a history lesson because they don't think the Civil War was over slavery is completely foolish and that is where legislation like this will lead.
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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. The "heartbeat" detected isn't a heartbeat at all so the first one foolish. 2. These organizations do a lot more than provide abortions and they deserve to have some public funding. 3. I'm a little more leery of this because there is always the possibility of abuse. However we can build enough safeguards into the legislation that should mostly eliminate that possibility