Jordan Evans

Election Information:

Party: 
Democrat
District: 
House District 07
Office: 
State House or Assembly

Survey Responses:

S = Support
O = Oppose
NR = No Response
Life
S O NR
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
Candidate's Comments:
The government should support access to healthcare and never interfere in the relationship between doctors and patients.
First Amendment
S O NR
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:
The freedom of religion and association are protected individual rights. However freedom of speech and association is not freedom from consequences, only from suppression of your rights by the government. The public interest in knowing who is funding non profits and politicians is essential to good governance.
Family
S O NR
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:
I support certified medical and mental health professionals working with families and do not wish to interfere with that relation ship. I am opposed to self certified counselors acting outside of accountability to the established state and federal oversight bodies to offer “counseling” that is not recognized by mental health professionals as valid or safe.
Education and Public Safety
S O NR
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:
The first amendment does not allow the establishment of a religion, and using tax money to fund religious activity is a hard line that I will never be willing to cross. I support parents having as much information about their child as possible, however exceptions to protect children who are confiding abuse by parents to trusted adults should be in place to protect the child.The issue of pronouns is something that can be worked out on an individual basis and is a question of etiquette and conscientiousness, not one of lawmaking
Health and Welfare
S O NR
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:
Again, freedom of religion is not freedom of consequence. If a religious institution can not hire people based on their beliefs, other professions have the right to not hire or terminate people who refuse to do their required job duties. The exception here would be government work, which should always respect religious diversity and make accommodation for individual beliefs if reasonable. As for life affirming pregnancy centers: if they are not medical facilities they cannot pretend to be medical facilities.This is counter to public health and is dangerous. If they are medical facilities they should comply with all regulations and requirements.