Josiah LaRow
Election Information:
Party:
Libertarian
District:
20
Office:
State House
Contact Information:
www.electjosiahlarow.com
https://www.facebook.com/ElectJosiahNV/
@JosiahLaRow
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:
To all the questions above, individuals have the right to freely associate or not associate with whomever they choose. The state has no jurisdiction regarding this. The only entity that cannot discriminate in the manner above is the government, thus the exercise of free speech cannot be infringed on publicly run universities. Private institutions can decide what is best for their individual circumstances, though I will always advocate and support those businesses, organizations, and institutions that provide the freest environment for their customers, constituents, and students. Transactions between free individuals can be as private or public as those individuals wish them to be. Market forces may create an environment in which disclosure of donor information is in the best interest of the parties involved, but it should not be forced by government edict.
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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:
The issue of sports, who can and cannot compete, where or when is not in the purview of government. My personal viewpoint is irrelevant as the state should have nothing to do with competitive sports. The issue of child rearing and education is not in the purview of government. The question is worded poorly. I believe that the parents have the right to seek professional counseling for children struggling with any many of issues; however, psychological and physical abuse of children is immoral and a violation. Children are extremely malleable. There should be a distinction between counseling in support of the child and that which is in support of an outcome predetermined by the parents to the extent that the child's wellbeing is endangered. I am dubious as to if this is possible, because arguments then could be made preventing other parental decisions. I am concerned with the laws currently on the books concerning protected classes. Although, I believe it is good practice for businesses to not discriminate, I don't believe it is the job of the government to enforce such things. I believe in freedom of association, and many of these laws limit this.
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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:
As I mentioned previously, the education and rearing of children is not the business of government. That being said, I believe that the government should get out of education completely. Since that is unlikely to occur in the near term, any step towards more educational freedom is a step in the right direction. Educational savings accounts, vouchers, etc. are a good way to reintroduce competition into the education of students. This will give parents the opportunity to choose schools and curricula that best suit their needs. This could include teaching subjects that I personally have an issue with (#13), but based on what parents choose, could be included in some schools. Since none of the education is forced on parents/students, there would be no need to prohibit certain subjects from being taught to the students that desire that knowledge or parents that choose if for their children. The more freedom that exists in education, the better it will be.
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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 is a complicated issue, because laws that are written with the best of intentions can and will have unintended consequences. Many abortion bans are ambiguous in regard to things such as infertility treatments and invitro fertilization where multiple embryos can be created without ultimately being uses. Morally speaking, I believe that an abortion is killing a baby, but it is hard for me to advocate for a complete abortion ban due to extenuating circumstances like those I listed above. However, we must rid the statutes of potential conflict in cases of murder/manslaughter where an unborn child can be considered a second victim in the case of the death of the mother. An unborn child is either a person deserving of protection or not. We cannot have it both ways with the only determining factor being whether the child is wanted or not. That is immoral, plain and simple. Ultimately, I believe that taxation is theft, so any use of taxpayer dollars is inappropriate. That being said, some uses are worse than others. Using taxpayer dollars to fund such a divisive practice is worse than funding something like the court system. Funding of something like a shooting range would likewise be inappropriate, as there is a large sector of the population that take issue with gun ownership. Eliminating as many taxpayer funded items as possible is preferable. One of the foundations of freedom and liberty is that we are sovereign over our own bodies. To this end, we should have the right to end our lives on our own timetable. I do not advocate for suicide, but I cannot, on principle, advocate for its prohibition. A patient, in a proper frame of mind, should be able to enter into a contract with another individual to end their life. This should be witnessed to ensure accuracy and other documentation could be necessary to ensure that the wish to end one's life is legitimate and carried out properly.