Ken deGraaf
Election Information:
Party:
Republican
District:
22
Office:
State House or Assembly
Contact Information:
KenDeGraaf4HD22.com
@COrepKdeGraaf
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 |
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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) Parents should not be restricted from resources to help their children overcome the pervasive sexualization occurring at all levels of society, even our public libraries (RatedBooks.org). The multi-billion-dollar genital-mutilation industry is very well funded, politically powerful and actively seeking to fetishize children. The movement has successfully posited itself in victimhood while promoting experimental surgery and suicidal ideation. Children need to be protected from sexualized grooming to enable a healthy future free of perpetual pharmacological dependence. "Gender Affirming Surgery" destroys healthy and functional tissues and parts in exchange for experimental and non-functioning grotesques of the genitalia of the opposite sex while declaring that genitals do not define gender. Juveniles are unable to provide informed consent for life-altering irreversible decisions about destructive and experimental procedures that often subject them to a lifetime of pharmaceutical bondage, perpetual infections, misery & death. 9) The role of government is to collectively protect the individual Rights that precede government--Life, Liberty, Property--not to unjustly use the collective force of government to manipulate and coerce behavior. Since everyone by definition has "sexual orientation" or "gender identity", neither of which is objectively defined or immutable, using either as a protected class would be unworkable as well as immoral.
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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:
11) Pronouns are indicators of the chromosomally-determined sex of an individual and have nothing to do with the social expression of an individuals clothing, mannerisms or preferences. Pronouns are as old as language while "gender" as an identity was introduced in the 1950's. 12) With very few exceptions, parents represent the best interests of their children. Precluding parental involvement leaves minors susceptible to predation or even misguided "good intentions." 13) Parents have the responsibility to protect their children from ideological indoctrination. Non-transparency is a clear indication that the child's best interests are being violated.
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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) Our Rights are recognized by our founding documents as being endowed by our Creator--as originating above the level of government. Rights as Creator-Endowed--originating above government--can only be claimed to the extent that we recognize them in others. We cannot claim a Creator-Endowment if we deny it to others in the recognition and protection of their Rights. As all humans exist on the as a clump of cells on the spectrum between conception and death, there is no logical point to deny personhood and either all persons have Rights or none do. If there is nothing above the government, then what we consider unalienable Rights become precarious privileges "because (even) his life is no longer a mere bounty of nature, but a gift made conditionally by the State." 2) Fetal harvesting organizations must be self-funded as feticide violates the government's mandate to preserve life, and compelled participation violates "consent of the governed" in the termination of an unborn person. 3) Part of Hippocrates idea to “do no harm” includes “I will not give a lethal drug to anyone.” While the "death with dignity" sentiment is understandable, the practice quickly devolves into one of coercion, and allowable under trivial or fleeting circumstances. An administrative framework is too easily modified and expanded to provide the proper safeguards. As a rule, "if a law can be weaponized against you, it will be" and euthanasia is a Pandora's box of full of death.