Matthew Kordon
Election Information:
Party:
Libertarian
District:
11
Office:
State House or Assembly
Contact Information:
kordonforliberty.org
https://x.com/Kordon4Liberty
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:
Regarding #5, Atheists should know I oppose many regulations that they might, as a large group in agreement, consider unethical similar to how Christians sometimes encounter regulations (that I oppose) that the Bible claims God is indirectly against. To be fair to people of all beliefs, regulations should be few and with convincing criticisms considered so that large minorities and majorities alike do not feel oppressed by a regulation. This will upset those who love regulations and telling others what to do, but their desire is less important than those who object. Regarding #6, organizations should be permitted to run their activities however they see fit (with a few rare exceptions) and the marketplace will reward or punish them and peer pressure them without the need for legal intervention.
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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:
Regarding #9, "Sexual Orientation" is not a choice and does no harm to anyone. There is no reason for discrimination unless on purely religious grounds or unless discrimination is fundamental to an activity, such as hiring an actor to play the role of a character who identifies as heterosexual (if the director wants someone who has the lived experience of the character they will be playing, the director should be permitted to decide who they hire and who they do not). Gender Identity is a choice but simply having gender dysphoria illness is not a choice. Choices should not be exempt from free speech or group property rights (the right to exclude). In a similar way, there is a time and place to discriminate against a protected class if the justification is clear and logically sound (a black man not being permitted to play a white woman in a movie to give an example).
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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:
Regarding #10, I prefer tax credits to vouchers and education accounts. In contrast with Republicans, I favor small government programs even in cases like this despite sharing a support for school choice broadly speaking. The Republicans in my state have raised private school funding by half a Billion dollars per two school years which raises taxes and is the government conquering what was previously independent schools. Regarding #11, your question is incomprehensible and I will not support something that I do not fully understand. I oppose teachers and students being allowed to force others to talk to them in a certain way. If they look female but insist they are male, the burden is on their shoulders to get everyone around them to agree to that notion. If the other people refuse to play along, that is their personal problem and now a crime.
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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:
With regard to abortion, my policy is making it illegal after the 16th week of the mother's pregnancy. That is the latest an abortion can occur in which scientists are confident the baby is not sentient. After week 16, there is a chance the baby will be able to sense and to some extent comprehend its own death, and a few weeks after that it can start to feel pain. Christians who draw the line at an earlier point may use their free speech to convince mothers to avoid abortion after a certain point in their baby's development. I draw the line at week 16 because killing a sentient human is cruel and evil enough to justify punishment regardless of someone's religious beliefs.