Mike Schietzelt
Election Information:
Party:
Republican
District:
HD 35
Office:
State House or Assembly
Contact Information:
mikeschietzelt.com
@mikefor35
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
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:
As a constitutional law fellow and First Amendment professor at Regent University, I take the First Amendment's protections seriously. Regarding religious liberty specifically, I've authored briefs to the United States Supreme Court in support of overturning Employment Division v. Smith and TWA v. Hardison, and I was thrilled to see the latter precedent fall in the Groff case. I've also written at length about strengthening the Free Exercise Clause's protections in both the Regent University Law Review and the Wake Forest University Law Review.
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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:
My support/opposition to question 9 really depends on whether the proposed SOGI laws contain adequate protections for religious organizations or for artists like Jack Phillips and Lorie Smith. I'm also troubled by the expansion of the term "sex" to include sexual orientation and gender identity following the Bostock opinion and the way that the current administration has reinterpreted Title IX to completely undermine the purpose for which it was originally passed.
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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 |
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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:
I was proud to support Mississippi and ADF in the Dobbs case as counsel for amici curiae Robertson Center for Constitutional Law and Christian Legal Society. My qualified opposition to a heartbeat bill stems from my philosophical opposition to using prohibitions to push the culture. Survey after survey—from pro-life and pro-abortion organizations—shows that three-quarters of women who have abortions do so because they feel they had no other choice. In other words, women perceive significant barriers to choosing life for their children. We need to work to remove those barriers. The North Carolina General Assembly took important steps this last biennium to creating a culture that supports life, pouring resources into community organizations that help women in crisis. I would love to see those resources increase significantly.