Peter Solie - Freedom Voter Guide

Party:

Libertarian

District:

109

Office:

State House or Assembly

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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:

2. Such organizations should be permitted to operate and advocate. Organizations on any side of this issue should not be taxpayer funded. 3. I am opposed to physician-assisted suicide. I do believe that pain relief at the end of life should not be restricted because I "might be addicted to it" or some other arbitrary argument.

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:

7. My example of this is the many white southerners that would have quietly donated to Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1960's and 70's. These individuals would have feared for the safety of their homes and businesses if those donations were required to be public. There are times when such activity should be shielded from public disclosure.

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:

9. a. I support that inclusion as long as there are state or federal benefits that are attached to the status. I believe that if a person is heterosexual or gay should have no impact upon their relationship to the government. In a perfect world, there would be no benefit or penalty to a person's status, so the inclusion for this question would be irrelevant. Since there currently are benefits associated with this status, I am unwilling to discriminate or deny those benefits. 9. b. This is a different issue than 9. a. This issue has been hyper-politicized beyond reason. I believe that the chronozones or biology determine the sex of the person. Gender is a reflection of a person's femininity or masculinity. That Femininity or Masculinity does not make that person a Woman or a Man. It does make them Masculine or Feminine. I should never be forced to change my language, but I may voluntarily choose to use a person's preferred pronouns.

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:

10. My fear is that in order to receive the money from the state, I must abandon my core beliefs or invest too much time in reporting. 11. See my answer to a previous question. I should never be forced to use such language. I may choose to voluntarily do it. 12. Must 13. I fully agree with this in principle. I am concerned, however, that this requirement may interfere with the natural discussion that happens in the classroom. I want students to ask hard questions and for the teacher to be able to address them fairly in the classroom. If we move to a system where legitimate questions are tabled until I submit a lesson plan - then I become opposed.

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:

15. Any organization that chooses to announce and enforce a policy as described in the question must be allowed to enforce such a policy without penalty. (maintaining the separation). I also believe that if an organization chooses to allow trans-women in such places, it should be allowed to do so, but that such a decision would reduce or eliminate their access to state funding. (the law would permit it, but funding would be eliminated). Restated... Every organization gets to set their policy as they wish. That decision will affect their access to state funding.