Tim Conrad
Election Information:
Party:
Republican
District:
26
Office:
State House
Contact Information:
www.timconrad4de.com
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:
In terms of free speech zones, since when was our right to free speech to be limited to where insecure powers-that-be could tell us? There should be no such thing as "safe speech zones". This is a slippery slope leading to free speech being replaced by sanctioned speech. Especially on college campuses, students need to be able to express themselves and also learn that with rights come responsibility. If speech makes someone uncomfortable, discuss why that is. Don't silence it until further notice. We are not Venezuela or Cuba.
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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:
Gender Identity is a personal thing. It should not be forced upon other people as it is nowadays. Let parents and children figure things out together. Biological males should not compete in female sports. We criticized East Germany for this when it benefitted them at the Olympics at our expense. Curious now how we support such things when it works to benefit our standing now.
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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:
Some of these questions are biased in their presentation, thus answering the questions seems to be a "gotcha" situation. Our society does not perpetuate racism. All the fighting and dividing and regard for certain demographics today seems to perpetuate that. We still have a long way to go before we are more mature and egalitarian in society. Hearing that the choices people make about seemingly mundane things may be based in racism in some way really gets tiring to hear or read. Can we move past this?
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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:
While I personally may support or oppose those issues indicated, my philosophy is a bit more personal. These decisions - at least in the case of abortion - are very personal and difficult. Abortion is a medical procedure, and while I have huge difficulty supporting the practice, I know I will also never be faced with the decision. Through education and empathy we can teach others how to value life. While we seek to place conditions on the procedure, it honestly is not any of our business what others decide to do with their physicians. We always say, "except when the mother's health is endangered,' and so forth, and that's rare. Abortion should be rare and a last resort, and it also should not have all the attention is has currently. As for physician assisted suicide, I worry that this will be used to for nefarious reasons in the future should the letter of the law be written in such a way as to be so construed. Instead of focusing on how and whether we should have the right to kill each other, why don't we focus on healing and thriving?