Loren Hunt
Republican | Missouri
Candidate Profile
Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Loren Hunt
Party
Republican
Election Year
2014
Election
Primary
Race
State Representative, Dist. 130
Incumbent
No
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EDUCATION
Nebraska Western College, Scottsbluff, NE, 1979
Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ, 1986
WORK & MILITARY
Overnite Transportation, Operations Mgr, 4
Carolina Freight, Operations Mgr, 2
Combined Insurance, Sales Mgr, 2
LHT Enterprises Inc, Owner, 20
AFFILIATIONS
Berean Fundamental Church, High School Youth Group Leader, Grace Chapel
Deacon Chairman, Springfield Family Church, Deacon
First Evangelical Free, Deacon Chairman, First Evangelical Free
Adult Sunday School Teacher, Springfield Homeschool Knights, Board Member/Athletic Director/Coach
MO Right To Life, Member, NRA
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
(Candidate did not provide)
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
State Representative, 1
Race
SCORECARDS
CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS
ENDORSEMENTS
CONSERVATIVE (1)
Missouri Club for Growth
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (1)
MO Club For Growth
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
1. Free enterprise and the right to private property turn mankind's natural self interest into the fairest and most productive economic system there is, and are the key to national prosperity.
Strongly Agree
2. Election of judges by the people for a definite term of office is the best way to select judges.
Strongly Agree
3. More restrictive gun control laws are needed now to protect public safety.
Strongly Disagree
4. Efforts to bring Islamic law (shariah) to America do not pose a threat to our country and its Constitution.
Strongly Disagree
5. Government should enforce laws designed to protect the border and to prevent illegal entry of persons into the country.
Strongly Agree
6. People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
7. Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Strongly Agree
8. Marriage is a union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.
Strongly Agree
9. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) should be repealed by Congress.
Strongly Agree
10. There should be a strict constitutional spending limit for state and local governments that would tie the rate of spending to the rate of population growth plus the rate of inflation.
Strongly Agree
11. Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality which permitted our system of limited government.
Strongly Agree
12. Free market competition for education dollars, rather than a government monopoly, would create a better education for all students.
Strongly Agree
13. Where minor children are involved, divorce laws should be reformed to include mutual consent of both parents and an increased waiting period, unless there is fault or abuse.
Strongly Agree
14. The Ten Commandments should not be displayed in public school buildings.
Strongly Disagree
15. Religious freedom is our most foundational freedom and deserves added protection in our state and federal constitutions.
Strongly Agree
16. The founders established pure democracy in the Constitution because they believed that it is the best form of government to ensure the safety and equitable treatment of all citizens.
Strongly Disagree
17. Our state should participate in the nationwide Common Core standards for high-school graduation.
Strongly Disagree
18. What in the nature of mankind caused America’s Founders to carefully define, separate, and limit powers within the Constitution?
The Founding Fathers were explicit in their understanding of the fallen nature of man that would lead to treachery if any one person or group of individuals were entrusted with absolute power, or even too much power. Their intention was to create a system of checks and balances that would prevent the absolute corruption that comes with absolute power.
19. Based on the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, please arrange the following entities, starting with the highest source of authority, and continue the list in descending order of authority, skipping any that do not apply: Academia, Congress, Constitution, God, Industry, Media, Professional Sports, Supreme Court, Voters.
God, Constitution, Voters, Congress, Supreme Court.
20. Should abortion be allowed under extenuating circumstances? If so, what circumstances?
Never. Life begins at conception. It is never right to place less value on an unborn child than any other life. Abortion is murder, it intentionally ends a life. There is no debate about that without being Biblically incorrect.
21. Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
I believe all mankind is born with a sinful nature that bears a sentence of eternal death and separation from God. God loved all mankind enough to offer us an eternal life with Him where no sin is allowed, but that offer requires the sin payment of death to be paid. God demonstrated His love toward us in sending His only begotten Son, Jesus, to be born of a virgin, live a sinless, pure life on earth and to die as a sacrificial Lamb, taking upon Himself all the sins of the world. Jesus rose from the dead to demonstrate the power of God over sin and death. God has offered all mankind the choice of accepting Jesus' death as payment for our sins and believing that, at the moment of our physical death, we will be set free from sin and it's power forever, but only if we make the individual choice to confess there is no other way but through Jesus' substitutionary death and resurrection. I've believed that and strive to live a Biblically-based, moral life that pleases God.
