Phil Barnes

Strongly Disagree

As this question is worded, it is asking to deny funding that covers all other women's healthcare services based on one procedure. It has already been a law for decades that Federal Funding cannot be used for abortion services. But this would punish those who are seeking other needed healthcare.

At a minimum: a Non viability of a fetus; the life of the mother - before she is about to die; cases of rape and/or incest. But I am neither a doctor nor a woman. This is not something that should be regulated by legislature. I am wise enough to know that, legal or not, abortions are going to happen. I would rather have them happen in a safe, clean, medical environment.

Strongly Disagree

Biblically speaking, life begins at first breath. The Bible also treats a fetus as property, not life.

Strongly Disagree

An embryo is not a viable lifeform.

Strongly Disagree

Minimum Wage was started with the intent that anyone working full time should be able to afford to live comfortably. That ideal has not kept up with our economy. The Federal Minimum Wage was last raised in 2009.

Agree

It is not the role of the government to own businesses or control means of production. However, it is the government's role to regulate standards of safety for workers, environment, and consumers.

Stop no-bid contracts; investigate and prosecute Medicaid fraud by providers

It means that everyone in the United States is free to chose how to worship. It is your own personal decision that should be free of government interference via legislation. It also means the TN government needs to stop passing legislation based on their religious beliefs - which they have been doing for the last several years with laws like this year's The Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act. With 4000 denominations of Christianity, who's version should we force everyone to follow?

Agree

If you are choosing to discriminate against customers based on their personal freedoms not matching with your beliefs, maybe you're in the wrong business. Obviously, the services being offered are not against "their moral and/or religious beliefs." So, it is strictly about discrimination not about services offered.

Nothing will change as long as health insurance as a for-profit venture. While "A" should be the long term goal, we should definitely move to "B". The stigma of paying the government more money is the problem. Paying an estimated $2000 a year for universal healthcare instead of paying a private company $14,000-$30,000 a year just to have the card in your pocket, plus all the copays and deductibles, seems like a no-brainer.

Disagree

This sounds like a HIPAA violation ("a database of people" not just illness statistics) as well as a tactic to cut of treatment for people that are deemed too expensive. "[If they're going to] die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population." - Ebenezer Scrooge

Agree

Agreed, but so do many other countries. We cannot just focus on China. Why is this Administration aligning us with North Korea? They are helping Russia fight Ukraine.

I support the Israeli people. However, the current Israeli administration's [overre]actions make it hard to support their current government.

Neutral

We are told to welcome the stranger - not vilify them. “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God." Leviticus 19:33-34 (ESV) ‘Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’ Deuteronomy 27:19 (NIV)

Strongly Disagree

The DOE does not set school curriculum. It does help with educational standards, and ADA programs and compliance.

Neutral

Lower education isn't funded by foreign governments. Higher education accepting funding towards research programs is quite different than the implication of "funding American education", thereby manipulating curriculum that this question implies. Is funding from countries like England or Israel also to be included on this Foreign Contribution list?

Neutral

I support every parent's right to make decisions concerning their child. But school curriculum is best left to educators. Banning books is taking away parental rights to choose for their child.

Disagree

This question goes against the ideals of the former question about parents' rights to direct their child's health. This is not a "whim" decision and is not made lightly.

Strongly Disagree

"Traditional, Biblical marriage" is a misnomer. The Bible is filled with it's leaders having multiple wives and harems, women being forced to marry their deceased husband's brother, etc. Someone else's marriage should not affect the sanctity of your marriage. Marriage is more than a religious entity. It also covers societal legal implications as well. For example, being able to visit loved ones in the hospital, healthcare, property, etc.

Neutral

I would describe myself more as spiritual than religious. I have found most organized religions of any type are too exclusionary and do not fit my values of inclusion. I believe being a good moral person is not an exclusive trait of the religious.

Neutral

If it is a free government issued ID that is easily obtained, then I have no problem with it. But when you start requiring costly, hard to obtain IDs then you getting into voter suppression territory. It should not be harder to vote than to purchase a gun.

Neutral

This is a misrepresentative statement.

Disagree

There are approximately 10 Transgender women in collegiate sports out of 242,341 women. This is another scare tactic for a non existent problem. A true transgender person has gone through years of psychological care before transitioning. If you are fearful of a man saying "I feel like a woman today" to go into women's facilities then you are against a pervert, not a transgender woman. Transgender people are trying to not draw attention to themselves.

Strongly Agree

If you don't think we affect the atmosphere, just look at the before and during satellite photos during the 2020 world wide lockdown. Every year we set a new global temperature record.

I'm not a scientist. But I will listen to their recommendations. I feel we do need to move towards renewable, less pollutant energy sources than fossil fuel and coal.

Liberal

No

No

Enforcement of laws

Agree

Agree

Secular law should not be based on Sharia law. Nor should it be based on Christianity, Judaism , Budism, or any other religion. That goes against the Constitution's 1st Amendment.

Stronger background checks; closing gun show loopholes; banning weapons of war from being sold to the general public. Read more at trekforward.org