2022 NH Governor's race: on Civil Rights


Karen Testerman: Against banning of discredited gay conversion therapy

In 2018, she broke from the state Republican Party and resigned as chairwoman of the Merrimack County Republican Committee over disagreements on policies around same-sex marriage and gay conversion therapy. At the time, Testerman disagreed with Gov. Chris Sununu's 2018 decision to sign a bill that would ban the use of child conversion therapy--a discredited process that attempts to convert children from being gay to being straight.

Testerman said she also opposes efforts in recent years to expand gender identity protections.

"In my opinion, God made man and God made woman, and the idea that there's a gender and there is some confusion--those are mental health problems," she said. "That again, is something that needs to be left up to the parents of those children to deal with. Once an adult is an adult, whatever they choose to do is fine."

Source: Concord Monitor on 2022 New Hampshire Gubernatorial race Jun 12, 2020

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Candidates and political leaders on Civil Rights:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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