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What Political Party Are YOU?

Answer Choice

•SA – Strongly Agree•A – Agree•D – Disagree•SD – Strongly Disagree

1. The US should pass a gender discrimination

amendment.

2. The national government should not establish a federally funded medical program so that

all persons would have equal access to medical services.

3. It should be legal and constitutional to say prayer at the

beginning of assemblies in public schools.

4. Sexual preference should be a criteria for acceptance

into military service.

5. Persons receiving the death penalty should be limited in the

number of appeals. The sentence should be carried out in a shorter

period of time than it is now.

6. The Supreme Court should reverse its decision on abortion

and make it more difficult to have an abortion

except in very special cases.

7. The U.S. should lower the tax rate on the sale of

stocks and bonds.

8. Parents should be able to send their students to any school they choose and tax money should be used to

support the schools that the parents choose regardless if the school

is religious in nature.

9. City police should be able to confiscate any materials that are

deemed to be obscene or pornographic according to

community standards.

10. Laws should not be passed that limit the sale of

certain types of weapons that are used for hunting or other legitimate sporting purposes.

11. The federal government should be

required to have a balanced budget regardless of

programs that might have to be cut.

12. Sex education should never be

included in school curriculum in any

public school.

13. Student lockers should be searched on

a random basis for illegal materials by police and/or school

officials.

14. The federal government should

repeal the

minimum wage law.

15. Laws should be passed to make it illegal for public employees such as the

police, firefighters, teachers, and garbage collectors

to go on strike.

16. Public schools should be required to teach

biblical creationism in all classes that teach the theory of evolution.

17. The U.S. should require temporary sterilization of all

unmarried women on welfare if they have

more than two illegitimate children.

18. Birth control information and nonprescription

contraceptive devices should not be made

available on high school campuses.

19. Evidence that is obtained

unconstitutionally, but honestly and

unintentionally, should be admissible in court and used against a suspect.

20. There should be occasional and random drug testing of federal

government employees.

21. Requirements for any military duty, including combat, should be based

partially on gender.

22. If two equally qualified persons apply

for a job and one of them is a minority, race should play no

role in the hiring decision.

23. Certain literature should be banned in public libraries if it is

determined to be improper or too

controversial by the librarian or a review

board.

24. A person's right to free speech under the First Amendment

does not include burning the American

flag in protest.

25. As a general directive, the federal

budget should

spend less money on

health and education

than on the military.

26. A history of human rights violations or racial discrimination should not play a role in deciding if the US should impose economic penalties

on a foreign nation.

27. The federal government should not

attempt to prevent mergers of large or small corporations.

28. The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and similar groups that take

many cases to court claiming constitutional

rights have been violated usually cause more

problems

than they solve.

29. Finding an alternative to nuclear energy and

stopping the construction of radioactive nuclear

power plants

is not necessary.

30. The death penalty is clearly not a form of cruel and unusual punishment.

31. Sexual harassment in the workplace is not a serious problem and should be enforced by the US legal system

only in the most blatant situations.

32. Prisons should

punish criminals,

not rehabilitate them.

33. The states should enforce penalties for

gambling, prostitution, and other victimless

crimes.

34. The FBI and CIA should be able to

wiretap the phones and read the mail of

any suspected criminal.

35. The federal government must place business's importance

above that of the environment.

36. Most adults on welfare are lazy and

not trying to find work.

37. Profanity and sexually-oriented

material on the Internet should be outlawed by the federal and state

governments.

38. The US must limit the flow of

immigrants into the country.

39. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance

should not be able to march freely in public

Points for responses:• SA = 1• A = 2• D = 3 • SD = 4

39 -----------------97.5----------------- 156The lower your total score, the more conservative you are and the higher the score, the more liberal you are.