Passion for family guides senator

Journalstar.com ^ | 3-30-2009 | JoAnne Young

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Mark Christensen, the senator with the boyish face from the far corner of southwestern Nebraska, has drawn attention and a good share of barbs from Nebraskans who disagree with his morality-loaded and conservative-minded bills. He has pursued topics of marriage, tobacco, adult sex businesses, concealed handguns and wildlife trapping this session, and in other years human cloning and reverse discrimination. When a story about his bills that would regulate sex-related businesses — strip clubs and escort services — was posted on JournalStar.com, indignant readers thanked him for bringing his “moral crusade roadshow” to eastern Nebraska. He would describe his three years in the Legislature as looking after families and the rights of women, children and men, and pushing for gun rights and solutions to water issues.He believes life starts at conception, that it needs to be protected at all costs, and that abortion and euthanasia are murder. He doesn't have a problem with birth control, as long as once conception occurs, nothing artificial interrupts it. He favors the death penalty, to provide justice to murder victims’ families. But if anti-death penalty senators would allow pro-lifers their way, “I'd trade that vote in a heartbeat,” he said. He seems most passionate about his marriage bills, like one he is still pushing to get out of the Judiciary Committee that gives an incentive for couples to get eight hours of marriage education.

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