— Cloning of human cells. I oppose any attempt to facilitate the birth of a cloned baby. I am the lead sponsor of a bill that would criminalize reproductive cloning while allowing a cloning technique used in embryonic stem cell research to go forward under strict moral and ethical guidelines.

— Abortion. For both moral and religious reasons, I have always been strongly against abortion, except in extreme cases involving the endangerment of the mother's life, or rape and/or incest.

— Capital punishment. Capital punishment should be rare, but in some cases it is the only just sentence for certain heinous crimes. The death penalty can be an effective deterrent to crime if the sentence is administered equitably after a fair trial. The DNA law I authored is helping to ensure that DNA testing is conducted to prevent the innocent from being wrongly sentenced to death.

— Same-sex marriage: I don't believe in wrongful discrimination, but I do draw the line on attempts to redefine marriage. Traditional marriage is the bedrock of American society, and I oppose efforts by activist judges to impose their own definition of marriage on the people by legalizing same-sex marriage. I support the passage of a Constitutional amendment to allow the American people — rather than a few activist judges — to define this fundamental unit of our society.

8. Specifically say how you would "solve" the immigration problem in the short and long term, what programs you would begin, what would you do with the current 11 million estimated illegal immigrants now in the U.S.?

Immigration reform must start at the border, and we won't make any headway until we do just that. At the very least, we should put more focus on border security and interior enforcement right now. That's why I brought an immigration court to Utah and secured a Field Office Directorate in Salt Lake City that reports for us directly to Washington, D.C. While we are a nation of immigrants, we should not ignore the rule of law, so I oppose blanket amnesty. I would prefer that those here illegally return to their home country before seeking citizenship. In the long term, we need to develop a better way to track individuals who enter this country legally, provide employers with a reliable system to check the citizenship of those they hire, and establish a guest-worker program with a biometric identification that cannot be duplicated or counterfeited and that would require workers to return to their home country when their job is complete.

9. What is the one area where you see a real difference between you and your major party opponent?

I believe I represent the values and views of most Utahns.

10. Responses to questions from Democratic candidate Pete Ashdown: