"Religious conservatives" refers to individuals who hold traditional religious beliefs and values and tend to support maintaining traditional social and moral norms within their religious community.
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religious conservatives will expect their white allies to address issues too often seen as «Democratic» by their constituencies — such as racial bias in sentencing.
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religious conservatives did not appear to be morally mollified by this technique, and even many scientists have taken a dim view of the experiments.
Farris» reaction is a stark emblem of the disappointment
among religious conservatives over Santorum's announcement, and a reminder that Romney's enthusiasm deficit among the conservative evangelicals who form the GOP's base hasn't gone away.
Liberal commentators, both religious and secular, have cheered what they take as the recent comeuppance Catholic and
other religious conservatives received in the sections of Evangelii Gaudium, the Pope's recent apostolic exhortation, that touch on market economics.
They listen to the new
religious conservative movement calling for «a return to the traditional family,» which seems to include the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment and the banning of abortion.
Trump, speaking in Iowa at a conference of
religious conservatives on Saturday, said McCain «is a war hero because he was captured.
(CNN)- For all the attention paid to the clout of fiscally focused tea party conservatives and of the primacy of jobs in the 2012 election, Rick Santorum's trifecta victories Tuesday night are a good reminder of the powerful role
religious conservatives play in the GOP.
Shortly after Foer's article appeared, Norman Podhoretz, whom Foer had cited in support of his argument, published an essay in National Review on Jewish attitudes
toward religious conservatives.
I think that most right
wings religious conservatives would hate Romney and consider him the antichrist if they only had someone other than Obama to vote for.
What really animates Hedges» anger
at religious conservatives, however, is their recent political power and success on the state level at banning same - sex marriage ¯ an issue that has been central to Hedges since his father made him start a gay - rights group at college.
As he announced Wednesday that he'll seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, it's clear that Gingrich is aware of the huge
role religious conservatives play in the GOP primaries.
eHarmony was founded by evangelical Christian Dr. Neil Clark Warren and had ties with the influential
religious conservative group Focus on the Family.
Sixty - three percent of political and
religious conservatives support allowing women and couples in the developing nations to determine the timing and spacing of pregnancies in a manner that includes the voluntary use of methods of preventing pregnancy — not including abortion — that are harmonious with their religious values and beliefs.
The Iranian leadership has its own internal life - and - death skirmishes, with the Iranian president Ahmadinejad in a nasty ongoing power struggle with others, most
notably religious conservatives and his own military.
Despite the demonstrable negative consequences in states that have passed laws that undermine LGBTQ equality, the coming months will indicate whether the ascent of Donald Trump to the White House is
emboldening religious conservatives to press for more such bills after a series of gains for gay and transgender people at the federal level under the Obama administration.
They've spent much time and effort
courting religious conservatives, knowing full well that what some of these people want is so extreme that it would scare off centrist voters.
In today's «On the Square» article, Too Often Prophetic, I suggest why they shouldn't use it nearly so much, and
why religious conservatives should avoid their own equivalent terms.