Sentences with phrase «american conservative movement»

It's almost become a cliche to point out that Fox News is less a reliable news organization and more of an ideological agenda - setter for the American conservative movement.

There aren't many natural parallels between the physics of greenhouse gases emitted by burning fossil fuels and the biology of natural selection, but the American conservative movement depends on the cozy relationship between oil and the Christian right.

The most significant driving force behind climate change denial among CWM is not any ineffable psychological mystery but simply the increasing intensity and radicalization of the American conservative movement.

Their mission was to «consolidate the overall strength of the American conservative movement through unified leadership and action, mold public opinion, and stimulate and direct responsible political action.»

Although we are not formally affiliated with any other national conservative organization, we are recognized as the influential New York branch of the American conservative movement and maintain a close and cordial relationship with conservative organizations and public officials both in other states and Washington, D.C.

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Though Orthodox Jews tend to be more socially conservative on issues like gay marriage, the overwhelming majority of American Jews belong to the Conservative or Reform movements, or are secular, and all those groupconservative on issues like gay marriage, the overwhelming majority of American Jews belong to the Conservative or Reform movements, or are secular, and all those groupConservative or Reform movements, or are secular, and all those groups lean left.

In light of the last few weeks, the American conservative evangelical movement as a whole has been exposed as theologically thin in its doctrine and historically eccentric in its priorities.

About half of the Americans who identify as part of the Tea Party movement say they are also part of the religious right or conservative Christian movement, according to a survey released last year by the Public Religion Research Institute.

American Atheists hopes to use the forum to tap into the conservative movement and bring conservative atheists «out of the closet.»

Trump and the Future of American Democracy Thursday, November 16 Join Kirk on Campus for a spirited conversation about how the American conservative and progressive movements have been reshaped by the Trump presidency, and what it means for the future.

And it is precisely the idea of peoplehood that made Conservative Judaism the most popular movement in the 1950s and 1960s that has also made it fall out of favor for American Jews in the twenty - first century.

Yet most of those same observers, when pressed for an opinion as to where the vital juices are flowing in contemporary American religion, will call our attention not only to born - again conservative evangelicalism, but also to movements and tendencies that stand in a direct line of succession to the liberal traditions.

Despite an occasional nod to Edmund Burke or Friedrich Hayek, most American conservatives actively engaged in political life are singularly uninterested in attaining clarity about the character of conservatism as an intellectual movement.

Fact: Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement are mostly social conservatives, not libertarians on social issues.

Fact: Among Americans who consider themselves a part of the Tea Party movement, nearly half (47 percent) say they consider themselves to be part of the religious right or conservative Christian movement.

Fact: Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement make up just 11 percent of the adult population - half the size of the current conservative Christian movement (22 percent).

Again the other day, one runs across an article that observes in passing, as though it is taken - for - granted knowledge, that the conservative trend in our political culture reflects Americans» rejection of the civil rights movement of three decades ago.

«Ex-gay movement members, like other conservative Christians, view themselves as part of a positive transformation of American culture and religious life, often describing themselves as embattled or besieged by secular culture or the gay rights movement.

The various components, though, of a religious conservative movement in American public life must be defined clearly by their respective theological commitments, or we lose the Evangelical wing of this coalition.

By the 1960s Conservative Judaism was the largest denomination within American Judaism, and its leaders expected that the movement would continue expanding.

Two decades ago the Conservative movement was the largest denomination within American Judaism among Jews who belonged to a synagogue.

In the first few minutes of season two, Will McAvoy is in deep trouble with his corporate masters for calling the conservative Tea Party movement «the American Taliban.»

Shanker thought of himself as a liberal, indeed a Socialist; but for many liberals he seemed a racist conservative, as he maintained his fierce anti-Communist stance, supported American military power in defense of democracy, and insisted on the primacy of the trade - union movement in making a better society.

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

The second wave of reforms needed to transform American public education involve supporting policies such as implementing Common Core that are considered anathema for many reasons by many of their movement conservative fellow - travelers.

By arguing against implementing Common Core, movement conservatives opposed to the standards are implicitly supporting the continuation of policies and practices that both condemn the futures of at least 121 children every hour to despair and waste the $ 591 billion taxpayers devote to American public education.

Conservative reform outfits such as Fordham and players such as Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, who supported Kline's plan to eviscerate accountability (and have essentially accused with the rest of the school reform movement of race - baiting), also find themselves isolated.

Republican Congressman Paul Ryan called the American Enterprise Institute «one of the beachheads of the modern conservative movement.»

Such a point also shines light on the fact that EdTrust and other centrist Democrat reformers backing the plan have been silent about the Obama administration's sloppy and shoddy process for granting waivers, especially as President Barack Obama struggles to keep office; it is hard for waiver gambit supporters to complain about Florida's implementation of one of the alternatives to AYP they support without pointing out how the Obama administration's own mishandling of the effort allowed for such antics in the first place (or giving movement conservatives more reasons to oppose a strong federal role in reforming American public education).

Rather than feature the work of only a few artists or selected stylistic movements, the early Whitney aimed to convey the breadth and diversity of American art, from conservative portraiture to modernist abstraction.

The suit's lead plaintiff is a Buffalo leader of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political action group supported by oilmen David and Charles Koch that is linked to the tea party movement.

Writing of the movement back to local food economies, traditional foods (and family meals) and more sustainable farming, The American Conservative magazine editorialized last summer that «this is a conservative cause if ever there wasConservative magazine editorialized last summer that «this is a conservative cause if ever there wasconservative cause if ever there was one.»

For example, Instapundit sarcastically suggests that Onyango might be no safer in the U.S. if mainstream media reports about the Tea Party movement are credited, and «Christian American Conservative» Kingsjester speculates that Onyango's «relatives in high places» influenced the immigration judge's decision.