Sentences with phrase «christian coalition»

Or perhaps a way in — Gov. Schwarzenegger has certainly won some national friends with his vote, such as the Christian Coalition, while losing others, to Chris Nolan's point.

Combs is communications director for the Christian Coalition of America, a religious advocacy group whose president is her mother, Roberta Combs.

As a Christian who supports the Ten Commandments, I take issue with the letter purporting to speak on behalf of a «Christian Coalition.»

According to Driessen, this group includes among its membership «the Young Conservatives for Energy Reform, an environmentalist Christian Coalition of America, Citizens for Responsible Energy and Conservatives for Clean Energy (CCE).»

This 2016 creation includes Young Conservatives for Energy Reform, an environmentalist Christian Coalition of America, Citizens for Responsible Energy Reform — and Conservatives for Clean Energy (CCE), launched in 2014 as an «educational» and «charity» organization.

The reception and debate - watching party has been organized by Young Conservatives for Energy Reform, the Christian Coalition of America and the Ohio Conservative Energy Forum.

The list of interest groups touting phonics includes the Republican Party, the Christian Coalition, the American Family Association, and the Eagle Forum (Burnett, 1998).

Aligned against the «secularize or be shut out» approach is a growing coalition that now numbers more than seventy organizations including the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), the Council for American Private Education (CAPE), the Faith and Freedom Coalition, the Christian Coalition, the Association of Christian Schools International, the American Association of Christian Schools, and Agudath Israel of America, which represents the Orthodox Jewish community.

When Bill Clinton proposed voluntary national testing in 1997, he drew opposition from both ends of the political spectrum, including the Eagle Forum, the Christian Coalition, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the National Education Association.

The chairman of the House education committee recently professed to be unaware of the Christian Coalition, a lobbying organization that currently wields significant influence in Republican Party politics.

Right now, fresh from its boisterous «Road to Victory» convention in September, Pat Robertson's five - year - old Christian Coalition, the engine of the «pro-family» movement, is in great shape.

The elections generated national attention when the Christian Coalition, a conservative group led by the Rev. Pat Robertson, and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese...

Supporters of government vouchers that would allow students to attend schools of their choice got some practical tips here at the Christian Coalition's annual «Road to Victory» conference.

The Christian Coalition of America is a religious right activist organization considered allied with the party.

Rogers has a 92 percent rating from the Christian Coalition for his pro-family values voting record.

Many of the people that have latched onto the Christian Coalition and the Moral Majority are more in love with being the power behind the power than ministry.

Not sure if you are «the» Ralph Reed formerly of the Christian Coalition.

But Reed, who formerly led the Christian Coalition, charges that the controversy around calls for abortion bans without exceptions for rape or incest --- he says anti-abortion activists generally support abortions to save a mother's life - has been blown out of proportion by Democrats and liberals who want to paint the GOP as extremist.

Shortly after 9/11, Pat Robertson's retirement as president of the Christian Coalition prompted the Washington Post to ask Washington - based Religious Right leaders about a successor.

«The Christian Coalition gives Catholic dissenters on the right a place, politically, to go.»

Complicating the situation further is the fact that the Catholic bishops advocate many of the same positions taken by the Catholic Alliance / Christian Coalition, including strong opposition to abortion, and the selective return of power to state and local governments.

Bishop Howard Hubbard of Albany, New York, recently accused the newly established Catholic Alliance, an arm of the Christian Coalition, of attempting «to split Catholics from their bishops.»

The former head of the Christian Coalition has been out of the spotlight for years.

This new «Christian Coalition on steroids» was little more than a website two years ago, when Reed rolled out the organization.

«I guess the best way I would describe it is sort of a 21st century version of the Christian Coalition on steroids, married with Moveon.org with a sprinkling of the NRA,» Reed said in an interview with CBN's David Brody.

Why the former head of the Christian Coalition is drawing attention as a leader in the grassroots conservative movement.

This last election, the Christian Coalition distributed forty - five million voter guides on the Sunday before the election.

The Christian Coalition teaches people how to organize.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

In electoral politics, Christian Coalition, founded in 1988 by Pat Robertson and led for a few months more by Ralph Reed, is the major player in the field.

Public cynicism toward religion, and toward the Religious Right in particular, is exacerbated when an organization such as the Christian Coalition claims to be nonpartisan.

But for the most part the book consists of well - aimed, highly concentrated fire on the Christian right and the Christian Coalition.

That is why the Christian Coalition didn't support Pat Buchanan.

When is this ridiculous Christian Coalition going to lose its stranglehold on the republican party?

Neither the Republican presidential nor vice-presidential nomination will be decided without support from the Christian Coalition.

Today the movement is spear - headed by the Christian Coalition.

He founded the Moral Majority, the precursor of today's Christian Coalition, formed by Pat Robertson.

His evangelical ties: 700 Club televangelist Pat Robertson appointed Reed to lead the Christian Coalition.

Who he is: Reed made a name for himself as the director of the Christian Coalition for most of the 1990s, his efforts earning him a spot on the cover of Time magazine at age 33.

Both Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority and Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition envisioned an alliance of traditionalists, a true «religious right.»

His chapter on the efforts of the Christian Coalition to elect candidates to local school boards is titled «Religious Fascism,» although he says nothing about the agenda of the group that remotely justifies the use of that ugly word.

Jesse Jackson quoted on Christian Coalition, Washington Times, December 9, 1994.

He notes that PK is supported by «James Dobson's Focus on the Family, the powerful, radio - driven theocratic crusade that is to the right of the Christian Coalition and has twice its membership.»

«The Christian Coalition was a strong force in Germany» (when the Nazis came to power).

Here for instance is a speech given by the Rev. Jesse Jackson in New York and Chicago in which he compares the Christian Coalition to Nazis, slave owners, and Jim Crow segregationists.

Other groups, including the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Christian Coalition, and the American Jewish Committee, did not distinguish themselves by rushing to join the NCC - led panic.

Christian Coalition does NOT include Catholics, despite what the article says.

It is also unlikely he started a «Christian coalition», to legislate against Nero from crucifying Christians.

For starters, my father was a card carrying member of the Christian Coalition, and a staunch supporter of the Republican Party — he was even a delegate, oh boy!

Or forget all that research and let the Christian Coalition hand it to you on a silver platter.