Sentences with phrase «christian family values»

One thing I should mention is that I strongly believe in traditional moral Christian family values and I like to date a woman who doesn't have a problem with that.

It's not like it involved a wave of acceptance of the concept of free love, exploration into knew spiritualism, a reavluation of morality and ethics, and the first real key stages in recognizing that the idealized «Good Christian Family Values» of the 50's were a lie and a sham, that often enough were just a cover for a an abusive house - hold, treating women like second class citizens, and culuraly engrained and supported bigotry.

The party of «christian family values» breaks all of them!

Now that's some mighty fine christian family values you have there HeavenSent.

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On a personal level, Pence and his wife, Karen, who are both devout evangelical Christians who have advocated for conservative «family values» for decades, were shocked and disturbed by the video.

He frequently cites the work of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists of family and gender relations whose views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and other practices that conservative Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.

There are too many Christian Sons of thunder, calling for «family values», and punishment.

«We believe the gospel is the answer to brokenness, as well as building family and community and modelling Christian values.»

One model that deeply embodies Christian values is a group of families pooling resources so as to reduce expenses and to free some of the adults to work as full - time volunteers for social and environmental causes.

Set up as a family - centered way of doing experiential Christian education and value formation, the clusters also have provided mutual caring and support.

Fenggang Yang, author of «Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities» and a professor at Purdue University, said Asians are drawn to Christianity partly by values that dovetail with Asian culture, including thrift, education and family.

Christian fundamentalists have been strong supporters of family values, the preservation of the nuclear family, the prohibition of sex outside of marriage.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.

Christian values — «thrift, education and family.»

Parents need the church to take the initiative in helping them to be self - conscious about the way Christian values and attitudes are related to family relationships.

Because we all know atheists aren't really Americans and have no right to participate in any national ceremony, regardless of wether they lost friends or family on 9/11, without being coerced into passively approving the Christian values that got all those people killed in the first place.

The Christian leaders will say it's all about life (anti abortion) but yet for 6 years (2000 - 20006) the self proclaimed pro-life family values party controlled the house, senate and whitehouse yet continued to do nothing to make abortions illegal in this country.

We had come through a terrible depression and a World War and understood the value of solidarity in the Christian family beyond sectarianism.

But experts on religion and politics say the message to one particular subculture — evangelical Iowans — is clear: Mitt Romney may be Mormon, but he shares evangelical Christian values, including a rock - solid commitment to family, and counts high - profile evangelicals like the Pawlentys as friends and supporters.

Other Republican hopefuls, Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition and such «cultural warriors» as Rush Limbaugh, former Secretary of Education William Bennett, and James Dobson, director of Focus on the Family, have claimed there is an encompassing social divide over morality and values.

Last but not least, Christian theology must provide a firmer foundation for care and justice, for standing against sexual and family violence, for healing the violated and for changing society's values and structures.

Change in the family may be experienced as the end of «the Christian home» because family values have been so closely related to religion in the United States.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which contains numerous references to values, especially in the context of marriage, the family, and Christian social doctrine.

He acknowledges that these values are rooted in his Christian faith, which serves not only as a personal anchor for him and his family but a powerful force for the greater good.

Readers of Al - Jumuah deal pretty ordinarily with the ordinary vexations of family life in America: How to stay connected with your kids, how to raise good kids who know the value of study and hard work, how to improve a marriage, all these from a Muslim perspective are explored, more or less in the same way they are examined in a Christian family magazine.

I think that we can all say if we're Christians, our family value is going to be to love God.

Parents who were reared to believe that the values of «the family pew» are the only option for Christians are confused when they discover that their children do not conform to those ethical values.

This general pattern has been intensified in American Protestant culture by the association of family values with Christian and American values.

In previous elections, he has encouraged Christians to vote based on family values over economics.

There are a few reasons why these legalistic approaches to gender roles are unnecessary impositions on Christian families and those seeking to participate in the life of the Church and why, without diminishing the importance and value of homemaking or childcare, we should not «shut the door to the kingdom» to families based on their socioeconomic status, unique callings and gifts, household structure, or earning arrangements.

I've heard the guy quoted by Christians as an authority on family values, despite the fact that he has had multiple wives and a drug problem... not to mention his foul, dirty mouth.

A great many Christians are g - ay, and it's silly to believe that marriage and family life are only BAAAAD when gay people value them.

Imaginative and exciting education, with specific courses targeted to children, youth and adults, dealing with Christian values and how they relate to current TV, film and video, is tailor - made for videocassette distribution to churches, schools and families.

Hate is not a Christian value or a family value.

Mormons are definitely Christians, and their values of family, faith and community service are exactly what we need in the White House.

We give witness that the Church's teachings — on the dignity of the human person and the value of human life from conception to natural death; on the meaning of human sexuality, the significance of sexual difference and the complementarity of men and women; on openness to life and the gift of motherhood; and on marriage and family founded on the indissoluble commitment of a man and a woman — provide a sure guide to the Christian life, promote women's flourishing, and serve to protect the poor and most vulnerable among us.

Several years ago, at Family Research Councils Values Voter Summit, Southern Baptist leader Richard Land said he'd vote for a Jewish pro-life politician who promised to raise his taxes before he'd vote in a Christian pro-choice candidate who promised to cut them.

Walmart has good christian values, making sure every child in the family has 15 billion dollars and that less than a 20th of a percent of it is donated.

Im not a Christian and I do not think that any religion has cornered the market on «morality» or «goodness» or «family values».

Some Christian leaders and publications pronounce a self - described unrepentant man a «baby Christian» or as representing «Christian values and family values.»

I saw a cultural Christianity with preachers who often gained audiences, locally in church meetings or globally on television, by saying crazy and buffoonish things, simply to stir up the base and to gain attention from the world, whether that was claiming to know why God sent hurricanes and terrorist attacks or claiming that American founders, one of whom possibly impregnated his own human slaves and literally cut the New Testament apart, were orthodox, Evangelical Christians who, like us, stood up for traditional family values.

Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.

It's not really that the food or service is Christian; the family just tries to run it according to their values, so they close on Sunday, try to hire smiling employees (a.k.a. «Christian» employees, as if only Christians are happy), choose to donate things to Christian organizations, etc..

But a family unit socializes into its own value system which may be more or less Christian in values learned by children from their parents.

The Christian family is the model for society, through which individuals are valued and learn to serve one another.

«Christians and God - fearing people to keep our family, moral and traditional values that our ancestors left us and that the Bible teaches us.»

Diaz fired off a letter to Hispanic ministers today emphasizing the importance of this year's election to «Christians and God - fearing people to keep our family, moral and traditional values that our ancestors left us and that the Bible teaches us.»

«We do expect more from people who at least call themselves Christians and have great family values,» says Tancredo, demanding an apology.

If a blatant, demonstrative violation of Family and Christian Values get confirmed, this may repel the Conservative Christian politicians from supporting Trump and may encourage them for a more active collaboration with the Mueller investigation.