Sentences with phrase «conservative civil war»

It was a shrewd move that could be a decisive win for Mr. Prentice in the Conservative Civil War that the two parties have waged against each other since the mid-2000s.

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Will the sign of caucus support for Ms. Smith's leadership put an end to the Wildrose «civil war» between pragmatic and ideological conservatives that Mr. Anglin referred to in a Facebook post yesterday?

The rot found its way into Braaten's own church and seminary» a process hastened, in Braaten's telling, by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago's acceptance, in 1983, of ten faculty members who had lost their positions at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in the 1970s civil war between moderates and conservatives in the Missouri Synod.

If there is any group of people that should be opposed to war, torture, militarism, the warfare state, state worship, suppression of civil liberties, an imperial presidency, blind nationalism, government propaganda, and an aggressive foreign policy it is Christians, and especially conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist Christians who claim to strictly follow the dictates of Scripture and worship the Prince of Peace.

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.

The conservative mass of people, recovering from the shock of civil war, acknowledged that Luther might be in the right on many matters but were waiting to see whether, after the war, an excommunicate and an outlaw still had might on his side.

Claiming that most Conservative MPs believe in a referendum, he rejected Sunday newspaper headlines about «Tories in turmoil» by arguing on the same programme: «You can't have a civil war when everyone's on the same side.»

Boles, a member of the so - called «Notting Hill set» and Remain supporter, compared the rifts in the Conservative party caused by Brexit to the split allegiances during the Spanish Civil War.

Prior to Theresa May's anointment as Conservative leader — when the Tory party was undergoing its own post-referendum civil war and the inept, inexperienced, uber right - wing Andrea Leadsom was looking like a plausible contender — Labour was still polling seven points behind.

There's a recognition that while Democrats have been the historic supporters of LGBT rights in the most recent decades, the advocates realize they need Republicans — in a midst of a civil war between a Libertarian wing and a more socially conservative wing — to take up their cause as well.

But another Tory grandee, Lord Heseltine, said in doing so it could lead to «civil war» within the Conservative party.

In a ten - county district that has been Republican since the Civil War, Democrats tapped attorney William Owens for the race and the Conservative Party has given its ballot line to businessman Doug Hoffman, who lost the blessings of GOP chieftains to Scozzafava.

WASHINGTON — President Trump's personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter «has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.»

But with the Conservatives bracing themselves for civil war after the EU referendum, David Cameron will be hoping his man can secure a third term for the Tories in City Hall to prove he is still a vote winner.

The world of the books and game is a rather bleak one, with extreme liberal and conservative political beliefs polarizing the United States to the point of starting a second Civil War.

The high - profile slayings of black men such as Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and Freddie Gray just exemplify the problems of overmilitarized police departments, overcriminalization of youth, perpetuation of state - sanctioned racial bigotry, drug war overkill, and violations of civil liberties by law enforcement that have been detailed at length by progressives, conservatives, and libertarians alike.

The plot primarily follows two trajectories: life during and just after the Nigerian Civil War (July 1967 — January 1970), and the protagonist's growing sense of sexual identity in a conservative Christian culture.

But since Trump, with no ties to either camp or its ideology, defeated a raft of other candidates for the presidential nomination last year, the Republicans have been cast into a growing civil war between mainstream conservatives, Tea Party - inspired libertarians, and the xenophobic and misogynistic groundswell that Trump has proven expert at tapping into.