Sentences with phrase «if social liberal»

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«If it wasn't for families stepping forward to share their struggles publicly, the Liberal government would have continued taking child support money that rightfully belonged to kids,» said Michelle Mungall, New Democrat spokesperson for social development.

If those guys are largely right about the incentive factors that would then come into play (and especially if Americans were moderating their economic libertarianism with devotion to family, virtue, community, and God, as your work would urge them to), then by no means would that cause the social welfare policy disaster most liberals assume it woulIf those guys are largely right about the incentive factors that would then come into play (and especially if Americans were moderating their economic libertarianism with devotion to family, virtue, community, and God, as your work would urge them to), then by no means would that cause the social welfare policy disaster most liberals assume it woulif Americans were moderating their economic libertarianism with devotion to family, virtue, community, and God, as your work would urge them to), then by no means would that cause the social welfare policy disaster most liberals assume it would.

If millennials are only looking for alignment between their social views and the church, why is membership falling in liberal churches as well?

If the liberal definition of who Jefferson is is found to be faulty, it follows the foundation stones of much of the liberal political and social agendas are turned into sinking sand.

If they ever floated into view, unless chapter and verse were also quoted in a very circumscribed context, they were dismissed as «liberal», «socialist», «unrealistic», «under the law», «wimpy do - good social gospel» — you get the drift.

Even if we can not pray for some of these goals with much affirmation — even if we find ourselves praying for the salvation of liberals before Christ returns, or the redirection of evangelical social concern to its proper sphere of evangelism and world mission, or the disappearance of the electronic church — God will answer our prayers, with corrections if necessary, and will either change our minds or the minds of those for whom we are praying.

The communitarian critique of liberalism, whatever one may think of it as philosophy, has succeeded in reminding liberals that liberalism does have social and cultural presuppositions, and that these must be attended to if liberalism is to survive.

By implication, however, if it could be shown that the fetus is a separate life from that of its mother (for example, having its own genetic code from the time of conception), then even by liberal criteria there would be a crime with a real victim, hence prohibited by the social contract with its minimal requirement of protection of innocent persons.

If that is the case, then even for radical liberals the social contract has been irrevocably broken.

Liberals, conservatives, communitarians and libertarians all came together under the theory that many social ills would radically diminish if more people had the responsibility of home ownership.

If my own experience is anything to go by, by bringing him up a Catholic I may be condemning him to fights in the playground, bullying in the classroom, being endlessly baited at parties / lectures / social gatherings [always by self - professed open - minded liberals] and to seeing his faith lied about and depicted in wholly negative terms by every possible media outlet.

As Lenore said: we need to give money to the moderate and liberal candidates we favor — even if we are now living wholly or mainly on Social Security, as my husband I are now doing.

And before that, we need to give money to the moderate and liberal candidates we favor - even if we are now living wholly or mainly on Social Security, as my husband I are now doing.

The goals of both conservatives and liberals would be greatly advanced if they, like King, were to recognize that love is necessary for social cohesion, especially in a nationally, racially and religiously plural state.

Refusing to accept the ethical postulate conjoining self - realization and the social good which was at the heart of Dewey's ethics throughout his career, Rorty has argued for a «liberal utopia» in which there prevails a rigid division between a rich, autonomous private sphere that will enable elite «ironists» like himself to create freely the self they wish — even if that bares a cruel, antidemocratic self — and a lean, egalitiarian, «democratic» public life confined to the task of preventing cruelty (including that of elite ironists).

She is also a powerful polemicist: an acerbic social critic who pulls no punches in her articles in Commentary and the Wall Street Journal and her 1992 book If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews.

Demographers criticized the survey on methodological grounds for exaggerating the numbers of Orthodox Jews in the area, while representatives of Reform and Conservative Judaism and secular Jews warned that, if the survey's figures were correct, the New York Jewish community was leaving a golden age of liberal activism and intellectual modernism and entering a period of social insularity and religious obscurantism.

If those economies seem to strongly make the social democratic case, the question remains as to whether there are any strong examples which make the more market liberal case being advocated, of high pre-tax and transfer egalitarianism through a more equitable liberal capitalism?

If we can be 100 % confident of our statistics, it will be an important wedge issue persuading social liberals to call time on the orange book tendency and get out of the coalition.

If activists persist in supporting policies on the basis that they are infused with social liberal values and principles, rather than their popularity with the swing voter in the centre ground, then that is oh so endearingly and impractically childlike.

-LSB-...] to wonder if the Tories get economics at all (on a related note, see my latest article on the Social Liberal Forum).

What's New Labour if not social liberal?

If your local party or student branch would like someone from the Social Liberal Forum to speak at one of your meetings this autumn, please email [email protected] and we will do our best to meet your request.

I self - identify as both an economic and social liberal — but if we were States - side I would just as happily self - identify as a fiscal conservative and social liberal.

If this Bill is passed it will directly go against the founding principles of the Social Liberal Forum; by doing great damage to social juSocial Liberal Forum; by doing great damage to social jusocial justice.

Given that most Lib Dem MPs after the election will be on the social liberal side, and most of the members are too, and given the democratic nature of the party organisation it would not be surprising if they undermine their leader on these issues.

For them, if the party wants to rebuild its message and appeal post-2015, it will need a more socially liberal candidate, such as Tim Farron, who can steer the party's identity back in a social democratic direction.

Mr Blair took the unusual step of briefing the media about his concern that the Liberal Democrats would get nowhere if they moved to the left of Labour, demanded higher taxes and attacked his social exclusion initiatives.

Mr Blair has taken the unusual step of briefing newspapers over his concern that the Liberal Democrats will get nowhere if they move to the left of Labour, adopt a policy of demanding higher taxes and become more critical of his party's efforts to tackle measures such as social exclusion.

If he does, however, I think social liberal such as yourselves will have to start thinking about the long term future of the Lib Dems or rather your place in it.

That is more likely to happen if long - term infrastructure investment in social housing — that will also help control the welfare budget — starts now in the way the Liberal Democrats have articulated before and which our amendment restates.

The party needs to work with liberals and social democrats across the party divide to restate its position as a voice of the centre - left, and this is best achieved if we clearly communicate how our vision of a fairer, greener Britain differs from both Tory and Labour parties» current stance.

What is the Liberal Democrats» stall to be, if it is not a positive social Liberal blueprint for the future, different from the compromises necessary of coalition with George Osborne — the Coalition position?

If you are interested in getting involved with the Social Liberal Forum at a regional level, please e-mail Kelly - Marie Blundell at [email protected]

The Liberal Democrat leader said he feared «serious social strife» if an administration with minimal support raised taxes, laid off public sector workers and froze wages.

That might not be far from the truth: a 2015 study in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests liberals and conservatives think as though they come if not from different planets, at least from radically different cultures.

«If you're like a New England Republican, and you want someone who is conservative on economics and more liberal on social issues, well, you can just move the little dials and customize it however you want,» Fondrier says.

The site could label you More Liberal, for instance, if you consistently answer social issues like a tree - hugging peacenik.

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

Choosing the high school courses that will best prepare you for success in college can be a difficult process, and social studies, though an important subject for a strong college application, is easily overlooked, particularly if you aren't planning to enter a liberal arts program.