Sentences with phrase «if social conservatives»

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To use a concrete example, if you have a million bucks socked away for retirement, drawing down $ 30,000 a year (in addition to any other sources like Social Security or pensions) is a conservative enough choice that you should be able to sleep at night, confident that even extreme swings in the market won't harm your ability to keep your portfolio healthy into your nineties.

If Kenney doesn't follow the lead of Brown, his fellow social conservative caucus colleague, it likely signals one of two things: he does want the support of voters for whom parental rights regarding their pre-adolescents and teens are a big issue; or that he's calculated that a softening of his image would show weakness and isn't worth it, because his party has such a comfortable edge over Notley that he can afford to lose voters wary of anything resembling social conservatism.

Mr. Byfield has been campaigning for more than a year and could make gains if he is able to tap into the base of social conservative voters in this constituency.

If Mr Jean hopes to make the Wildrose party the party of choice for all conservatives, including progressive conservatives, he'll have to do better than float a muddled vision that pussy foots around social issues.

If your pension and Social Security are enough for you to live on, you can be as conservative with your money as you like.

If you really believe there's a god in charge, social conservatives, then let him deal with women who abort their babies.

If Muslims would stop talking about their religion — Mullah's preaching would stop, Fatiwah's would decease, Hindu fundamentalism would be stifled, and Christian Fundamentalists couldn't muster support for social policies of the conservatives etc..

The social conservative leader added: «If this is where the ACU is headed, they will have to pack up and put away the «C» in CPAC!»

If understanding our case as above all a matter of protecting religious liberty rights means that social conservatives don't think or talk that way anymore, then we are in great trouble.

And if libertarians are afraid of conservatives» social positions, all they need to assuage their fears is a belief in their professed ideology — that small government will mean less involvement in people's personal affairs.

If the GOP allow their agenda to be dominated by the social conservatives they will just shoot themselves in the foot and give Obama 4 more years.

The asymmetry of criticism aimed at social conservatives vs. business interests implied that social conservatives should speak more softly and be happy with what (if anything) they get.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

If the «conservatives» do not stand for capitalism, they stand for and are nothing; they have no goal, no direction, no political principles, no social ideals, no intellectual values, no leadership to offer anyone.

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.

This is why it really could help Violet and her generation if more social conservatives, Porchers, dorm supervisors, student - activity administrators, school boards, and especially more Christian youth leaders, would consider the very practical sort of advice available in my second - favorite self - help book, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, by Elizabeth Kantor.

But if we expect a new birth of social conservative boldness in the GOP in the wake of this election, we will be disappointed.

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.

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Those are the people whom social conservatives need to reach if our political future is to hold anything other than endless defeat.

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.

Unlike the kind of social commentary that Hollywood still churns out — in which everything would turn out better if only conservatives weren't so busy oppressing homosexuals or women or maybe unionized employees — it isn't interested in easy sociological answers or cheap political point - scoring.

I don't know why everyone is so shocked at the Centre for Social Justice being explicitly Christian, its pretty obvious if you read all their publications historically - just read IDS» publication «Britain's Conservative Majority» from 2004 to see that he is anti-secular and he praises the American Christian right for their form, if not for their content.

And a united Labour, he adds, is the only way to win power from the Conservatives, because «if we learned lessons in 1981 to 1983, it's if social democracy is in real trouble and you split it still further you merely reinforce the majority of your opponents and that would happen - there is no question about it.»

The FT disapprovingly quotes our manifesto «The conservatives often talk about economic and social crises as if they are unavoidable, a law of nature... Conservatives have pursued a policy of blind faith in the market - serving the interests of the few rather than the general publconservatives often talk about economic and social crises as if they are unavoidable, a law of nature... Conservatives have pursued a policy of blind faith in the market - serving the interests of the few rather than the general publConservatives have pursued a policy of blind faith in the market - serving the interests of the few rather than the general public...».

The AfD could end up as the biggest opposition force in the national assembly if there is a re-run of the current coalition of Merkel's conservatives and Social Democrats (SPD)-- one of the most likely scenarios.

«If the issue is framed by her position on Pro-Life centers, there could be a problem during the general, but during a primary, social conservatives are under - represented,» according to Stites.

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.

And even if they did, there are other aspects of democratic republicanism, as I understand it - like building up social funds - which just don't fit with Conservative philosophy.

«If Mr Graves truly believes in civil liberties, in the environment, and in social justice he will be sadly disappointed by the Conservative Party.»

Even if he somehow won the GOP primary, you would see the same result as McCain and Romney where the social conservative base does not come out and vote.

He must adopt a social democratic agenda to win an election, and he will certainly lose it if he embraces an old Conservative one.

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.

Perhaps defying the basic intuition of some observers, Warshaw and Caughey found that state - level politics have been essentially «one - dimensional» from the 1930s onward — that is, if a state has conservative policies on economic issues, for instance, it will also have conservative policies on social issues.

«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.

If today's patriots are a big - tent group of conservatives and social justice warriors, Millenials and baby boomers, think tankers and classroom teachers, then our tyrants are devotees to hyper - partisanship, a one - size - fits - all philosophy, and a mindset that twists «equity» into opportunity for some, not all.

Some of these critical views have included parents voicing their concerns on social media describing the graduation ceremonies as ridiculous and even conservative critics have argued that «if this continues unabated down the age range, even to those too young to sit exams and receive grades, such awards have no point and could even damage the will to work for success.»

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

And if you believe, as do many conservatives, that government intervention in markets and in social arrangements should be kept to a minimum, you can find factual support for your views in the long - term unpredictability of regional climate behavior, the significant economic and social costs associated with shifting to more expensive energy sources, and the historical failure of government efforts to steer large - scale social and economic change.

Conservatives would not be against yet another tax if it were offset by, say, the Social Security tax.

Just because you label yourself a «conservative» because you want to conserve a certain social milieu (late 20th century US - style free - market «Judeo - Christian» if I understand correctly) doesn't mean you agree with «conservatives» in other cultures or times.

(C) even under very conservative assumptions, adding solar generation capacity (possibly with a certain amount of battery or other form of storage capacity) is a clear win, even if the social cost of carbon emissions is close to zero.

These results may be a function of Alberta's generally more conservative political and social values but are more likely a consequence of the geographic separation of parents owing to lengthy periods of site - based work in the oil patch or the interprovincial relocation of separated parents to take work in the province, making shared custody arrangements difficult if not impossible to implement.

The Conservative chair of Westminster's digital, culture, media and sport committee, Damian Collins, wrote to Zuckerberg stating his belief that representatives of the social network skirted questions about how other firms acquired and retained user data from Facebook, and if it had been done without their consent.