Sentences with phrase «as conservatives people»

As a conservative person, given current understanding of greenhouse gasses, I feel we should work to mitigate the problem as soon as possible so as to reduce the cost and impact.

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But as I get older, I've got to be careful not to get more conservative in my decision - making, which some other people do.

The temporary foreign worker program has ballooned under the Conservatives from about 100,000 people in 2002 to as many as 338,000 now working across the country.

As the Supreme Court gets ready in June to rule on the issue for the second time in two years, conservative states have rushed to enact so - called Religious Freedom Reformation Act (RFRA) laws that would allow businesses to object on religious grounds to serving LGBT people and same - sex couples.

«Rand is one of the only people who can speak to libertarians, social conservatives, as well as your average mainstream Republican voter.»

«RRSPs are a terrible tool for small business people, and that's why many don't use them,» Ottawa MP Pierre Poilievre, newly minted Conservative leader Andrew Scheer's pick as finance critic, said in an interview.

On Monday, two powerful conservative leaders in the House declared the blueprint unacceptable because it relies on giving people refundable tax credits to purchase insurance — a policy mechanism that, in a very rough sense, resembles Obamacare's subsidies to buy mandated health coverage (and is therefore being slammed by conservatives as just another entitlement program).

But other issues, such as providing tax credits to encourage people to buy insurance (while not outright mandating coverage), have proved controversial to conservative lawmakers who have described the plan as «Obamacare Lite.»

Also, they have chosen a cheap populist theme, attacking cell phone, bank and credit - card charges instead of hammering the Conservatives on their dangerous, right - wing deregulation agenda — even though people are still dying as a result of Harper's «self - regulation» changes to food safety.

Top Republican insiders are not so quietly taking up Ryan as the one person who could unite the warring establishment and grassroots conservative wings of the party.

The person who leads it will need to win an open leadership contest, just as Stephen Harper did in 2004 for the new federal Conservative party.

«At this Conservative Party conference, we'll be setting out very clearly how, as Conservatives in government, we will build the road for a better future for people.»

Back in 2014, it was a good idea for Trudeau and the Liberals to start thinking of Conservatives as neighbours — as people with whom they would have to find common ground.

Efforts to launch an outside group supporting Trump's agenda have stalled amid fighting between Kushner loyalists, such as the campaign's data and digital strategist Brad Parscale, and conservative donor Rebekah Mercer, according to people familiar with the tensions.

«People in Ottawa talk about the «Conservative base» as if it is some angry mob to be feared,» Trudeau told his troops.

As a person resently retired, should the interest rate on my conservative bond investment really be 2 %?

For years, I watched in horror as most of the most remarkable, honest, hard working, compassionate, productive, contributing & patriotic; people one could ever hope to know in life & have the privilege of calling friends; die a slow, agonizing, disfiguring & vastly premature death, amidst the muted joy & exaltation of conservative religious groups & individuals.

In this, as in so many things, people of conservative temperament look around for the person who will speak for them and find only an embarrassed silence.

Well - meaning conservatives, while trying to encourage young people to behave as they should, have lost the moral high ground in the AIDS debate, and regaining that ground will be exceedingly difficult.

This is just as true for people with a conservative theology of gender as for egalitarians: we should all be able to agree that, as humans created in God's image, the oppression of women is unacceptable.

On the contrary, if our world of information is opposed to a certain conservative stance, such as lower refugee admissions, we likely discount some genuine concerns people may have about security, which can actually be used as an opportunity to share valid information about vetting and what a refugee goes through to get here.

We conservatives think that nature exists to be used well by the human person, just as we think that human nature isn't an oxymoron.

If we had, pretty much the only people who wouldn't have condemned us as all as war criminals would have been Conservative Christians.

Victoria Prentis, Conservative MP for Oxford North, was speaking as the war reaches a climax, with reports up to 100,000 people remain trapped in the city of Aleppo after the Syrian government, backed by Russia, virtually recaptured it on Tuesday.

There's an increasingly powerful consensus among both liberals and conservatives that, within reasonable limits, people should be able to do as they please.

People have the power not to be so gullible as to buy in to these ultra social conservative mind control games.

So at the end of the day, even as a follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ (the name Christian has been so stained, refuse to call myself one to distance myself from traitors to God like Bush and just about every Conservative American), I'd vote for an astheist with good ideas and was brave enough to push for the interests of people, not corporations, then I would vote for them.

While glad to see the change of attitude among conservative Christians with respect to gay civil rights and acceptance of gays as human beings, some persons were troubled over other aspects of the issue.

Its ok to call people names, ridicule them and call them stupid, as long as you are a liberal doing that to a conservative.

The publisher thought the complaints were from people on the opposite ideological spectrum from Barton, a conservative political star who has long billed himself as an evangelical historian.

Afterward, many conservatives realized they could show compassion in recognizing the human side and could support the antidiscrimination ordinance without compromising their theological position (viz., that the Bible condemns homosexuality as sin from which persons need to be redeemed).

The church is located in a conservative part of the country (in a town that serves as the national headquarters for the Church of God and home to one of the largest Pentecostal universities in the country), so it attracts a lot of people who grew up Southern Baptist or Pentecostal or non-denominational.

Having grown up as part of a conservative evangelical church, I was taught as far backas I can remember to tell people about Jesus, to tell them that by inviting Him intotheir hearts, they would be saved from the fires of Hell and instead spend eternity inheaven with Him.

In examining each of these issues (and more) Wittmer steers a path between the extremes of both sides, as he puts it «conservatives fear that postmoderns don't care enough about doctrine, and postmoderns think that conservatives don't care enough about people.

A person can, no doubt, make an idol out of an ideology, but the mere possibility does not establish, as Koyzis seems to think, that Christian liberals, Christian conservatives, etc., have committed themselves to an essentially idolatrous project.

Growing up in a conservative Christian context, I interpreted some people's teachings and books like I Kissed Dating Goodbye as saying that physical affection would most certainly lead to sex and that sex is the worst possible thing you can do.

If conservative Christians continue to treat LGBT people as second - class citizens and cry persecution every time they don't get their way, they will lose far more than the culture wars.

However, much of my thinking no longer meshes well with many people from my childhood, and I've been largely afraid to «come out» as not - so - politically / theologically - conservative anymore.

The chapter entitled «Waging Identity Wars» forced me to confront some of the reasons why I can be cruel and dismissive toward conservative evangelicals (``... when we're suffering an identity crisis, we take cheap shots at other groups in order to feel better about ourselves») and how to move forward (``... we must affirm who we really are as the people of God before we can begin to interact with each other as the people of God.»)

In this regard, Orthodoxy and Hirsch stood diametrically opposed to the Conservative movement's emphasis on the history of the Jewish people as a core Jewish value.

People more conservative than I (such as Quaker Jane) sometimes even conserve historical Quaker dress, speech, and the like.

Sane people can disagree about whether there ought to be a right to privacy, i.e., about whether it is logically a natural right and if so perhaps ought to be put into the Constitution via amendment, or about whether we (usually at state - level) should pass particular laws, such as ones that legalize gay - marriage, that factually expand what might be called privacy, but no sane U.S. Citizen, gay, straight, liberal, or conservative, should be left ignorant about the Constitution - wounding judicial usurpations done in the name of this right, more of which are planned to be done soon enough.

But you point to a different set of people, Ross, that should have objected to the war at the beginning and are now declaring that they are empowered by the Republicans» defeat on Tuesday: old conservatives of the Reagan and Bush - I eras, such as Brent Scowcroft or George Will.

Almost all liberals treat conservatives as wicked people.

That if that's their calling of the Lord than should be on salary but a moderate salary not a salary that makes them rich but of a modest lifestyle sure if they have a family living in a home that meets their needs and these millionaire status like cars where your above the people Jesus lived a very conservative life for a reason so that he was not a distraction too his assignment of preach the Gospel being a good example and staying away from any appearance of filthy lucre as we see displayed today as he he who preaches the Gospel if they have no other charge from the Lord than they should live of the Gospel

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I'm not as interested in the percentage of people who DO N'T know either candidates» religion as I am in the percentage of conservatives who genuinely believe President Obama is a Muslim.

When the NGOs are challenged as to who are «the people» whom they represent, a conventional response is that their goals are the goals the people would choose for themselves if conservative governments and transnational corporations did not hide from them what is good for them, and good for the world.

Additionally, he displays a more Christian view of the world and humanity than any Conservative / Republican in government these days, as he fights for the poor and not corporations, who some politicians believe are people.

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.