Sentences with phrase «by evangelical right»

The Rev. Emily McNeill, who heads the Labor - Religion Coalition of New York State, said her group is not as concerned about the topics promoted by the evangelical right, including opposition to abortion and gay marriage.

Not exact matches

If the GOP would quit trying to take away women's rights (as confirmed by the Supreme Court) and concentrate on FREEDOM for all, the party would gain more votes from women than they would lose from evangelicals who must have other concerns that are just as important as taking away a woman's right to chose.

tony perkiins is a dufuss — he is a control freak — no one can possibly believe the drivel spouted by the right wing evangelicals.

For one thing, the religious revival of the 70s - 90s was fading, and the successes of the 1990s political marshalling of evangelical votes by the Religious Right had provoked an emotional counter-reaction, one documented by the many books sold by the «New Athiests» and more scientifically by various sociologists.

Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

Lively, with representation by Liberty Counsel (an evangelical legal organization), responded that in both the U.S. and Uganda he exercised constitutionally protected speech rights; that he opposes violence and neither committed nor plotted any; that Uganda did not in fact pass a proposed draconian anti-gay law, and that in any case Uganda's political institutions, instead of himself, are responsible for its political decisions; and that the court lacks jurisdiction and the plaintiffs lack standing.

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN)- The ex-wife of a Republican politician alleges her then - husband asked if they could have an open marriage, so evangelical «values voters» rethink their support for him, right?

Reed's opinion that there is no evangelical vote and the far right are complex thinkers who are not influenced by political catch phrases is downright laughable.

It was especially this public linking of evangelicals with the political right, by Jerry Falwell and other public figures, that initially consolidated the religious right.

It was a view echoed by evangelical leaders, both right and left.

The literalist mentality does not manifest itself only in conservative churches, private - school enclaves, television programs of the evangelical right, and a considerable amount of Christian bookstore material; one often finds a literalist understanding of Bible and faith being assumed by those who have no religious inclinations, or who are avowedly antireligious in sentiment.

As Hatch has noted elsewhere, because many evangelicals «have abandoned the university, the arts, and other realms of «high culture» «they are often «least capable of winning the right to be heard by twentieth - century intellectuals.»

Grace is a powerful thing but to live a life of non-repentance only to use the «get out of jail free card» in one's dying breath is a twisted concept that has been theologically exploited by Evangelicals in order to «get the numbers up» and provide family members of those who have died with a warm feeling that their loved one made the right choice at the end.

Dr Justin Thacker takes a closer look at the «right wing economic orthodoxy» being promoted by many evangelicals More

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

But many evangelicals wound up feeling betrayed by Carter's liberalism, and Reagan's courtship of first - generation Christian right leaders, as well as his conservative rhetoric on issues like abortion, sent hordes of evangelicals to the GOP.

He's just not a far right evangelical nut case determined to imposed values shared only by other far right evangelical nut cases.

The effort was largely motivated by their desire to pry evangelicalism from the grip of the religious right, and the resulting document is quite generous in its definition of evangelical orthodoxy, thought it has been criticized for being too vague.

Jerry Falwell and other figures in the religious New Right have capitalized on the widespread dissatisfaction among evangelicals by preaching the need for a complete overhaul of the church - state relationship, but they are hardly alone in their endeavors.

Others have written about an «evangelical tipping point» represented by this moment and I think they are right.

Allow a solider to take part??? This is OUR military and it has been taken over by the far - right evangelicals and other religious extremists.

For example, she is quick to criticize the British evangelicals who were the first to work for humane treatment of animals in the West by claiming they were informed by «a certainty that Christian culture was the only true and right way to live.»

When you read the narrative, what Balmer means by Religious Right is really a coalition of leaders and organizations within the evangelical world who have sought to organize evangelical voters along a particular set of issues.

Efforts to mobilize Christians for political ends may be unprecedentedly massive on the right and are by no means lacking on the left; but as is illustrated by antiabortion alliances between Roman Catholics and conservative evangelicals and by antiwar protests gathering together both Christian pacifists and nonpacifists, these groupings are indifferent to ecumenism because, among other things, it has no public influence.

Liberals have a right and an obligation to quarrel with many of the terms and techniques of witness employed by some evangelicals, but evangelicals are correct when they remind us that there is a faith «delivered to the saints,» who in turn are responsible for delivering it to others.

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.

See, for instance, the use of 2 Chronicles 7:14 («If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and heal their land») by many in the Evangelical wing of the religious right.

It's interesting to me that American Catholics tend not to have the same sort of antagonistic relationship with science because the pope has an honest - to - goodness observatory with award - winning scientists doing real research; because at least right now, fundamentalism is not the overriding or abiding ideology in the Catholic Church — although there are a wing of Catholic fundamentalists in the U.S. right now that are influenced by their conservative evangelical Protestant brothers and sisters.

Declared by Time magazine in 2005 to be one of the 25 «most influential evangelicals in America,» Barton has constructed a providentialist interpretation of American history to go with the issue - based advocacy of the religious right.

For some fearful observers, the growth of evangelical broadcasting represented a massive takeover by the political and moral right and a plot to establish a religious republic with the evangelical and fundamentalist broadcasters as the major spokespersons.

Whatever the religion of those in the «middle ground» the place where we find most Catholics, mainline Protestants, Jews and even many evangelicals — they can not get by forever by arguing the theology of «choice» and «rights,» while refusing to sharpen their understandings of «values» about «life.»

Your boy - really smacks of alot of reverence?Franklin Graham has done many great things, such as head up a ministry called Samaritans Purse, which has done incredible work towards disaster relief.What have you done?He simply speaks the truth which is that this President has done more to distance himself against evangelical Christians by supporting liberal causes, using the world's largest stage to promote gay rights, and too many issues to mention that Mr.Obama's faith, or lack of, is obvious to everyone.Not to mention that he is the son of Billy Graham.

CNN: My Take: Santorum's evangelical surge is about more than Christian Right Rick Santorum's surge in the polls in the days before the Iowa caucuses has been interpreted by some as evidence of continued relevance and staying power of the Religious Right.

But Joanna Burgos, a National Republican Campaign Committee spokeswoman, said the gay rights provision — opposed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals — could scare away some supporters.

Produced and promoted by a strange collection of right - wing Christian evangelicals, counter-jihadists and (apparently) an Egyptian Copt with convictions for fraud, the film seemed to be created with the intention of both destabilising post-Mubarak Egypt and roiling the US presidential election.

He argued that unlike stem cell research, whose detractors» religious motivations are more clear, evangelicals who deny climate change are being deliberately misled by the religious right juggernaut.

Speaking as a believer who has often pondered that and other dispiriting questions about why evangelical Christianity has been so readily co-opted by conservative politics, I'll confess that the heaviness of Schrader's moral inquiry and the earnestness of his provocations were right up my alley.

Paul is joined by EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West to discuss findings from the new EdNext poll on school reform, which measured public support for the rights of Muslim students and of evangelical students to form afterschool religious clubs.