Sentences with phrase «by other conservative groups»

Not exact matches

A joint statement this week from more than 60 conservatives, including former attorney general Edwin Meese and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, demanded that Facebook and other tech giants «rectify their credibility with the conservative movement» by explaining why content is taken down and accounts deleted and by including more conservative groups on its list of advisers.

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.

The groups that compose conservative Christendom are marked by distinctive theological stances and sociological dynamics as significant as those that distinguish other church traditions or those that separate evangelical groups from mainline denominations.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

Field organizing has been a top priority this year of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and other wealthy donors.

Trump signed legislation aimed at cutting off federal funding to Planned Parenthood and other groups that perform abortions, a move cheered by conservatives who have clamored to impose curbs on reproductive rights.

The Conservative Party also voted Wednesday to support two other proposed constitutional amendments that are more widely supported by politicians and interest groups.

Former Clinton deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin and at least five others will be questioned by a conservative watchdog group's lawyers seeking information about Abedin's overlapping employment at the U.S. State Department, the Clinton Foundation and an outside consulting firm.

Saying their patience is at an end, conservative activist groups backed by the billionaire Koch brothers and other powerful interests on the right are mobilizing to pressure Republicans to fulfill their promise to swiftly repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Mayor de Blasio and other Democrat officials called for his resignation after Schulkin was caught on tape by the conservative group Project Veritas saying, «Certain neighborhoods in particular, they bus people around to vote.

But as the Common Core has been grouped with other controversial issues by opponents serving a variety of larger political agendas, the union has also been joined by libertarians and even conservative Republicans in opposition.

«It was organized,» Scozzafava told the Post about the attacks against her by Palin, other prominent conservative figures, and conservative advocacy groups.

There was deep overlap between the attendees, Tea Party groups and other dissatisfied conservatives whose anger with state politics was forged by Cuomo's 2013 gun control law, the SAFE Act.

The measure has been opposed by the state chapter of the National Organization for Women as well as conservative religious organizations, but was supported by other women's groups and the state Women's Bar Association.

A separate attempt by American Traditions Institute, a conservative think tank headed by members of other conservative groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Group and Cooler Heads Coalition, was equally unsuccessful.

These statements might sound like the rhetoric used by extreme animal rights groups, but they come from White Coat Waste — a new, unlikely coalition of fiscal conservatives and liberal activists that aims to end federal funding for research involving dogs and other animals by targeting people's pocketbooks in addition to their heartstrings.

Other aspects of our news diet are out of whack, too: a nationally representative survey done in 2014 by the Pew Research Center found that conservatives are far more likely than other ideological groups to rely on a single outlet — Fox News — for political and government news coveOther aspects of our news diet are out of whack, too: a nationally representative survey done in 2014 by the Pew Research Center found that conservatives are far more likely than other ideological groups to rely on a single outlet — Fox News — for political and government news coveother ideological groups to rely on a single outlet — Fox News — for political and government news coverage.

Other groups also oppose the border - adjusted tax, including Americans for Prosperity, a conservative organisation backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, who typically donate generously to Republican campaigns.

Moral stereotypes about «typical» liberals and conservatives held by both groups are generally correct, but exaggerated both for their own group and the other, according to new research published December 12 in the open access...

A half - dozen states have dropped the PARCC tests in the last year, while others have hedged on the Common Core with much of the opposition driven by conservative groups opposed to a federal role in education.

The decision was strongly condemned by civil rights groups, who said that it would harm already highly vulnerable students, but it was applauded by conservatives, who said the guidelines violated the safety and privacy of all other students.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

This tribal theory applies to peoples political affiliations such as liberal or conservative, or membership of other social groups, and we know liberals do tend to accept climate science more than conservatives from polls by Pew Research etc, although its not black and white.

But he also has been criticized by some conservative politicians, commentators and libertarian groups for what they say are extreme views on global warming and other environmental risks.

The «freedom of speech» argument was echoed by ExxonMobil's legal team, as well as numerous other conservative groups including the Pacific Legal Foundation, and Heritage Foundation and the recently - formed Free Speech in Science Project, a group created by the same lawyers who defended the Competitive Enterprise Institute in the past.

Senators Kaine, Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI), and others have banded together to attack the alleged «web of denial» that appears to be made up only of conservative organizations that they claim are funded by ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel corporations that they consider immoral — even though the energy they provide has been indispensable to lifting and keeping billions of people out of poverty, and even though ExxonMobil has not given any of these groups a dime for a decade or more.

This was a very conservative estimate of the increase; other groups appearing before the Senate inquiry chaired by the Democrats suggested that the effect would be significantly higher.

A coalition of conservative groups lead by the Koch - affiliated American Energy Alliance (and including the Koch - affiliated Americans for Prosperity, the Koch - affiliated Competitive Enterprise Institute, among others) are showing up in force against renewable energy, urging congressional Republicans to allow a key wind energy tax credit to expire.

His case was championed by the group Families Against Mandatory Minimums, former FBI director Bill Sessions, conservative billionaire Charles Koch and others.