DeVos, the wife of Dick DeVos, the heir to the Amway marketing fortune, has spent more than two decades advocating for charter schools in her home state of Michigan, as well as promoting
conservative religious values.
Most African Americans and hispanics hold
conservative religious values and although outwardly due to undue pressure might toe the liberal line, will certainly choose the lesser of the two evils.
Not exact matches
This has angered the
religious conservatives, who are probably wondering who the party really
values most: them or more moderate voters.
Though the Supreme Court is far from a consistent proxy issue for social
conservatives or
religious voters, it does provide a flashpoint for issues of
religious liberty, traditional moral
values, and abortion - on - demand.
Sixty - three percent of political and
religious conservatives support allowing women and couples in the developing nations to determine the timing and spacing of pregnancies in a manner that includes the voluntary use of methods of preventing pregnancy — not including abortion — that are harmonious with their
religious values and beliefs.
The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «
conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in
religious conservatism and
conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist»
values and against those who hold such
values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.
The rhetoric of liberal
religious leaders, unlike that of their
conservative counterparts, has often questioned the
value of America's distinctive cultural traditions.
The very core beliefs he
values are perfectly in line with most
conservative religious voters.
Because
religious conservatives sense this conflict between general television and their own
values and beliefs, their viewing of
religious programs is both an act of protest against general television and an expression of support for the beliefs associated with
religious programs.
In Virginia, a related group, called the Matthew 25 Network, is launching a radio ad Monday on behalf of Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello - who has also come under attack by
religious conservatives - that lauds his Christian faith and his
values.
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 a
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 a
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 a
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.
They warned that an «increasing number» of «
conservative»
religious schools «are spreading beliefs that clash with British
values and equalities laws».
The
religious right, or
value voters, or social
conservatives are not real
conservatives.
Category: English, Interviews, North America, Private Institution, Public Institution, Transversal Studies, Universal Education, Voluntary Association, Your experiences, Your ideas · Tags: 1970s, 1980s, anti-democratic, artists, authoritarian societies, Brazil, capitalist - culture, cell phones, citizen, civic courage, classroom, conformity,
conservative fundamentalism, context, critical citizens, critical pedagogy, criticism, cultural workers, Darwinism, David Livingstone, democratic education, democratic
values, democratization, dialogue, Drew Gilpin Faust, Education, Ethics, freedom, fumdamentalism, future, global citizenship education, Global Education Magazine, global inequities, Harvard University, Henry Giroux, historical formations, Hobbesian, Human Rights, identities, intellectuals, international politics, internet, Joe Kincheloe, knowledge, languague, mass - media, method, moral, neoliberal global politics, newspapers, Paulo Freire, pedagogy, philanthropic vision, public schools, quality education, reflections,
religious, Roger Simon, routine, skills, social agents, social life, society, standardization, students, sustainable, teachers are deskilled, teachers training, teaching, technique, theory, training teachers, TV,
values
The
conservatives who control the board have neutered the teachers union, prodded neighborhood elementary schools to compete with one another for market share, directed tax money to pay for
religious education and imposed a novel pay scale that
values teachers by their subjects, so a young man teaching algebra to eighth graders can make $ 20,000 a year more than a colleague teaching world history down the hall.
As a nonpartisan organization with
conservative core
values, we find it troubling that a fundamental American principle such as
religious liberty became a partisan issue in the Florida Senate.