However, the sad truth is that 1) the issue is much
deeper than abortion which the church needs to address, (ie., fix the root cause) and 2) this abortion issue does not seem to resonate appropriately among the believers
@Jen» the issue is much
deeper than abortion which the church needs to address, (ie., fix the root cause)» = > agreed..
Not exact matches
Exploring their guilt, we find it
deeper in one crucial regard
than that of the tools and thralls of ideologies more manifestly political
than abortion.
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.
Also, the risk of spontaneous
abortions in practitioners after the tenth week of pregnancy was significantly increased when they gave
deep - heat treatments (for strain injuries or as mobilisation therapy) for more
than five hours a week, and ultrasound for more
than 10 hours a week.