Sentences with phrase «issues like abortion»

With a global climate treaty under negotiation and legislation pending in the United States, the climate panel has found itself in the political cross hairs, its judgments provoking passions normally reserved for issues like abortion and guns.

Relying on his prodigious fund - raising, he blanketed the state with television advertising, painting Mr. Astorino as a dangerous «ultraconservative» whose views on issues like abortion were unacceptable.

Cuomo also vowed to work for a slate of progressive issues like abortion rights, and raising the minimum wage.

The former governor stood by his previous statements that Astorino is very smart and reasonable even as the party continues to paint the Republican as an extremist out of touch with New Yorkers on issues like abortion, gay marriage and gun control.

Hanna was endorsed despite questions from party members who interviewed him Thursday about his stances on issues like abortion and marriage equality.

While Diaz Sr.'s more socially conservative views on issues like abortion and same - sex marriage sometimes pose a problem for fellow Democrats, his district is one of the few heavily Democratic areas of New York City where these positions are not a liability.

Cuomo also has vowed to work for a slate of progressive issues like abortion rights, and raising the minimum wage.

The state budget passed in late March and a slim Democratic Senate majority that included Felder, a conservative Democrat, might not have been able to pass the party's preferred legislation on issues like abortion, college tuition, and immigration.

For Democrats, the anti-Paladino commercial represents a growing conviction that Mr. Paladino must be portrayed as an extremist who shares little in common with mainstream New Yorkers, and even some Republicans, on wedge issues like abortion.

That caveat has led some to claim that the free vote, which is usually reserved to sensitive moral issues like abortion, is not applicable to what is ultimately a matter of civil law.

Cuomo reiterated his support of «progressive politics», stressing that his calls for fiscal conservatism don't mean he is no longer a liberal on social issues like abortion rights (which is shaping up to be a big focus of the Schneiderman - Donovan general election battle).

The video features each of the eight members of the IDC discussing policies such as their support for issues like abortion rights and the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, or GENDA.

Or someone can care about moral issues like abortion or law enforcement.

For example, Joe Lieberman is strong on national defense and liberal on issues like abortion and same sex marriage.

«There's been a lot of complaint across the political spectrum that American politics is too polarized on issues like abortion.

In his book, Campolo follows a distinct pattern» first, he somewhat apologetically admits that he holds to the «conservative» and «traditional» point of view; then he argues persuasively for the other side; and finally he hints suggestively that young and progressive Christians have moved beyond him on issues like abortion, homosexuality, and premarital sex.

Second, issues like abortion, euthanasia, and gay marriage should not be treated as isolated from the broader constitutional crisis.

That's how liberal Catholics responded to the stunning interview published Thursday in which Pope Francis bluntly said the church shouldn't be «obsessed» with culture war issues like abortion and gay marriage.

While not increasing in numbers of recent decades, they have grown in public awareness through aggressive moralizing on issues like abortion and school prayer.

Critics sometimes claim that America's bishops talk too much about issues like abortion and religious freedom while they overlook the poor.

What is the position of Islam and Christianity on moral issues like abortion, machine - assisted insemination and euthanasia?

This often results in the two communities being on opposite sides of hot issues like abortion or school prayers.

Also, on issues like abortion and SSM, it's not that Christians submits to the GOP, its that the GOP is submitting to the Christian position... for now.

The allegations have surfaced in historically «red» House districts that turned «blue» during the Democratic waves of 2006 and 2008, with the election of Democrats who claimed to be moderate to conservative on issues like abortion.

For all that, I'm surprised at how many (not all of course) young people I've met who have strong center - right instincts on issues like abortion, taxes, and entitlement reform.

The truth is single - item issues like abortion and gay marriage are not threats.

You are absolutely correct... and if republicans would shed the fake religion and phony hot - button issues like abortion and guns and be true to that philosophy that greed is good I would vote for them every time.

It was only after I started to look into how controversial issues like abortion and divorce were handled in other liberal democracies that I realized how my dean's slogan has been used not only to silence religiously grounded views, but to silence all opposition to abortion.

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.

In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished from the true believers at the grass roots who really do care about issues like abortion, religion, homosexual marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.

Social issues like abortion among others should not be handled at the federal level.

You could say the same about issues like abortion; you can say the say about issues like euthanasia.

Less important were issues like abortion, gay marriage, and gun control.)

The personal transforms our understanding of God, art, history, and politics — Walsh devotes a chapter to each — but also of issues like abortion, artificial intelligence, and cloning.

Lumping all Christians into a Republican bucket and calling all Christians bigots isn't fair or right simply based on social issues like abortion or gay marriage.

They pretend to be the voice for the religious right but then after they are elected issues like abortion rights get no action from them.

With hot - button right - wing populist issues like abortion and capital punishment largely off the table in Canadian politics, the long - gun registry took on disproportionate importance for that portion of the Conservative base.

In 2005, he used the first policy convention of the then - new Conservative Party to take potentially divisive social - conservative issues like abortion off the party's agenda.

Doesn't it seem like christians whether conservative or liberal scape goat social issues like abortions, gay marriage or contraceptives for really fiscal issues instead?

So, it wasn't really a surprise that he was willing to touch a landmine issue like abortion.

But the issue also polls well in New York State, and it's an easy way to wedge Republicans who are less - than - eager to cast a vote — any vote at all — on a controversial issue like abortion.

That question is not simply a matter for intellectual debate, as is evident in the controversy surrounding an issue like abortion, which is fundamentally a debate about when a fetus becomes a conscious person.

Not exact matches

Guns, like abortion, have become an issue both parties want to talk about.

Asked about Democrats having enough leeway on polarizing issues like gun rights and opposition to abortion, House Democratic Caucus chair Joe Crowley said in a press conference on Wednesday that the party «always has been» a big tent.

April 6: Facebook says it will require admins of popular pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location — in an effort to fight disinformation on its platform.

But the company doesn't take a strong stand on other controversial issues, like abortion or tax policies.

Since then, DeMoss has helped evangelical leaders not only become more comfortable with the idea of a Mormon in the White House but also with Romney's evolving position on issues like gay marriage and abortion.

It seems to me that the right - wing of this country is more focused on fire and brimstone issues that divide us like gay marriage and abortion just so they can avoid the fact that their primary reason for their economic platform is to feed people's greed.

Liberal groups accuse Republicans in Washington of pulling a bait and switch on social issues, saying the GOP took back the House last November by campaigning on fiscal issues, turning to hot buttons like abortion only after taking office.

Oh sure, they contribute everytime there's a natural dissaster or something, but have an abortion... they ain't going to be around to help you through the emotional issues you have afterwards, because none of them actually «walk with God», they simply use him to validate their biases against everyone they're uncomfortable with or don't like.