Sentences with phrase «liberal attitudes for»

Displaying remarkably liberal attitudes for a Church famed for its conservatism, bishops meeting in the Vatican today also said that a couples» decision on the use of contraception should be respected.

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The experts believe it may take many years for Americans to adopt a liberal attitude toward the economy and finances again.

For this «liberal» may in actuality deport himself to good causes and bad without discrimination, so that his attitude toward abortion or euthanasia is neither paradoxical nor contradictory.

This seems to have entailed a more liberal attitude toward some of the strictures of Jewish law but an appreciation for the sentiments of conservative religion nonetheless.

They have been much attacked for their attitudes during this period; my shelf has several books criticizing Americans, Christians, liberals and The Christian Century for being blind, or for having knowledge but no policy concerning the Jews.

Although the present article is primarily directed against strict identity theory (which is connected with what Feezell calls the conservative view of abortion), it also has implications for Feezell's moderate view, which criticizes the casual attitude some (he calls them liberals) may have toward the fetus, which is a «soon - to - be-actual» person (47).

(Even Sweden, the poster country for women's equality and liberal attitudes toward human sexuality, strictly regulates abortion after the eighteenth week of pregnancy.)

While some cultural leaders (such as John Dewey and Sidney Hook) were saying that the open - minded attitudes of liberal, secular science were the only was to build a civilization free from prejudice and irrational intolerance, many other prominent spokesmen were saying that Christianity and the Judeo - Christian tradition could provide the best basis for a truly tolerant and liberal civilization.

This attitude, which has been widespread in non-Roman and non-Orthodox theological circles, is responsible for the contemptuous dismissal of those theologians (sometimes conveniently tagged «outworn liberals» or «old - fashioned modernists») who attempted in the past or who still attempt in the present to employ in their work the insights of the process - philosophers.

Liberals have long hoped for the moment when the Catholic Church stops being «anti-modern,» which doesn't mean engaged with science, philosophically sophisticated, and capable of formulating a vision for modern political and economic life — the Church does all that — but instead means adopting liberal attitudes toward moral truth.

It is impossible, for instance, to analyze the dismantling of slavery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries apart from a host of political developments — specifically liberal ones, but also specifically Christian ones, derived in part from evangelical missionary attitudes and discoveries.

The third is «generational difference»: as people age their attitudes stay constant, but people born more recently show more enthusiasm for socially liberal policies.

US Hispanic voters showed signs of staying away from Obama due to his race - hence their support for Hilary Clinton in the Democrat contest - and liberal social attitudes.

In advance of the publication of a ConservativeHome poll on party members» attitudes to co-operation with the Liberal Democrats he suggests that Britain may be heading for a hung parliament after the next General Election.

In a sign that public attitudes towards drugs are becoming decidedly more liberal, an Ipsos - MORI poll for the Transform Drug Policy Foundation found 53 % of people want cannabis legalised, while just 14 % want tougher penalties for users.

Meanwhile, the gulf between the attitudes of the Conservatives - Liberal Democrat coalition and those in the labour movement was highlighted by a TUC report out today, which suggested that the poorest had been in a livelihood crisis for the last 30 years.

The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has criticised BBC presenter Jeremy Paxman for his «sneering» attitude to politics.

He is described as «a Victorian thinker fated to live in an unsympathetic modern age», part of an «ultimately disappointing effort to turn the cloth of «science» into a wardrobe of a philosophy of life and a programme for social progress», a liberal on race who was «a reflection of elitist English upper - class attitudes towards the others, be they the races of Empire, the lower classes in England, or Blacks in the American South».

Specifically, liberals showed an increase in in - group loyalty and a decrease in fairness, and these shifts accounted for their negative attitudes toward Muslims and immigrants.

No such correlation was discernible in for people with a liberal attitude.

Naturally, there are a multitude of reasons for this growth in senor dating but it is primarily a result of changing, more liberal, social attitudes plus, of course, the way modern day communications are instant and far - reaching — you can be in touch with almost anyone almost anywhere in the world in seconds!

Since dating is such an important aspect of life for men, women, teen boys, and girls in countries where the custom of arranged marriage is absent and where sexual freedom and liberal attitude towards intermingling of opposite sex is a norm.

Robinson, who served as commissioner of education for the State of Florida and secretary of education for the Commonwealth of Virginia, said the AP report shows how liberal attitudes on school reform have shifted following the election of President Donald Trump and his appointment of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

For a time it puzzled me that after 50 years of tumultuous change the media liberal attitudes could remain almost identical to those I shared in the 1950s.

defined as an «interrelated set of moral and political attitudes that possesses cognitive, affective, and motivational components,» can similarly guide, funnel and constrain the processing of information and alter behavior... Such motivated biases in cognition and behavior can occur for those holding conservative or liberal ideologies, depending on how the circumstances threat or support one's respective ideologies and intuitions....

Cohabitators are expecting the same rights as the married, poor families are penalized for marriage, and liberal attitudes toward single parenthood, divorce, and cohabitation are at fault partially.

Cambridge: known as the home of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge is also known for its liberal attitudes and diversity.