Sentences with phrase «liberal states»

Even so, religiously conservative states Alabama and Arkansas have the second and third highest divorce rates in the U.S., at 13 per 1000 people per year while New Jersey and Massachusetts, more liberal states, are two of the lowest at 6 and 7 per 1000 people per year.

One of the US» more liberal states, unfortunately the insurance laws are not as relaxed.

For many utility executives, clean energy has been an annoyance, a demonstration project to appease enviros or a concern for colleagues in liberal states.

If it does not, liberal states and environmental groups are likely to sue the agency based on its carbon endangerment finding — an agency review ordered by the Supreme Court in 2007.

May all liberal states in the USA ban use of FFs within their borders starting July 1, 2018.

The implication is that the progressive spin is reserved for liberal states.

Conservative states, liberal states, rural states, and urban states have endorsed this major change.

This generalization can not be applied to all the people living in historically conservative and liberal states.

Cuomo floated the idea of a lawsuit, calling the repeal unconstitutional and a concentrated effort to punish liberal states like New York, New Jersey and California who voted against Trump.

Andrea Miller says New York is one of the more liberal states when it comes to abortion rights.

They are that out of touch with the realities and reforms happening in other states, even liberal states like Minnesota and Wisconsin.

New York remained one of the most liberal states.

New and unexpected moves at the federal level suggest the Trump administration is gearing up for a showdown with liberal states.

Surrogacy in California is particularly special because, as one of the most advanced and liberal states concerning surrogacy law, it allows intended parents and surrogates to come together from all over the world in many unique ways.

It's worth noting that it's not always the traditionally liberal states that are the most favorable for surrogacy.

We endure «the liquefying effects of capitalism and consumerism on the politically protected individuals within liberal states, as men and women in larger numbers prioritize the fulfillment of their self - chosen, acquisitive, individual desires above any social (including familial) solidarities except those they also happen to choose, and only for as long as they happen to choose them.»

And the liberal states have all failed (Mass, Calif., Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio..

Why do liberal states have higher unemployment and higher debts than conservative states?

With representation that spans the political spectrum, from liberal states to conservative ones, getting agreement on a best interest standard for annuity sales was always going to be tough for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Liberal states could ban assault weapons and institute checkpoints at their borders to screen for them, if they so chose.

He is the governor of a huge, liberal state and hails from a well - established political family.

Critics also charge that Gillibrand emphasized more centrist positions as a congresswoman from a somewhat conservative district than she does as a senator from a liberal state.

The ideal Hobbesian / liberal state needs this indifference to the supernatural in order to buttress obedience to the state.

Far from being a simple matter of what the «neutral liberal state should do in public matters,» then, public law is for Sullivan the crucial tool of social transformation.

The ideal subject of such a liberal state does not worry about the supernatural, does not hope for heaven, and, consequently, minds his mundane business.

And insofar as truth remains relevant to the efforts of the liberal state to resolve these contests, it reduces truth itself to what can be known through the empirical or quasi-empirical sciences.

We have seen that the liberal state can not really limit itself; its act of self - abnegation is the very act by which it refuses integration into an order of nature or grace that precedes and exceeds it.

The liberal state then becomes the mediator of all human relations, charged with creating in reality the denatured individuals heretofore existing only at the theoretical foundations of liberalism.

For example, even though the liberal state has no right to require its citizens who are Christians to accept Locke's proposition that toleration and a respect for religious freedom are the marks of the correct understanding of the Gospels, it has every reason to hope that they do, and perhaps to do more than hope — to educate and persuade, if not to coerce.

Greenawalt concedes that citizens of a secular liberal state have a legal right to vote their religious convictions, but he is more concerned with when and whether they ought to exercise self - restraint in the interests of good citizenship.

Bruce A. Ackerman, in Social Justice in the Liberal State (Yale University Press, 1980), arguing for an astringently secular, rational model, is faithful to the framers at least in the proposition that «nobody has the right to vindicate political authority by asserting a privileged insight into the moral universe which is denied to the rest of us.»

In fact... hate crimes are higher in liberals states than southern ones.

Those who propose a communitarian alternative to the liberal state would do well to give it close consideration.

And for those of you who question «Romneycare», you need to realize that he was the Governor of Massachusetts, the most liberal state in the country, and MA viewed universal health care as right for itself.

The tendency to emphasize the private, particularly the economic side of life in the liberal state, undermines the public participation essential to a republic.

The public theology provided a sense of value and purpose without which the national community and ultimately even the liberal state could not have survived, but it was never entirely clear what that value and purpose was.

The liberal state, instead of being the church's persecutor, was now its defender and so had to be evaluated differently.

The reordering of life according to such principles of rationalization resulted from the tendency of corporate capitalism and the modern liberal state to expand their power, which they accomplished by means of a bureaucratic structure and paternalistic ethos.

The electoral triumph of Christian Democracy within the institutional framework of the liberal state created a new situation with respect to the problem of civil religion.

A secular liberal might argue that while Romney was a politician in a socially liberal state for part of his adult life, he has been a Mormon all of his life.

Nothing, however — not the liberal state, the academy, or modern science — prevents the Church from reconstituting this particular truth in the face of the world.

Victoria's Liberal state government has signalled it is willing to provide some money to SPCA together with the federal government, though The Australian Financial Review understands it may not be willing to give the full $ 25 million requested.

I'm an atheist, and been a stay at home dad, and live in a super liberal state, and all this other so called «unmanly» bullshit, and I totally get what he's saying.

The limited state draws on the idea that a liberal state should not enforce a comprehensive ethics of life on its citizens.

The Trump administration escalated what had been a war of words over California's immigration agenda, filing a lawsuit late yesterday that amounted to a pre-emptive strike against the liberal state's so - called sanctuary laws.

His fearless activism and constant interventions on behalf of the voiceless were legendary and helped ignite global interest on the plight of the masses and on Lagos as a liberal State that created an enabling environment for voices against oppression to be heard,» Ayorinde said.

We live in a liberal state.

While New York is a liberal state with a moderate Republican Party, it does have a conservative contingent in certain geographic pockets.

A liberal state must not discourage religious persons and communities from also expressing themselves politically.

And it offers grist to both ideological conservatives and liberals.For conservatives and libertarians, the tragedy reveals the deleterious blowback of nanny state intervention.The social welfare and family court judge tilted to the missing wife's parents, and restricted Josh's visits from his two sons.We should expect Gingrich to run with this story, attacking the liberal nanny state; and how this liberal state's actions have negative unintended consequences.Liberals will also weigh in.The police, 911 distpatcher, and the criminal justice systemas a whole, all failed.The «hard power» of the police state actually made matters worse.As the ideological divide plays out, the tragedy does not end.The young mother / wife is still missing, and presumed dead.The sick Josh is no longer a person of interest.