Doubt cast on account of heroic defence of
liberal values written by father of Michael Portillo
Not exact matches
The
Liberal party, which at times seems to
value youth over experience, could see some blowback at its convention in Halifax next month, Susan Delacourt
writes.
«Instead of attracting a younger, more open - minded demographic with these changes,» Douthat
wrote, «the Episcopal Church's dying has proceeded apace... Practically every denomination — Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian — that has tried to adapt itself to contemporary
liberal values has seen an Episcopal - style plunge in church attendance.
If you believe in what is
written in the Bible you generally have conservative
values not
liberal ones.
White
liberals, guilt - ridden (I
write from experience), accepted this spurious definition at face
value.
These include the need for a purposively broad,
liberal and benevolent interpretation of the Constitution as a whole, so far as the language of the constitution would admit, having due regard to the underlying
values and principles that need to be promoted to safeguarded our system of participatory democracy, the principle that the constitution is a document sui generis, and allied to this, the principle that the constitution must be interpreted in the light of its own words, and not words found in some other
written constitution» (Writ No: JI / 15/2015 [unreported] pages 23 & 24).
In our
liberal - democratic society there is always a desire to separate the teaching of
values from the teaching of reading,
writing, and mathematics, the so - called
value neutral subjects.
Even David Roberts, the
liberal blogger who popularized the term «climate hawk,»
wrote a piece a few years ago that said
values often hide behind what look like numerical arguments.