Sentences with phrase «make social conservatives»

This broader understanding of what we seek to defend should make social conservatives both more and less political than we have tended to be: We should be more political in that we do more than occasionally resort to legal appeals to protect our own freedom of action.

Mr. Hehr's motion undoubtably would have made some social conservatives uncomfortable, but it would have ultimately helped drag some of Alberta's more stodgy school boards into the 21st century.

Not exact matches

«Canadians might not like them as politicians — they may not vote for them because they're too conservative on social issues — but they're not the kind of governors that make trouble for Canada.»

Mr. Byfield has been campaigning for more than a year and could make gains if he is able to tap into the base of social conservative voters in this constituency.

It appears as though Kenney will go to far lengths not to do anything that would alienate the social conservative supporters he hopes will help make him leader of the UCP in October 2017.

If Mr Jean hopes to make the Wildrose party the party of choice for all conservatives, including progressive conservatives, he'll have to do better than float a muddled vision that pussy foots around social issues.

The conservatives and their beloved drug war are taking a clear social problem and making it vastly worse by felonizing even small time dealing, throwing so many people into prison till the «land of the free» has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world and making those people all but unemployable when they get out.

Conservatives were still likely to read quite a few jeremiads, and social - conservatives in particular remained gloomy about a number of topics, but the world - wide spread of democracy and the undeniably higher standards of living attained in the U.S. and its more capitalism - friendly allies made optimism seem the ratConservatives were still likely to read quite a few jeremiads, and social - conservatives in particular remained gloomy about a number of topics, but the world - wide spread of democracy and the undeniably higher standards of living attained in the U.S. and its more capitalism - friendly allies made optimism seem the ratconservatives in particular remained gloomy about a number of topics, but the world - wide spread of democracy and the undeniably higher standards of living attained in the U.S. and its more capitalism - friendly allies made optimism seem the rational stance.

Speaking after the documentary Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the peer and former chairman of the Conservative Party, said British Muslims had made more progress in changing their attitudes on various social issues since they arrived in Britain in the 1950s than the Church of England and the Conservative Party had over the same period.

Right wing conservative types have a Jesus who is against gay marraige, is anti-abortion, thinks there should be prayer in school, and teaches the prosperity stuff and so on... Left wing liberal Christians quote the verses about giving up possessions, feeding and clothing the poor... inner city Christians often have a Jesus who is about social justice... we were made in His image?

Yeah, it makes me feel better denouncing baptist cause of my family's involvement with the KKK to become a catholic and the hate by socialism and such from conservative uncompassionant individuals on the moral question of social justice issues.

Recently there has been great agitation in Pakistan about the enormous wastage involved in animal sacrifice and suggestions have been made that the money spent on slaughtering animals should be spent on social and philanthropic activities, but the conservative groups remain unconvinced.

But what social conservatives «have» is a vision of the good and a deep conviction that it would be good for everyone and therefore ought to be made as widely available as possible.

He makes a fool of the conservative social agenda, then embraces it in the end.

Whereas Orthodoxy made belief (doxa) its starting point, and Reform Judaism put ethical monotheism atop its theological pedestal, Conservative Judaism's worldview emanated from a specific assumption about the social nature of Judaism.

The challenge to social conservatives at this point is still to name one social, political, or cultural problem that is not made worse by the pressure of overpopulation.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

In Part 3 of the book, she describes this shift in terms of a «gathering center» in which Christians from the four corners (or quadrants) of Western Christendom — conservatives, renewalists, liturgicals, and social justice Christians — are moving toward the center, grabbing bits and pieces from each tradition and putting them together to make something entirely new.

And it is foolish to drive them into the arms of the political left when their piety and moral convictions make them natural allies of social conservatives.

In light of that conviction, conservatives and liberals could repossess the love that makes possible justice, social policies and practices in which just means and ends cohere.

And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.

Stricherz, one gathers, would be comfortable in a Democratic party that returned to its working - class roots and its economic focus but that made a place for social conservatives.

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There, in a nutshell, is the line of thinking that made Lasch such a blister to many liberals and conservatives: his condemnation of corporate and governmental power grabs, his attachment to a robust vision of democratic citizenship, and his conviction that the social work establishment, educators, therapists, and other semi-skilled technocrats had undermined the competence of the middle class, while subjecting the poor to «new controls sincerely disguised as benevolence.»

Franck surveys the many ways in which proponents of gay marriage and other progressive social causes ignore the arguments made by conservatives, falling back on the assertion that resistance is based on «hate.»

to make it a purely «conservative social force.»)

This makes you, at the very least, a social conservative.

They will lead the way with clear, positive, and rationally persuasive arguments making the philosophical case for a principled conservative polity ¯ and social issues will play a central role.

Is this why some conservative, fundamentalistic preaching which, although enormously popular at present, «makes little attempt to analyze the world» in terms of its social structures?

Becker is trying to harness the power of the Internet to raise copious amounts of campaign cash, urging supporters to create a «chain connection» through social media and urge like - minded conservatives across the country to make a small dollar donation to his cause.

Thus, conservative REGNUM tended to present an atmosphere of confusion among ruling European politicians, normally trying to make Pro-Europeanists sound naïve and trivial («Moldova should strengthen efforts towards European integration, because it can bring Moldovan citizens welfare, social solidarity, good laws and respect»), but eurosceptics — witty and wise («The EU is a project with a past but without a future»),» Berdnikovs said.

So either, get rid of the Conservative light members or make a clean break with a social liberal party.

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.

«James Gray shames the Conservative Party Main How David Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith made social conservatism fashionable again»

David Willetts» unfortunate comment last week about higher education being a «burden on the taxpayer» suggests that not only will Liberal Democrat ministers have to continue to remind their Conservative colleagues of the importance of social mobility, but they will have to make the economic case for building a learning economy as well.

The GOP is really made up of two main groups, the social conservatives who love Palin and the fiscal conservatives who don't.

Criticism of the bureaucratic culture in social services by the Conservatives has created a political storm out of the case, making the government's admission it knew about Haringey's problems all the more embarrassing.

Meanwhile Crabb sought to position himself as the compassionate Conservative heir to David Cameron, making an upbeat speech focused on life opportunities and social mobility.

Social conservatives don't trust Karen Handel and Nathan Deal makes Charlie Rangel look clean.They are sure to beat each other up over the next 3 weeks leading up to the runoff.

The staunch social conservative and ordained Southern Baptist minister made the eyebrow - raising remarks on Thursday during a conference call organized by the conservative Family Research Council.

Cenedella has mostly avoided specific policy prescriptions in his public comments and blog posts, but he currently sits on the leadership council of the Club for Growth, a conservative group that supports a variety of «pro-growth» fiscal policies, pushing to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, repeal the death tax, and overhaul Social Security to allow for personal retirement accounts for younger workers.

Could have convinced the party that blue Labours view on Immigration and socially conservative views on communities such as religion, working with the state to subsidise locally run charities, was something, that could bring into our party working class people not already connected, by the groups associated with our movements (Trade unions, the Co-op, retired union affiliates) after the disaster of the World cup, owl gate and then the Ill prepared speech at the IPFF on social change and trying to deflect attention from it by rushing out the «well make unemployed teenagers work for their dole» plan, it's hard to see us being able to be taken serious on welfare reform.

On CentreRight yesterday, Simon Chapman urged the Conservative Party to make it «the social justice by - election»:

Mrs Cameron plans to make a couple of visits on her own a week, often visiting «social action projects» run by Tory candidates, to boost links with communities and show that the Conservatives are not the nasty party any more.

Over the next year, campaigners, non-governmental groups and the media need to establish equally hard - edged thresholds of what the Conservatives need to do to be taken seriously on the environment, democracy and social justice before Cameron's policy commissions make their recommendations.

Mr. Halloran thought Mr. Smith, as a leading African - American politician who was also a social conservative, would make an attractive candidate who could «change the face of the Republican Party.»

The study found that social responsibility leads to more conservative risk behavior in group decision - making.

Action on the other proposals — which make up the so - called «social issues» agenda of legislation promoting greater family choice in education and Christian values for youth — is being pushed by Congressional conservatives and pro-family...

Conservatives have always resisted such gross rationalization of society, however, and insisted that local knowledge channeled by evolved social institutions — from families and civic and fraternal groups to traditional religious establishments, charitable enterprises, private companies, and complex markets — will make for better material outcomes and a better common life.

But there's an argument to be made that the apogee of conservative social policy was actually in the 1990s, with tough - on - crime laws, which broke the back of a crack - fueled murder wave; welfare reform, which reined in government dependency; and education reform, which curbed monopoly power of the teachers» unions in our big cities.