Sentences with phrase «opposed abolition»

I have no doubt that many of the people who opposed abolition, interracial marriage, protection of indigenous people, black civil rights, women's suffrage, etc. believed wholeheartedly that God was on their side and they were simply being faithful to God's Word.

This is why I believe it's so important to study both historical religious arguments supporting the abolition of slavery and historical religious arguments opposing the abolition of slavery (see my post on Mark Noll's The Civil War as a Theological Crisis» for a sampling), as well as historical religious arguments supporting desegregation and historical religious arguments opposing desegregation — not because I believe both sides are equal, but because the patterns of argumentation that emerge are so unnervingly familiar:

And, relevant to me personally, he is to oppose the abolition of the Climate Change Authority.

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Embroiled in the struggle for abolition and suffrage, the early evangelicals opposed the idea that Eve, and therefore all women, are the source of sin and that God punishes women because of Eve.

The Bible endorses slavery, too, buster, and abolition was opposed because of passages in the Bible that support it.

Thomas Upham, one of the more mystically inclined of early Holiness teachers, wrote in 1836 the important Manual of Peace, opposing the military chaplaincy, advocating «tax resistance,» and calling for the abolition of capital punishment.

He opposed Catholic emancipation, Lords reform and supporting war against Napoleon and the abolition of the slave trade.

In response to James» question about the Labour leadership candidates — Ed Miliband campaigned for Simon Hughes to speak out & is encouraging his supporters to call on the Lib Dems to stand up for their values, David Miliband has suggested ending the charitable status of fee - paying schools and (one of those non-monetary aspects to reducing inequality) giving representation to ordinary workers on corporate remunertion committees, Ed Balls has strongly opposed the VAT rise and is calling for a graduate tax instead of higher tuition fees, Andy Burnham has reiterated his support for a National Care Service and spoken out on the abolition of the Future Jobs Fund, Diane Abbot has called for fair taxation, cancelling Trident, and setting a timetable for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Ms Harman said Labour would oppose some of the changes to tax credits, as well as the abolition of the child poverty targets, but that they wouldn't do «blanket opposition» because people don't want it.

Simon Titley, who knew Clegg when he was an MEP in Brussels between 1999 and 2005, says he has only seen him truly passionate about one issue — the abolition of fox hunting, which he opposed from a libertarian point of view.

It is rare that the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, which exists to oppose animal experimentation, finds itself...

In the 1990s, he called for the abolition of the U.S. Department of Education and opposed direct government loans to students.

This lively, illustrated, and never simplistic volume about the essential role of blacks in America's early history includes complicated views, such as that of African Americans Richard Allen and James Forten, who opposed the back - to - Africa movement because freed blacks in the U.S. were the strongest fighters for the abolition of slavery.

Humane Canada is opposed in principle to rodeo and is working towards the ultimate abolition of this activity.

Humane Canada is opposed to surgical alterations of companion animals for cosmetic reasons (i.e.: tail docking, ear cropping, etc.) and supports the abolition of such practices.