Sentences with phrase «religious right leaders»

Some religious right leaders like James Dobson are adamantly against McCain.

Most of the major religious right leaders are holding their noses and supporting McCain but there are a few diehards like Dobson.

«If the GOP House leadership gets tagged as gay friendly (as several influential religious right leaders like Tony Perkins are saying right now) that will depress turnout among these folks.»

Shortly after 9/11, Pat Robertson's retirement as president of the Christian Coalition prompted the Washington Post to ask Washington - based Religious Right leaders about a successor.

To not a few Religious Right leaders, Islam itself is essentially evil.

When I see televangelists and religious right leaders charging against oh so many issues (including homosexuality) I'm struck by the fact that they can't see past their own fear.

Not exact matches

During his tenure, embassy officials «advanced American values» by meeting with religious leaders and human rights lawyers and visiting Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang, Locke said.

Black religious leaders must be in the forefront of the fight for secular rights to be acknowledged and protected.

But I do think that black religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular rights of gay people.

If the people with guns also subscribe to their theology, the «religious right» leaders are that much closer to creating the United States as a Christian religious theocracy.

A. W. Tozer, in his concern for the lack of the right kind of leadership in the church, wrote: Another kind of religious leader must arise among us.

«It is a source of great concern to us and we are calling on the government to immediately release all these human rights activists and religious leaders.»

Right now, you've got a Religious Right in America that's losing its own young people because its leaders HATE so much whoever opposes them.

Known as the Religious Right, vocal Christian leaders on radio and television convinced an entire generation of evangelicals that faithfulness to Christ meant voting for the Republican Party.

Right in front of all the religious leaders.

Have you ever noticed how Jesus seems to walk right into traps laid by the Pharisees and religious leaders?

«It excludes the right to raise your children in your faith; the right to have religious literature; the right to meet with co-religionists; the right to raise funds; the right to appoint or elect your religious leaders, and to carry out charitable activities, to evangelize, [and] to have religious education or seminary training,» said Shea, who previously served on the Commission.

In Mark 12, right before Jesus observes and comments upon the rich giving from their wealth and the widow giving from her poverty, Jesus condemns the religious leaders for their pride, arrogance, self - prominence, and greed.

I have been saying that the leaders on conservative right who espouse their religious credentials tend to do the exact opposite of the teachings of Jesus.

As a world leader for freedom and the protection of basic human rights, the United States should take every opportunity to advocate for people — including Americans here at home — to think, believe, and act according to their religious belief whether they belong to a minority or majority religion in their nation.»

More recently, the Islamic Society of North America has met with African and Middle Eastern leaders to urge them to protect the rights of religious minorities and discourage terrorism.

Four years later, Obama hired religious outreach staffers like DuBois for his presidential campaign and made a point of meeting with Christian Right leaders who'd never before heard from a Democratic presidential nominee.

After speaking at Liberty University last week, Trump scored an important endorsement from Jerry Falwell Jr., a prominent leader of the Religious Right who, to the applause of thousands, compared Trump to Jesus and Martin Luther King, Jr..

The leaders Trump or Clinton refer to seem to be the vocal and politically minded subset of evangelicalism, which of course is a subset of Christianity whether it's the Religious Right or otherwise.

«[Religious leaders] essentially decided during the past twenty years that people could fend for themselves on matters of personal morality while the churches joined the «struggle» to establish social «rights» whose imprimatur comes from the courts, America's unique bishopric.»

That's why some of us believe that leaders in the Religious Right have, in a classic case of gaining the world and losing the soul, successfully gained political clout but helped lose our next generation.»

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

Benedict Rogers, East Asia team leader at religious freedom charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) said the vote is an «extremely significant development, which will in all likelihood mean a continuing crackdown on human rights generally, and religious freedom in particular».

We need to pray that this terrible event will draw the attention of world leaders to focus more on human rights and religious persecution in Egypt.

The growing consensus about human rights among religious leaders is a new development that has yet to be widely recognized and understood.

This revolution in religious thought is exemplified by religious leaders» current support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was drafted by the UN Commission on Human Rights.

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.

and then they are excommunicated and the fight is over... this is a hopeless fight especially when religion is involved... they either fight for rights and lose it all (and essentially go to hell) or give in and listen to their religious leaders... I do not believe in what they do and could care less really but they are in a no win situation and they as nuns should not be worried about birth control or anything of the such... they took the vows..

Rights campaigners fear the move will effectively legalize discrimination, while some conservative religious leaders had called for stronger measures to be taken.

And about the thief who comes to steal, kill and destroy... we do realize that is speaking of the false religious leaders of the day and not satan, right?

Yet despite their suspicion of the public and doubts about the government's willingness to defend their religious rights, tribal leaders across North America are increasingly critical of Native and non-Native «medicine teachers» who proclaim themselves the carriers of revelation and special power.

Religious leaders know that people want to feel they're right.

«While many Southern Baptists share my deep commitment to religious freedom and the right of Muslims to have places of worship, they also feel that a Southern Baptist denominational leader filing suit to allow individual mosques to be built is «a bridge too far,»» Land wrote in a letter to the ADL explaining the move.

While I think Jones is an idiot and a charlatan (same as any so - called religious leader including the pope - a-dope), I must defend his right to believe and say whatever he likes.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

Look at America right now, religious leaders have a lot of sway among people, and in our democratic republic, it's fine.

What makes this psychology so prevalent is that those who have the power - agents of government, parents, teachers, business managers, and religious leaders, who also define what's right or wrong - totally support it.

Dr. Johnson Cook is an experienced religious leader with a passion for human rights and an impressive record of public service.

Prior to our increasingly «Hell - Bound and Happy» era, America's greatest leaders were part of the (gulp) Religious Right!

You are right though, the flat world did come for folks who did not know any better, including priest, prophets and religious leaders.

As for the Christians, ya okay your bible might have somehow predicted all of this 2000 + years in advanced, and maybe you were right all along, but you guys still better get cautious because you have too many enemies in this world and your own churches / religious leaders are so spiritually dead and corrupt that they would not survive a muslim takeover.

Bear in mind that the law in their context is not the original Law of Moses (which was difficult to keep in its own right) but the one around which the religious leaders had built fence upon fence — to the extent that Jesus accused them of expecting others to keep to a law that they themselves could / did not.

Despite prayers and protests from religious leaders and human rights advocates, the Kremlin announced Putin's approval yesterday.

At the end of the day humanity needs both, scientists who ask if what they are doing is right, and religious leaders who use reason, and that only happens when the two sides meet in the middle.

Some religious leaders took up the critical stance they desired by moving moderately to the right and others by moving somewhat to the left.