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Sharpton said he founded NAN in 1991 to further a civil rights agenda in the vein of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..
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I've found that the right business strategies can deliver significantly more value, in all respects, than is possible through a purely stakeholder - driven social agenda.
Furthermore, a potential right - wing president in France could lead to a stronger reform agenda in Europe, he added.
You are well within your rights to request an agenda in advance.
But two trade agreements President Obama wants to advance as part of an ambitious domestic agenda for his last two years in office — the Trans - Pacific partnership in Asia and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in Europe — are getting push - back from both the left and right.
Review results, reset your agenda and reach for the right goals in 2015.
This means the party could push its right - wing agenda at a national level in a future coalition government.
With the government's strategy over the past few months apparently focused on undermining the Wildrose Alliance by stealing from its agenda, many had expected the Tories would further woo disaffected right - wing voters with deep spending cuts in this year's budget, which was unveiled on Feb. 9.
While the new president has a more pro-business agenda than his predecessor Hollande, he might be significantly constrained in his social and economic reforms if he needs the support of both mainstream right - wing and left - wing parties.
«Given that Canada's foreign policy has put gender equity issues prominently at the top of its agenda, obviously this is something we wanted to highlight here: That you have a Canadian company actively undermining those rights abroad by facilitating censorship in countries where those rights aren't respected or recognized,» Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, told me over the phone.
Equality in all its forms is top of the agenda right now.
Over the past four years the Wildrose has excelled at using wedge issues like oil and gas royalties and property rights to drive the political agenda in Alberta.
The Liberals have been pushing their right - wing agenda for the past twelve years: privatizing and contracting out, slashing corporate taxes so they're now the lowest in Canada, dismantling the social safety net and environmental standards regulations in BC, and attacking public sector workers.
The religious right, in trying to enact legislation that curtails the rights of others, ARE «forcing their agenda» on the rest of society.
Tea Party partisans have the same cultural agenda, but this incarnation of the Religious Right proceeds by stealth, in this case with riders to a budget bill - riders they know no Democratic president or Senate can ever accept.
Those on the right, who want to capture the jobs, programs, and networks for their opposing political agenda, also have little interest in dialogue.
In her address to Georgetown University outlining the Obama Administration's human rights agenda she used «freedom of worship» three times, «freedom of religion,» not once.
The Republican Party is most vulnerable because the Religious Right, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renominaRight, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renominaright's social agenda, and won renomination.
The New York Times: Irish Poised to Revisit Abortion Law Abortion is back on the agenda in Ireland after a European Court of Human Rights ruling last year found the state in violation of its own Constitution on the matter.
- Undermining the primary rights of parents in order to coerce children and families into compliance with and servitude to the state's cultural agenda.
He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.
I once attended a lecture in which a right - wing evangelical speaker used isolated examples of eco-terrorism to paint the entire green movement as having a «violent, anti-Christian agenda.»
When you build another's trust in that manner and then later say to him, «Let me tell you about Jesus», it only continues his distrust that your goal, your hidden agenda all along, was to build his confidence only to sneak in later and convince him that «your» religion is right and «his» religion is only sending him to hell.
In addition to worrying about their own flocks, they also fear that the West, smitten with the BJP's growth - oriented economic agenda and preoccupied by the threat of Islamic extremism, ignores the constriction of religious freedom and human rights in India todaIn addition to worrying about their own flocks, they also fear that the West, smitten with the BJP's growth - oriented economic agenda and preoccupied by the threat of Islamic extremism, ignores the constriction of religious freedom and human rights in India todain India today.
We have no doubt if elected, he will work tirelessly to take away our civil rights, allow anti-gay bullying in schools, promote the immoral anti-gay agenda and rip our families apart... all in the name of his «religious beliefs.»
Latin American Christians demand the right to think through the faith in the light of their own situation, to set their own theological agenda and work out their own responses to the questions of the region.
Now, a disgruntled troll of human being that complains about their rights being trampled when someone else pronounces their faith get laws put in place to support their enormously bias, self - centered and self - serving agenda.
When it comes to young boys, parents have the final say, not the gay rights activists who pressured the BSA to fall in line with their agenda and have turned Scouting into yet another cultural battleground.
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Why as a Christian, are you not standing up to this evil in this world with Prayers & Leadership, shining Gods light on their Darkness being executed in secret right now as the Global Agenda?
Is it possible the political right wing pushing the «birther» issue in the US and other fringe agendas, might be pushing the Vatican through various shady channels in order to scare US nuns who support the poor in America, thereby hoping to squeeze a few anti-Obama votes come November?
In determining the «core rights» that constitute the heart of our human rights agenda, it is important to consider the way we use language.
In short, this is not an exhaustive list; the priority agenda concerns living, the right to live and the right to life.
In backing the former Massachusetts governor and all but certain GOP presidential nominee, both National Right to Life and the Susan B. Anthony List highlighted what they called Romney's strong «pro-life» positions and criticized President Barack Obama for what they call a «pro-abortion agenda.»
Indeed, in my decades of work around issues such as euthanasia, utilitarian bioethics, animal rights, transhumanism, and other associated agendas, I have found that the more one rejects human exceptionalism, the more likely one is to declare that immoral and (still) illegal wrongs — like infanticide — are virtuous.
While his account is often sloppy, he is nevertheless right that the transhumanist agenda is a logical consequence of Gnosticism (which he and many others mistake for Christianity), and that this Gnosticism, which has theological roots in the Scotist - nominalist revolution in metaphysics, ever more exclusively shapes the modern cultural imagination and our understanding of what it is to be human.
The GOP is cramming a religious right agenda down our throats in order to get a Mormon elected!
Ever since the Regan adminstration, the religious right has grown more powerful and more aligned with right - wing politics with a clear and unashamed agenda to «Christianize» secular law in the US.
When in the culture politics of today the right comprehensively packages its agenda under the label «pro-family,» it is mirroring the definition of the conflict proposed by the left.
There are still people in my life who try to guilt me occasionally, most of which do not know the whole story, nor understand (or try to understand) the parts of the story I have shared, and therefore do not have the right to speak their opinions or controlling agendas into my life.
In this light the new US administration's policy concerning these rights, articulated at the beginning of the recent Gay Pride month provides a politically significant boost to the UN's current gender agenda (see appendix).
This was never going to last, since heresy and relativism had, of course, never disappeared from the «papal agenda» and neither — perhaps more to the point — had his (and his predecessor's) analysis that disunity in the modern church was the result of a clash between two different interpretations of the Council itself, one right, the other wrong: as Benedict once more explained it, as his first Christmas as Pope approached in December 2005, «On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call «a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture» [i.e., the line peddled by The Tabletfor thirty years]; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology.
Objectivism and the Right Wing agenda both have in common intense self centered interest - which lies at the core of the Republican / Tea Party movement.
«Particularly ominous,» says Mr. Rich in tones most ominous, «are the many ideological and financial links between the PK hierarchy and organizations that are pushing the full religious - right agenda of outlawing abortion, demonizing homosexuals, and bringing prayer and the teaching of creationism to public schools.»
As events at this summer's Republican National Convention in San Diego show, the putative alliance between the religious right and the Republican Party offers little solution; and the truth is that grave dangers exist regardless when the independence of a religious mission is married to a particular political party's agenda.
Movements to use Him to promote their agendas, whether they be on the Left or Right, are extremely suspect in the eyes of this Christian.
* As Tavis Smiley reports in his new book on Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader faced a major decline in popularity during his last few years, as many thought his social justice agenda too radical.
What is disturbing is the stance of using religion to further an agenda in much the same way that Fox News and the Right has attacked The Pope for saying that money is evil.
The desire to bestow victimhood on virtually all poor people in America was dramatically intensified in the 1960s by the fusion of liberalism's civil rights agenda with its welfare state agenda.
Conversely, virtually point by point, the Christian New Right represents the agenda of the business class (and of other strata interested in material production) with which the new class is locked in battle.