Sentences with phrase «same conservative states»

On the other hand, in those same conservative states, renters find themselves at the company's mercy for the same regulatory reasons.

On the other hand, in those same conservative states, renters find themselves at the company's mercy for the same regulatory reasons.

Not exact matches

At the same time, however, older viewers are a highly desirable advertising group, and the network has the added appeal of being a must - watch for one particular conservative - leaning older man, namely the president of the United States, Donald Trump.

As the Supreme Court gets ready in June to rule on the issue for the second time in two years, conservative states have rushed to enact so - called Religious Freedom Reformation Act (RFRA) laws that would allow businesses to object on religious grounds to serving LGBT people and same - sex couples.

And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.

Having endured for half a century a Court that seized authority not confided to it to lay down as unalterable law a liberal social agenda nowhere to be found in the actual Constitution of the United States, conservatives must decide whether they want a Court that behaves in the same way but in the service of their agenda.

In their it states love thy neighbor as you love your self and most conservatives could give a crap about someone else, and These same Christians treat our President like dirt.

Many social conservatives are rightly disappointed and dismayed by the Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which effectively legalized same sex marriage in all 50 states.

With federal judges in two highly conservative states striking down «defense of marriage» laws as unconstitutional this January, more church - state experts are advising same - sex marriage opponents that the marriage battleground should shift to religious freedom.

What really animates Hedges» anger at religious conservatives, however, is their recent political power and success on the state level at banning same - sex marriage ¯ an issue that has been central to Hedges since his father made him start a gay - rights group at college.

But his attempt to cast himself as in the same boat as marginal Democrats in a Democrat - dominated state is certainly an interesting approach — one some of his more conservative colleagues might look askance at, and the Democrats more than likely won't let go unchallenged.

The state Democratic Party responded to the Republicans» new «more of the same» ad campaign with this little Web video, which reminds GOP and Conservative leaders how they used to feel about Carl Paladino — «lo those many moons ago before they embraced him as their gubernatorial standard - bearer.

Saying he believes the gubernatorial game is «over,» state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long has pulled a power play on his Republican counterpart, Ed Cox, by calling his convention four days ahead of the GOP get - together in the exact same location.

Unlike in 2010, when the state Conservative Party held its convention prior to the GOP's gathering and endorsed former Rep. Rick Lazio in an effort to box the Republicans into doing the same, the Conservative confab will follow the GOP's Rochester event on March 16 this year.

Following state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long's assertion that he is too moderate for NY - 23, Matt Dohney is firing back, casting himself as in the same camp on abortion rights as another of Long's endorsed candidates, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio.

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long made it quite clear that no Republican senator who crossed party lines to vote «yes» on same - sex marriage last summer would receive his endorsement.

During the same period, the National Rifle Association of America, based in Virginia, contributed $ 54,000 to the New York State Conservative Party, which also funds Republicans.

Conservatives set their convention for May 28 — four days before the GOP convenes its state convention at the same Manhattan hotel.

Indeed, both Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones and Conservative Secretary of State Stephen Crabb have argued that Wales should be offered — though not necessarily accept — the same powers on offer to Scotland through the Smith Commission process and its aftermath.

In 2012, when the Conservative Party launched its consultation into legalising same - sex marriages, Blackman suggested that David Cameron should resurrect Section 28, stating that he strongly believed that «Section 28 was the right rules to have in school so that we should not in any way shape or form promote same - sex relationships» and said he would be «very opposed» to seeing teachers being forced to say same - sex relationships are equivalent to heterosexual relationships.

Conservatives have criticized Cuomo's use of messages of necessity on issues ranging from gun control, same - sex marriage and the passage of the state budget.

Grisanti in 2011 was one of four Republicans in the state Senate to back the legalization of same - sex marriage and, less than two years later, provided a vote in favor of the gun control law known as the SAFE Act, a measure that has stirred anger among the conservative base.

The state Conservative Party released its annual legislative rankings today and reported that both the Senate and Assembly improved their overall standing during the 2011 session despite voting in favor of the legalization of same - sex marriage — an issue the party vehemently opposed.

The lawsuit filed by a conservative group seeking to repeal the same - sex marriage law that took effect Sunday relies on a lot of assumptions, incendiary charges and the hope the judiciary will become involve with the rules of order in the state Senate.

ICYMI: State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long is unabashedly opposed to the legalization of same - sex marriage in New York, and has made it clear that any Republican senator who votes «yes» will be in danger of losing his party's support come 2012.

It is highly unlikely McDonald will receive the nod from the state Conservative Party, given the decree from Chairman Mike Long that no one who voted in favor of same - sex marriage should receive the vital line for Republicans.

«After 12 years of my conservative policies, we replaced dependency with opportunity, resignation with hope, mere existence with dreams, a welfare check with a paycheck,» Mr. Pataki said, adding, «I know we can do the same thing for the United States.»

Conservative Republican State Senator Greg Ball, the same guy who made national news last year when he tweeted that Boston - marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be tortured, despite that he is an American citizen.

In the North East, the first UK region to declare, the state of the parties remained the same, with one seat going to Labour, one to the Conservatives and one to the Liberal Democrats.

MANHATTAN — A conservative group has filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the state's same - sex marriage law, a day after hundreds of gay couples tied the knot on the first day that marriage equality went into effect.

In the first political rebuke of one of the four Republican state senators who voted for same - sex marriage, the Erie County Conservative Party has endorsed a Democrat who is challenging Mark J. Grisanti's re-election bid.

Many are crediting Democrat Terry Gipson's win in New York's 41st State Senate seat over incumbent Republican Stephen Saland to Conservative Party candidate Neil DiCarlo, who entered the race on the sole issue of Saland's vote for same - sex marriage.

Gipson was elected to the state Senate in the 41st District (most of Dutchess County, part of Putnam County) in 2012, ousting 20 - year - incumbent Steve Saland, R - Poughkeepsie, in a three - way race that also included Conservative Party candidate Neil DiCarlo, who challenged Saland on his crucial vote for same - sex marriage in New York.

The Buffalo News notes that Senator Mark Grisanti's proposed district is now entirely contained within Erie County, which means the local Conservative Party will control the party's nomination, rather than the state Conservative Party, which has vowed to oppose legislators like Grisanti, who voted for same - sex marriage.

Much was made of the fact that state Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay expressed personal support yesterday for the legalization of same - sex marriage, with some suggesting this could somehow neutralize the state Conservative Party's threat to deny its endorsement — and ballot line — to any Republican who votes «yes» on the bill.

[8] The Welsh Liberal Democrats and Welsh Conservative Party stated they did not want the referendum to be held on the same day as the 2011 Assembly elections and would abstain from voting to trigger the referendum if this date was not ruled out.

Jim Gerlach talking to himself: Let's see, I can run for an open, Executive Branch, Governors Seat or I as a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership who supports Stem - Cell Research, some LGBT Rights and Environmental Issues, where my primary opponent would be an ultra-right conservative who already ran another moderate GOP member to the Democratic party, and if I survived that bloody primary fight, would then face the six - term incumbent senator with long roots in the same part of the state as me and who had a 60 % approval rating among Pennsylvania Democrats before he decided to switch parties and will have a popular president campaigning for him in an already 55 - 45 Democratic state.

The Conservative Party opposed the same - sex marriage law, which passed both houses of the state Legislature and was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2011.

Cameron is credited with coining the phrase «There is such a thing as society, it's just not the same thing as the state» (seen as a rejoinder to Margaret Thatcher's famous comment that there is «no such thing» as society), [27] which has been said several times by David Cameron, including in his victory speech following his victory in the Conservative party leadership election in 2005.

Many argued the whole concept is now dated, with one long - serving Conservative backbencher stating: «It's much over-egged, mainly coloured by the fact we speak the same language.»

But for state Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long, whose endorsement is important to Republicans, same - sex marriage is «a line in the sand.»

More than 700 Protestant and Jewish clergy members endorsed same - sex marriage Tuesday through the Empire State Pride Agenda advocacy group, an attempt to blunt the opposition by Catholic leaders, orthodox Jewish leaders, and conservative Protestant ministers.

President - Elect Donald Trump's pro-life platform against abortion, along with his support for traditional family values, marriage as stated in the Bible as one man and one woman instead of same - sex marriage, in favor of prayer and the reading of sacred scripture in our public schools, and his promise to appoint conservative judges to the United States Supreme Court made Evangelicals and even Democrats who espouse those positions to support Donald Trump.

The state Conservative Party has warned GOP lawmakers that no candidate who votes in favor of same - sex marriage will receive its endorsement — a potent threat in the narrowly divided chamber.

Senate Republicans were under particular pressure from conservatives, who were already upset with the Legislature for legalizing same - sex marriage last year and for approving a tax overhaul in December that created a new tax bracket for the state's highest - income earners.

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

Ehrhardt went on to become a liberal Democratic state representative at the same time as Laura's conservative Republican husband became Texas governor.

But a more productive response is to recognize that the unions are frustrated by the same things that have frustrated conservative school reformers in recent years — the eagerness of the Obama administration to impose its particular school - reform agenda on states, as rapidly as possible and by whatever means necessary.

At the same time he is asking unions to become more inclusive by becoming «democratic,» he rails against Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, conservatives, white - populated areas of the state, right - wing Republicans, privatization, corporate reformers, charter schools, vouchers, etc..

Conservative state lawmakers who rail against federal mandates often find themselves using the same weapon in dealing with their own cities and counties, Stateline.org reports.