Sentences with phrase «social conservative groups»

On the flip side, as gay Republican groups have taken off, social conservative groups like the Family Research Council have seen their influence wane.

Fiscal and social conservative groups backed Hoffman's candidacy.

RealClearPolitics.com quoted openly gay Republican U.S. House candidate Carl DeMaio about how he's been received by opposite ends of the political spectrum: «I've found more tolerance, acceptance and inclusion from social conservative groups who have to reconcile that I'm a Republican who happens to be gay... versus the intolerance the LGBT leaders see me as a gay man who happens to be a Republican.»

The president of the Club for Growth, an influential group promoting tax cuts, issued a statement Tuesday saying parts of the House bill «fails the pro-growth test,» while social conservative groups pushed lawmakers to restore a tax credit for families who adopt children.

growth test,» while social conservative groups pushed lawmakers to restore a tax credit for families who adopt children.

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Many governments, businesses and social organizations rely on the data, and opposition groups argue the Conservatives are attempting to influence future public policy decisions since low - income earners and immigrants will be less likely to fill out a voluntary form.

«Elimination of caucuses and conventions would mean nuclear war with the grassroots, social conservatives, the Ron Paul movement and Tea Party Republicans,» said John Tate, a senior Paul advisor who now runs the Campaign For Liberty, a libertarian grassroots lobbying group.

In mid-December, a group of national social - conservative leaders gathered at a hotel in Tyson's Corner, Virginia, to take a straw poll of presidential preferences.

In the speech that urged the Alliance to embrace social conservatives, Harper also said that left - wing Canadians stand for «radical, responsibility - free individualism» and «tribalism in the form of group rights.»

Topic categories: Information is presented in six different categories — Environmental Issues; Social Issues and Sustainable Governance, Ethical Finance, Other Governance and Conservative Groups.

He goes on to say, «Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC and think tanks to the media and social groups.

Christian Zionism has been denounced as unbiblical and even unchristian by some Christian groups, including the National Council of Churches, but it has become an orthodoxy of sorts among Republican social conservatives.

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.

In the book, Tickle describes four groups — liturgicals, social justice Christians, renewalists, and conservatives.

According to this explanation, religious groups, especially those of a conservative or fundamentalist hue, mobilize themselves in reaction to perceived threats to their social standing or security.

But according to Senator Gavin Marshall, chairman of the «Left federal parliamentary Labor Party caucus,» writing in The Age, Gillard's decision to allow a «conscience vote» on «gay marriage» is «not democratic,» because it «exposes individual parliamentarians to powerful conservative lobby groups» and the retrograde opinions of those «stubbornly opposed to all social reforms.»

Remnant charismatic groups in mainline Protestant circles persist, sometimes identifying with socially conservative renewal groups that oppose progressive leaders in mainline denominations, attacking their liberal social stances.

Although many observers see this growth only as evidence of the increasing irrelevance of religion, the nonreligious represent an important cultural group, as liberal on social issues as the most committed religious people are conservative.

A growing coalition of conservative political leaders, religious groups and government officials is leading the attack against publicly supported programs of sex education, school - based health centers, guidance programs in family planning, and other activities designed to address the sexual needs of youth from both a social and a health perspective.

Those who are involved in small groups often claim that these groups have influenced how they think on political and economic issues — for example, raising their interest in questions of peace and social justice or, in the case of conservative religious groups, generating ire about abortion and gay rights.

Many Catholic families want to be able to provide for their children not be dependent on social programs which by the way Conservative Groups want to do away with.

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

The motion was brought forward jointly by the Conservative (CDU / CSU), Social Democrat (SPD), Liberal (FDP) and Green groups.

Despite pressure from a social conservative organization, Sen. John Cornyn, R - Texas, will attend a fundraiser for a Republican gay and lesbian advocacy group.

Washington (CNN)- Sen. John Cornyn, R - Texas, dismissed a request Wednesday from an influential social conservative organization to skip a fundraiser for a Republican gay and lesbian advocacy group, saying that even though he does not agree with the group on social issues he shares its views on fiscal discipline and economic policy.

Even though the primary movement for this group was in the aftermath of the manifesto launch, this is hard to link to the Conservative's social care or pension plans, since this group is the least likely to be immediately affected by them.

A one - person social conservative «group» based in Virginia, which is busy using the ads to pad out its fundraising email list.

He was the Executive Member for Adult Social Care and Health in the Borough between 2006 and the local elections earlier this year, when Labour regained power at Camden Town Hall, at which point he replaced Andrew Marshall as Conservative group leader.

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

In particular, the groups hope the Trump administration can address aspects of the Affordable Care Act considered especially vexing for social conservatives as well as concerns such as «the numerous small business owners who have been negatively affected by the push to keep people of faith out of the public square.»

The effort, part of a national movement through the Family Policy Alliance and a network of 40 additional state - based groups, underscores the skepticism some social conservatives held for Trump's candidacy and lifestyle.

The American Conservative Union, a group that promotes what it describes as Reagan conservatism on the fiscal as well as social fronts, is out with a 2016 ranking of the NYS Legislature.

The Conservatives have recorded their highest poll rating for seven years, beating Labour in every social group.

Following outcry from gay and lesbian and women's groups — and harsh criticism from her former colleagues in the City Council — Public Advocate Letitia James downplayed her endorsement of social conservative Councilman Fernando Cabrera in his failed bid for a State Senate seat.

According to the latest YouGov poll, the Conservative lead over Labour is at 5 points among those from social grades A, B and C1, and -11 for those in C2, D and E groups.

From 2001 to 2003 she was a Consultant to Renewing One Nation, the social affairs unit at Conservative Central Office, and a member of the Conservative Women's Manifesto Group.

Labour are seen struggling in the top AB social grouping, winning just 26 per cent of their support compared to 47 per cent for the Conservatives.

The Donald J. Trump Foundation gave away $ 158,250 in 2014 to fight cancer and other diseases, many of which target children, and donated $ 141,000 to groups that promote conservative social policy he would espouse in his presidential campaign a year later, state and federal records show.

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.

According to Elliott's slides, this movement includes the Taxpayers» Alliance and other officially non-partisan groups like MigrationWatch and the Countryside Alliance, centre - right charitable thinktanks including the Centre for Social Justice and Policy Exchange, activist groups like ConservativeHome, and Ukip as well as the Conservative party.

Far from trumpeting their involvement, gay rights groups have been largely silent about their role in Senate campaigns for fear of raising the ire of social conservatives.

Lamb leads a cross-party group of Lib Dem, Labour and Conservative MPs, including the chair of the health select committee, Sarah Wollaston, who recently met the prime minister and pressed her to put the funding of the NHS and social care on a more sustainable footing.

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.

The Lib - Dems are not liberals but Fabian social therapists The Conservatives have long been the main home of British liberalism and some Tory MPs are looking hopefully to the «Orange Book», published in 2004 by a group of liberals including Nick Clegg, David Laws and Vince Cable to «reclaim» liberalism for the Lib - Dems.

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.

As opposed to liberals, conservatives generally view the social world as more competitive, they tend to value group - based inequality more, and they perceive those outside the group as more threatening.

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

When I published a piece earlier this year about the tense estrangement between conservative education reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education Reforconservative education reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education ReforConservative Education Reformers.»

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.

If today's patriots are a big - tent group of conservatives and social justice warriors, Millenials and baby boomers, think tankers and classroom teachers, then our tyrants are devotees to hyper - partisanship, a one - size - fits - all philosophy, and a mindset that twists «equity» into opportunity for some, not all.