Sentences with phrase «social conservatives forcing»

You can keep campaigning against social conservatives forcing their views on you.

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«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

Both liberals and conservative Christians cite Niebuhr - liberals for his emphasis on social justice and conservatives for his willingness to use force to oppose evil.

In fact, social conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country club!)

I am not minimizing the power of social and psychological forces that mold a congregation's conservative outlook and behavior.

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

Lively, engaging, and super-relevant, Reviving Old Scratch revisits the theology of the devil and demons to forge a fresh way forward that avoids the conservative tendency to over-spiritualize the devil and demons on the one hand and the progressive tendency to reduce these powerful forces to social issues on the other.

to make it a purely «conservative social force.»)

When devising social policy, especially in a time of great social change, there is always the danger that social policy becomes a conservative force — that designing it to reflect «what we do now», while meeting short - term needs and providing short - term satisfaction, hinders positive development towards «what we may become».

Here, contrary to the Conservatives, the objective is not to justify the status quo and abandon citizens to the forces of capitalist markets but instead, in a Polanyian fashion, to «re-embed» these ideals in traditional social relationships and institutions.

The AfD could end up as the biggest opposition force in the national assembly if there is a re-run of the current coalition of Merkel's conservatives and Social Democrats (SPD)-- one of the most likely scenarios.

The Conservatives would also fund schemes to get graduates to serve in schools, police forces, prisons, and social care and mental health organisations — so they can use «their talents to tackle entrenched social problems», as detailed in their manifesto.

The primary contests, in significant respects, reflect the ongoing battle between newer progressive forces and old school social conservative traditions in -LSB-...]

The main aim of the Labour Party was, arguably, simply to re-establish themselves as the main progressive centre - left alternative to the Conservatives, after the rise of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) forced Labour onto the defensive.

By being actively involved in real and virtual social networks, and becoming known as positive forces for change, Conservatives will start to overcome the negativity or suspicion that still exists towards them in many parts of the country.

In 1986, Vasconcellos managed to persuade California's conservative GOP Gov. George Deukmejian to support a blue - ribbon task force to promote self - esteem and personal and social responsibility.

Learning outcomes: To outline and evaluate the theories which claim that religion is a conservative force, preventing social change.

To apply evidence of where in the world and how religion has acted either as a conservative force or a force for social change.

Some conservatives believe they are being forced to support a broader set of social issues and embrace strategies or tactics they do not agree with as a litmus test to determine whether they are true change agents in education.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.