Sentences with phrase «social conservatives need»

Those are the people whom social conservatives need to reach if our political future is to hold anything other than endless defeat.

But in today's political landscape, social conservatives need to reach beyond their base.

Not exact matches

At some point, reasonable, fiscal - Republicans must realize that they'll need to distance themselves from fundamentalist social - conservatives.

The conservative believes that we need to guide ourselves by the moral traditions, the social experience, and the whole complex body of knowledge bequeathed to us by our ancestors.

I think conservatives need to see these qualities for what they are — sources of the continued political and social strength of conservative ideas in America.

His stance can be a little too conservative for my taste (mostly on social issues) but he is articulate and has some well thought out plans, not to mention he is pretty moderate and I think in this day and age we need a centrist, someone who isn't afraid to work with both sides of the aisle instead of just playing party politics and only pandering to one half of the country.

And if libertarians are afraid of conservatives» social positions, all they need to assuage their fears is a belief in their professed ideology — that small government will mean less involvement in people's personal affairs.

I consider myself a devout Christian, but I and my wife are far more concerned with social justice involving the needs of the poor, underprivileged and «least of these», to quote Jesus again, than we are with following the conservative Christian agenda.

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.

American liberals need conservatives to be racist as justification for resisting change to the status quo of our government in terms of social programs and «entitlement» spending.

We also need research on how to reach people who get their information from streaming media and mobile devices and whose social networks do not include many conservative activists.

How our food lives and dies has not been a regular topic of discussion in the evangelical subculture, but a recent effort by a number of prominent Christian social conservatives may open up a needed conversation.

I'm a social conservative who thinks there are moral truths we need to promote simply because they're true.

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».

By the same token, I still believe that we need to rediscover and reinterpret the three overlapping political traditions — conservative, liberal and socialist or social - democratic — that have woven in and out of our history for well over a century; and that we have at least as much to learn from our complex religious traditions as from political ones.

Asked Thursday about his old stances on same - sex marriage, Maragos said: «I've evolved on some of those social principles,» but added, «I am a fiscal conservative, and I think that's what our county needs.»

ANGIE BRAY MP: Nick Clegg is probably a better partner for the Conservatives because instinctively he is a Liberal rather than a Social Democrat and doesn't carry the Labour baggage Vince Cable does from the past — what he needs is a bit of spine - stiffening to remember that sometimes.

Social Liberal Forum campaigns on welfare and food poverty illustrate the need for that document to look forwards as well as back; to solve problems left by Conservatives» espousal of regressive policies.

The Labour party has brought great social advancement to this country, things that you just wouldn't get from the Conservative party (gay marriage, minimum wage e.t.c) The Conservative party needs the change that David Cameron has brought to it.

Frank Field and Michael Portillo both said tat it would be better for Scotland to go independent, Michael gove was described last year in a spectator article as the greatest leader Labours never had, portillos first political hero was Harold Wilson, and black Tory lord John Taylor said of Portillo that he was just pretending to be Thatcherite to further his career in the 80's So to take the view that there are some non Blairite, non Corbyinsta, EU skeptics who appeal to the Socially conservative, yet Social democrat view of politics, what was needed was a 42 year old, Admirer of Frank field and Michael Portillo, who was against Iraq, voted leave, and didn't back David miliband for leader in 2010

The Conservatives announced, just before their party conference, that they favoured a single assessment process for both health and social care needs.

Policies would have to wait for Iain Duncan Smith to report back on social justice, but the Conservatives would need to provide proof of what they would do for the worst off.

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.

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Yet the emergence of global warming as an issue in the 1980s with its potential for large - scale social change needed to ameliorate its threat was seen as more threatening to conservatives in regard to industry, prosperity, life - style, and the entire American - way of life, than were traditional pollution problems.

Online services sometimes are offered by minimally trained and unlicensed therapists, as these counselors do not need to abide by the rules of more conservative mental health professional organizations such as the professional associations of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and marriage and family therapists.