Sentences with phrase «social conservatives on»

With the move, President Donald Trump — who indicated during his campaign that he might protect LGBT rights — has sided with social conservatives on a key issue at the center of a broader cultural battle between conservatives and liberals.

It may surprise many that hardline communists were also hardline social conservatives on the matters of family and sexuality.

Not exact matches

Many in corporate America are still trying to work out how to deal with a new government that takes a more conservative stance on some social issues and has an anti-globalisation platform.

He's very, very progressive in a lot of respects on social issues and he's somewhat conservative on fiscal issues.»

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.

Women's health advocates got a partial win on Tuesday as Ohio Governor John Kasich, a devoutly religious social conservative, vetoed a controversial «fetal heartbeat» bill that would have outlawed abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

«Canadians might not like them as politicians — they may not vote for them because they're too conservative on social issues — but they're not the kind of governors that make trouble for Canada.»

His remarks appeared aimed at the FDP and the Social Democrats (SPD), who on Monday ruled out renewing their «grand coalition» with the conservatives.

A U.S. Senate committee launched an inquiry on Tuesday into how social media website Facebook selects its news stories after a report that company employees blocked news about conservative issues from its «trending» list.

Not only are Johnson and Weld social liberals and fiscal conservatives, they espouse views traditionally associated with moderate Republican candidates on the economy, such as favoring international trade agreements and reducing the national debt.

On abortion, another key topic for social conservatives, Harper said while running against Day that the Alliance could not afford to focus on the issuOn abortion, another key topic for social conservatives, Harper said while running against Day that the Alliance could not afford to focus on the issuon the issue.

On Sunday, Germany's Social Democrats party voted overwhelmingly to form a coalition treaty with incumbent conservatives in order to usher in a new government.

Last month, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee invited Hardaway and Richardson to speak at a hearing on «Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms» as poster children for Facebook's bias against conservatives.

«The Wildrose was not founded on political principles, like the fiscal conservatism of the Progressive Conservatives, or the social democracy of the New Democrats — but rather it was created, out of nothing, for the sole purpose of exerting political pressure on the PC government.»

Using a 4 % withdrawal rate and assuming no pensions or social security — to be on the conservative side — that comes up to $ 12 million ($ 480,000 divided by 0.04)

A Liberal insider told this blogger that Mr. Turner is seeking the Liberal nomination because he «decided that the conservatives are not progressive on social issues.»

To social conservatives, particularly evangelicals, the Stormy Daniels saga presents an ethical quandary: The president they've tasked with defending Christianity against the «secular left» allegedly cheated on his third wife, just months after she gave birth, with an adult film star.

Many Wildrose Party and federal Conservative politicians have supported Levant's Rebel website on social media, through online interviews, and participation in rallies and events organized by Levant and his employees.

A salvo from University of Manitoba economists, and PEF members, Ian Hudson and Robert Chernomas, based on their new book, Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics: The Myth of Conservative Economics January 2008 «The government can't pick winners, but losers pick government.»

Responding to popular pressure, Merkel's conservatives and their left - leaning Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners agreed on Thursday to tighten asylum rules, reaching a compromise on how to stem the influx of migrants.

If your pension and Social Security are enough for you to live on, you can be as conservative with your money as you like.

But another «social conservative» or family / natalist guy, Allan Carlson, is big on saying that the Democrats were the more pro-family party through the Sixties.

Matthew Schmitz has a terrific post which discusses Mike Murphy's suicide - for - the - Republican Party idea that the Republicans should abandon social conservatives and focus on hard headed economic conservatism.

McDonnell eloquently defended his social conservative beliefs and kept his focus on the economy.

But it takes a special kind of nerve to caution conservatives about «the high costs of tying a church with a rich tradition of social teaching to the right end of politics,» when you are on board with efforts at the left end of politics to alter and thereby betray that tradition.

The Republican National Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the social conservative criticisms of the party on Thursday.

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.

«As Hispanic Catholics in the U.S achieve upward mobility, they may become a little more conservative on social justice and concern for the poor,» Dillon says, «but currently many of the issues that are especially important to Catholics in Latin America are also very important to Hispanic Catholics in the U.S.»

Baxter is on most questions a theological conservative, but on matters social and political he is pretty much an unexpurgated lefty, as was the case with his heroine, Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker movement.

Speaking after the documentary Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the peer and former chairman of the Conservative Party, said British Muslims had made more progress in changing their attitudes on various social issues since they arrived in Britain in the 1950s than the Church of England and the Conservative Party had over the same period.

The survey found that most Tea Party members reflect the views of religious conservatives, as opposed to libertarians, on social issues.

«The biggest reason we've seen all this action on abortion since the GOP came to power is that social conservatives are still a very important part of the Republican coalition,» says John Green, an expert in politics and religion at the University of Akron.

It is a mistake to think that the 2012 election results were primarily the result of conservative stances on social issues articulated by the candidates.

Right wing conservative types have a Jesus who is against gay marraige, is anti-abortion, thinks there should be prayer in school, and teaches the prosperity stuff and so on... Left wing liberal Christians quote the verses about giving up possessions, feeding and clothing the poor... inner city Christians often have a Jesus who is about social justice... we were made in His image?

So, too, the conservative movement should continue to stand on principle with respect to social issues.

Yeah, it makes me feel better denouncing baptist cause of my family's involvement with the KKK to become a catholic and the hate by socialism and such from conservative uncompassionant individuals on the moral question of social justice issues.

Now they blatantly take on the Republican and conservative voters of American with a purely Roman Catholic social agenda?

Moderate Protestants (along with Catholics) tend to «lean in a conservative direction on personal life - style issues and in a more liberal direction on matters of social justice.»

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.

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.

Reuters: Saudi clerics protest against appointing women to advisory body Dozens of Saudi clerics staged a rare protest in front of the Royal Court on Tuesday against King Abdullah's decision to appoint women to a body that advises the government on new laws, a sign of growing conservative unease at modest social reforms.

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.

Though the Supreme Court is far from a consistent proxy issue for social conservatives or religious voters, it does provide a flashpoint for issues of religious liberty, traditional moral values, and abortion - on - demand.

CNN: Anti-Obama mail piece: «We are no longer a Christian nation» Focus on the Family, the Colorado - based social conservative organization founded by evangelical author and radio host James Dobson, is targeting Iowa voters with a mailing that quotes President Obama as saying «we are no longer a Christian nation.»

Democrats with conservative positions on social issues such as abortion continue to disappear from Congress.

As head of Students for Life of America, overseeing student - led organizations on around 1,200 high school and college campuses nationwide, I know from experience that social conservatives can not cede the territory of culture and expect to survive.

Of particular interest is a fifteen «page exchange with Robert P. George on the agreements and disagreements between communitarians and social conservatives.

Perhaps more than any other candidates, Perry and Bachman have staked their campaigns on winning social conservative voters.

We suspect that when the conservative clergy preach on such topics it is to denounce such individual action — when they preach on crime they emphasize «Thou shalt not steal,» while the more liberal clergy emphasize the social causes of crime.

The hate - filled rhetoric has become so intense from the «right» especially the social conservative and tea - partiers, that we are quickly becoming a nation that can't have any rational discussion on the issues.