Sentences with phrase «social conservatives seeking»

Some have built on this line of reasoning by suggesting that oral contraceptives should be given over-the-counter status too, as a replacement for comprehensive insurance coverage of contraception.1 Similarly, social conservatives seeking to exclude Planned Parenthood from public programs such as Medicaid have argued that less - specialized health care providers, such as federally qualified health centers, could fill the void this would create.2 And in October, a leaked White House memo recommended that funding for the Title X national family planning program should be cut by at least half and suggested that money could be better used for teaching adolescents about fertility awareness methods exclusively.3

The case drew even more attention because of the role of history and historians in the litigation: elements of the pro-free trade argument entailed an originalist analysis, a technique which is often a tool of social conservatives seeking to squash rights for women, LGBT people, and others, and very uncommon in Canadian constitutional cases.

Not exact matches

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.»

Even since the New York Times hired conservative pundit William Safire to bring «balance» to its pages, columnists have sought not to be judicious but to stridently represent a particular political — or ethnic or social — viewpoint.

This broader understanding of what we seek to defend should make social conservatives both more and less political than we have tended to be: We should be more political in that we do more than occasionally resort to legal appeals to protect our own freedom of action.

The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).

This paper presents an approach to social and legal policy that would combine many concerns of both liberals and conservatives, that would work patiently toward long - range goals, that would embrace a dialogical notion of the common good, and that would seek to promote the general welfare by attending to the conditions under which individuals, families, and communities prosper.

Whereas the NCBCPS has a list of advisers that reads, in Chancey's words, «like a Who's Who of religious, social and political conservatives,» the Bible Literacy Project seeks to represent a much broader spectrum of religious views, and the book's reviewers and consultants include Jews as well as Christians of virtually every stripe.

On the contrary, this was the speech of what Cameron is and always has been: a one - nation Conservative who is still seeking, in the words of Matthew d'Ancona's important new book about the coalition, to solve the political theorem that dominates post-Thatcher Britain — that of combining the vigour of market economics with social justice and social responsibility.

Liberal Democrat insiders point to the fact that Kennedy and his supporters emerged from the SDP, the old Social Democratic breakaway party, but that in seeking to «break the mould» of British politics and merging with the Liberal to become the Liberal Democrats in the 1980s, never in their wildest dreams expected to end up supporting a minority Conservative Government intent on the most swingeing cuts in public spending since the Second World War.

Merkel recognised that social attitudes have changed rapidly, and a smart conservative does not seek to hold back the tide.

Progressive policies were liberal when they were first proposed, but now that they've been established for almost a century they've become a part of the American tradition and so many conservatives will seek to conserve something like Social Security.

A wise third party (and the Libertarians are not wise) would seek to claim the fiscal conservative mantle while redefining «social conservatism» as a form of liberalism and embracing what we now call «social liberalism».

Cuomo is seeking a second term this year, and the speech gave him a high - profile forum to promote his first three years while unveiling a series of proposals intended to please both social progressives and fiscal conservatives.

Meanwhile Crabb sought to position himself as the compassionate Conservative heir to David Cameron, making an upbeat speech focused on life opportunities and social mobility.

While Lhota painted himself as a fiscal conservative, he sought distance from national Republicans on social issues by reiterating his support of abortion rights and same - sex marriage.

Until the Crewe and Nantwich by - election, 2008, the opposition Conservative Party had not gained a seat in almost 26 years, the last being the Mitcham and Morden by - election, 1982, which occurred during the unique circumstances of the Falklands War and the sitting Labour MP defecting to the Social Democratic Party and seeking re-election under his new party label.

He challenged those who don't believe in government seeking social justice by pointing out that the very building they were in, Hawkstone Hall, had hosted launches of Wilberforce's anti-slavery drive, the ragged school movement of Shaftyesbury (pictured) and that the spire was donated by the family of Abraham Lincoln who had drawn his inspiration from the conservative moments that had started there.

As part of the EU truce, the Conservatives will drop their plan to seek an opt - out from some social legislation, especially the working time directive, but will seek to «limit (its) application».

Spanning the years 1962 - 1968, Actionism was a provocative performance movement with roots in postwar gestural abstraction (Action Painting) that sought to transgress the conservative Viennese social climate by using the body as material in violent, explicit, sometimes sexual Aktions.

These camps include abstract painters, social practice artists, conservative and theologically minded artists, various critics and their acolytes, digital media artists, and my personal favorite, the Art School Pedagogists, who «seek to arm their followers with free knowledge to counter and subvert academia's authority.»

The blog bills itself as «stakeholder communication meets social networking» and is seeking to walk a fine line, catching the essence of a hipster web 2.0 application while still managing the professional conservative face expected of a Government legal entity.

Not long after the shooting, conspiracy theories began to abound on conservative social media and blogs that the shooting could largely be laid at the feet of the Broward Sheriff's Office and the Broward County School Board for programs that sought to deal lightly with juvenile misdemeanor crimes.

Social conservatives have long sought to exclude Planned Parenthood from public programs and funding streams on ideological grounds, a campaign that kicked into overdrive both in the states and in Congress with the 2015 release of deceptively edited videos attacking the organization.15, 16 At the congressional level, attempts to exclude Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving Medicaid reimbursement came close to succeeding last summer as part of broader efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

At the same time, the Trump administration and many social conservatives in Congress are seeking to limit the federal funding streams on which these providers rely, to roll back the coverage advances of the ACA and to scale back federal investment in Medicaid.