Sentences with phrase «than the religious right»

If you are this angry than the religious right has already beat you.

His moral rhetoric flows more directly from the economic than the religious right, as do the items at the top of his policy agenda.

Not exact matches

Has anyone else noticed that the religious right seems to have more than the average number of conspiracy buffs?

I'm guessing these objections are primarily aimed at gay rights rather than potential atheists running religious organizations.

I will not have the religious right tell me Gay people are an abomination no more than I will have an Athiest tell me I am deluded or unintelligent.

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

Indeed, moderates, the only white Protestant group to lose more members to other religious families than they gain, appear to be drained from both sides, supplying recruits to both the left and the right.

Poor parents, no less than rich, have the constitutional right to educate their children in their religious faith.

«What's at stake is the First Amendment right to religious liberty, and nothing goes to the heart of this civil liberty more than conscience rights,» said Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League.

no better than the Pharisees and the «religious right» of Jesus» day.

But one could say that the movement had never been other than «religiocified» «-- though it was the «Reverend» prefixing names like King, Young, Shuttlesworth, Fauntroy, Abernathy and Bevel that made the public aware of the deep religious roots of the civil rights movement and of black rhetoric.

To suggest that total voluntary exclusion and participation in an individual's self selected religious practices and spiritual life is somehow politically incorrect or wrong, or making it a target of criticism or political point, is nothing less than a display of ignorance and disregard for individual rights.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

The Bible can't be used to verify claims any more than the Quran or the Book of Mormon, as all religious texts first require a basic belief on the part of the reader that they (the texts) are right in order to be viewed as such.

Those with any moral clarity at all have heard a better voice in this campaign: no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification, but the test of values and integrity, and a president who respects family and rights of faith is better than one who, like you, claims a religious label but then opposes family and faith.

I have a suspicion that sexism plays a more significant role in the religious right's fierce opposition to Hillary Clinton than some would like to admit.

«Rather than trying to replicate the exact jots and tittles of what Utah did, we're looking at the idea that if you try to address both concerns on the front end, you can actually get a more comprehensive set of religious liberties than if LGBT rights moves forward on its own and you try to come in later in the game and attach religious liberties,» said LoMaglio.

You can not point to any one and say this is the right one (with any authority other than «what you want to believe») Every religious text I've ever read is clearly written via the various perceptions of man, not some divine being.

He has proven to be WAY more Christian than most of you hate - mongering, racist, religious - right Christian freaks.

When it got seriously underway in the mid-1980s, many thought home schooling was little more than another gesture of disgruntlement on the part of «the religious right.»

Obviously God paid more attention to me than the faux - Christians of the Religious Right.

For example, even though the liberal state has no right to require its citizens who are Christians to accept Locke's proposition that toleration and a respect for religious freedom are the marks of the correct understanding of the Gospels, it has every reason to hope that they do, and perhaps to do more than hope — to educate and persuade, if not to coerce.

think what you like, sit in the corner and complain but NEVER think you and the religious right can force folks to do as you think is correct because once you are allowed to do that your faction becomes no different than the list of tyrants throughout history.

I think the anti religious argument is that we all think we are right or holier than thou, sorry bronze age storybook words again.

Interestingly enough, he is nevertheless more «christian» than most of the right wing religious nuts that call themselves «christian.»

Both mainline Protestant and Catholic churches have been addressing the degradation of human sexuality and especially of women that pornography entails rather than emphasizing as the religious right groups do the inherent objectionableness of sexually explicit and sexually stimulating material.

If you have ever seen Shawshank Redemption you have the very «Religious» Warden of the Prison who lies, cheats, and has people murdered while he passes judgement on the Prisoners, they typical mindset of the Religious Right they use bully tactics to control people with religion while they live personal wicked lives worse than any Gay person they hate.

the crazies are breeding faster than common sense — education is failing to teach realities (due to the religious right cuts)-- it won't be long before we blow this planet up — hehe

These are folks who do not necessarily want to abandon orthodox Christianity but are driven by the gut feel that orthodoxy itself has a menu that includes more than just Bill Bright's «Four Spiritual Laws» and the Religious Right's politics.

In doing so, he neglects the testimony of John Adams, Benjamin Rush, Alexander Hamilton, John Dickinson, and others of the founders, whose views on the source of natural rights are far more religious than those of Locke (narrowly interpreted).

I think that most right wings religious conservatives would hate Romney and consider him the antichrist if they only had someone other than Obama to vote for.

But that freedom is just one of many that we enjoy in the United States — and religious tolerance is no more, or less, valuable than are rights to free speech, to bear arms, to be free from search and seizure, to be presumed innocent until proven otherwise, to be tried by our peers, to have our day in court, to not be imprisoned or fined without cause, to ensure State's rights, to be free from slavery and involuntary servitude, and on, and on, and on.

Large sections portray contemporary anti-Semitism as a phenomenon of the right, with a full chapter given to a vicious caricature of «the religious right,» when in fact anti-Israel and overtly anti-Jewish passions today are more than equally on the left.

Leading up to the issues of birth control and abortion he declares that marriage is a natural right of man rather than a religious or civil institution.

I believe that I am going to fumble this election, because I need the Republican lunatic fringe — the religious right — to get the nomination, but they just won't trust someone who believes in a slightly different version of Jesus than the one they believe in.

In the middle of that crowd — which likely would have included more than a fair share of holy or influential or important or preferred or religious people — Jesus heads right for that tree and calls out to that guy — the one who is a social and religious outcast, ridiculously perched up in the branches — to come on down because Jesus wants to go to that guy's house for supper.

Romney says Obama infringing upon religious rights Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of infringing upon Americans» religious rights in a fiery address to more than 2,500 supporters Monday in Colorado.

The attitude of the religious left toward South Africa's «right - wing religious groups» — meaning the overwhelming majority of evangelicals — would matter little if the stakes involved nothing more than disputations over arcane issues of theological doctrine.

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

@ Salero: seems to me Jesus spent a lot more time slamming people on the religious right (people like me) for not getting it than those on the left (from whom — for the most part — he didn't expect more).

Later, the series will look at the so - called «Religious Right» and none other than evangelicalism's favorite....

The reality of divine revelation is a truth closer to the center of the faith than is the truth that religious freedom is a right of persons that should be recognized in law; but both are true.

He knew that the meeting was little more than a communist propaganda ploy, but he also sensed that the threat of a nuclear holocaust was so grave he had to take a stand for disarmament, despite resistance from the Reagan administration and steel - tipped invectives from the Religious Right.

What really got under my skin was that Dobson played the «you don't take the Bible as seriously as I do» card on a guy who, in my opinion, takes it more seriously than most folks on the religious right.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

Existing religious organizations registered less than 15 years ago wouldbe forced to register again by the end of 1998, and until approved they wouldbe deprived of legal rights.

I can't help but feel that those (left or right) who defame on religious grounds, are more concerned with their Special Interest than they are with the fate of our Country.

In our religious lives, I often think we've forgotten how to marvel, how to not know, how to hold faith that is more true than it is right.

Though in interviews Falwell appears more moderate on this subject than his book would suggest, we can expect the religious right to harass homosexuals and to try to deny them their civil rights.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz