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Showing posts with label Conservatism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conservatism. Show all posts
Thursday, January 13, 2011
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Friday, December 24, 2010
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Sunday, December 5, 2010
After Benefiting From Voter Furor Over Economy, Conservatives Prioritize Divisive Social Agenda in States | Progressive States Network
The morning after Election Day, conservative candidates across the country woke up to find themselves the beneficiaries of an historic national wave of voter anger over the state of the economy and record unemployment. Exit polls and other surveys unanimously showed that jobs and the economy were by far the primary issues on voters’ minds as they cast their ballots - while they simultaneously revealed no mandate for a conservative economic agenda that would hurt working families.
Yet in the first few weeks after this clear voter statement of frustration over the economy, conservative state lawmakers across the fifty states are already making it clear that their legislative priorities next year will include pushing a divisive social agenda - an agenda that remained largely hidden during the campaign.
Chief among the fights soon to take center stage in many statehouses will be a renewed right-wing attack on reproductive rights. Troy Newman, the leader of the notorious anti-choice group Operation Rescue, recently described the post-election outlook for social conservatives in the states by saying it made him feel like “a little boy on Christmas morning - which package do you open up first?”
After Benefiting From Voter Furor Over Economy, Conservatives Prioritize Divisive Social Agenda in States | Progressive States Network
Yet in the first few weeks after this clear voter statement of frustration over the economy, conservative state lawmakers across the fifty states are already making it clear that their legislative priorities next year will include pushing a divisive social agenda - an agenda that remained largely hidden during the campaign.
Chief among the fights soon to take center stage in many statehouses will be a renewed right-wing attack on reproductive rights. Troy Newman, the leader of the notorious anti-choice group Operation Rescue, recently described the post-election outlook for social conservatives in the states by saying it made him feel like “a little boy on Christmas morning - which package do you open up first?”
After Benefiting From Voter Furor Over Economy, Conservatives Prioritize Divisive Social Agenda in States | Progressive States Network
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
American Principles Project claims CPAC reconsidering GOProud attendance
Image by TalkMediaNews via FlickrThe Iowa Communications director of the American Principles Project is claiming that CPAC is reconsidering if it will allow gay conservative group GOProud to attend the convention this year, due to pressure by social conservative groups. The culture wars are back:http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2010/11/american-principles-projects-open-letter-to-cpac/
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Group Urges GOP to Recognize Moral Concerns - US - CBN News - Christian News 24-7 - CBN.com
Image via WikipediaConcerned Women for America CEO Penny Nancy responded saying,"Americans voted overwhelmingly for both social and fiscal conservatives," and the incoming leadership could easily embrace an agenda driven by social concerns.Group Urges GOP to Recognize Moral Concerns - US - CBN News - Christian News 24-7 - CBN.com
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Catholic Bishops Elections Today Signal Active Anti-Gay Move | The New Civil Rights Movement
Image by Getty Images via @daylife"The day before he began his new post last April, Dolan came out swinging, ready to fight against marriage equality, saying, “You can bet I will be active and present and, I hope, articulate in this position.” Dolan has referred to gay marriage as a “detriment to civilization.” He has also said he will challenge any suggestion that Catholics are unenlightened because they oppose gay marriage.
Calling it “surprising,” the New York Times reports, “The bishops also signaled that their conference will move in a decidedly conservative direction in their choice of a vice president. They elected Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, who is chairman of the bishops committee on marriage and an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage. The runner-up for vice president was Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver, also a strong theological and political conservative."~~Catholic Bishops Elections Today Signal Active Anti-Gay Move | The New Civil Rights Movement
Pro-Traditional Marriage, Pro-Life Groups Respond to Tea Party Activists Calling for Abortion Backdown
Image via WikipediaThe letter jointly signed by Republican gay rights activists and a small group of Tea Party leaders has sent shockwaves throughout the . . . movement.
Center-Right tries to steer Tea Party from Social issues
"The Godless wing of the Conservative movement, the so-called Center Right, is trying to steer the Tea Party Movement away from social issues such as abortion and marriage issues, keeping them focused purely on economic concerns, as if economic concerns were the root of our ills in American society. While America continues to see its values erode, with families breaking up and Americans isolating themselves from one another, while abortions rise and divorces along with them, the Godless Center-Right wants the powerful Tea Party movement to turn its gaze away from God and follow the same Godless values these Center-Right elites want to force the rest of us to follow. If the Tea Party movement follows this guide, they will become an ineffective and useless movement that will fizzle back into the background from where they came."http://freedomist.com/2010/11/16/center-right-tries-to-steer-tea-party-from-social-issues-like-abortion-christian-news/
Some social conservatives still confident their agenda can now move ahead
Image by gerry balding via FlickrAlthough there have been reports of the death of social conservatism, it would appear that these have been greatly exaggerated. The post below, just one of many, many I have come across in my internet trawlings:
Blue Collar Philosophy: Tea Party Should Not Abandon Social Issues; No State Has Supported Gay Marrige
Religious Right Slams Gay-Tea Party Alliance
Image by Getty Images via @daylife "FRC points out what we noted, which is that most tea partiers are firmly in the social conservative camp:According to the latest data, an overwhelming number of Tea Partiers (almost two-thirds) believe abortion should be outlawed. About half believe in the Bible as the literal word of God, and most think that public officials don't pay nearly enough attention to it or religion as a whole. According to Zogby data, 82% of them oppose same-sex 'marriage.'"Religious Right Slams Gay-Tea Party Alliance | Mother Jones
Monday, November 15, 2010
The Death of Social Conservatism?
Are the reports of social conservatism's death greatly exaggerated? Or is the US joining Great Britain in being a nation of social progressives?Social Conservatism: An Obituary
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