Social Conservatives

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Another GOP Swipe Against Women

Candace Straight | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Republcian Party, Social Conservatives, GOP Debate, Right Wing Extremism, 2010 Election, Republican Leadership, Woman's Rights, Senate GOP, Republcian Majority for Choice, 2010, Moderate Republican, Moderates, Candace Straight, Pro-Choice, Rmc, Politics News

As a Republican, I favor limited government. But the Republican senators who voted against the anti-rape measure ignored common decency and basic human rights.

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Faux Noise Fear Factory

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Faux Noise, Worldnetdaily, Social Conservatives, Conservatives, Glenn Beck Fox News, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel, Media News

I'm calling it "Faux Noise" until it starts acting like a legitimate news organization. The White House is well within its rights to deny access because Roger Ailes is running a fear factory, not a news channel.

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Glenn Beck, Cult Leader

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Social Conservatives, Cult of Mormonism, Conservatives, Social Conservative, Cult of Personality, Christian Conservatives, Glenn Beck Fox News, Glenn Beck, Cult of Beck, Media News

Democracy Corps did a series of focus-groups with movement conservatives in Georgia and found them happily living in their own special reality. the conservative movement has become a cult.

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The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Ann Coulter, Olympics, Lobbyists, Blue States, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Adultery, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Michael Savage, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Manchurian Candidate, Constitution, Republican Party, Bob Ney, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Lobbying, Scandal, Barack Obama, Red States, Homosexuality, John Ensign, Sean Hannity, Oxycontin, Neocons, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, David Vitter, Conspiracy, Contract With America, Prostitution, Mail-Fraud, Big Tent, Tax Evasion, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Teenage Pregnancy, Divorce, Internet Porn, Fox News, Phil Gramm, Hal Turner, Al Gore, Summer Olympics, Pilonidal Cyst, Vietnam Draft-Dodger, Draft-Dodging, Vietnam War, Politics News

Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.

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Why President Obama Should Welcome a Discussion of Social Issues, and Why He Needs to Lead One Now

Drew Westen | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Tiller, Abortion, Obama Social Issues, Social Conservatives, George Tiller Killed, Abortion Laws, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor Abortion, Obama Abortion, Social Issues, Politics News

Whether the public is with Democrats on social issues depends entirely on whether they continue to remain silent or whether they speak to the public in ways that address their values and sensibilities.

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Note to the GOP: Stop Shunning Social Inclusivity

Candace Straight | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Social Conservatives, Fiscal Conservatives, Republican Party, Social Inclusivity, Republican Base, Republicans, Politics News

The disconnect between the leadership and the base is so wide that any effort to keep centrist, women and younger voters in the Republican party is becoming impossible.

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Conservatives Rise Up Against Obama's First Court Pick

CBN | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Nominee, Federal Appeals Court, Social Conservatives, Obama Courts, US Appeals Court, Conservatives, Obama Court Nominees, Lee Hamilton, Barack Obama Nominee, Obama Nominees, Barack Obama, David Hamilton, George Hamilton, Politics News

Maybe the Obama administration should have nominated George Hamilton instead of David F. Hamilton. The hollywood actor may have an easier time at conf...

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Faith! Family! Films! And the Crystal Teddy Goes to...

David Sterritt | Posted 02.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Awards, Dr. Ted Baehr, John Templeton Foundation, Coen Brothers, Film, Hollywood, Tim Burton, Faith, Movies, Family, Dvd, There Will Be Blood, Clean Play Dvds, Social Conservatives, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Morality and Films, Media Censorship, Christian Right, Marley & Me, Sweeney Todd, Religious Right Agenda, Censoring Dvd, Movieguide, Censorship, Religious Agenda, Entertainment News

What riles me is the business of peddling movies on DVD after scrubbing them squeaky clean, or as we used to say in pre-digital antiquity, censoring them.

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The Extremism of Bobby Jindal

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 02.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Abortion, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Jindal, Evolution, Republican Party, Bobby Jindal Governor, Social Conservatives, Religious Right, Creation Musem in Kentucky, Public School System, Living News

In spite of evolution's unprecedented success in explaining the living world, creationism has crept into the mainstream of American thought and into public school curricula in several states.

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Controversy, Controversy

Murray Fromson | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evangelical, Phyllis Schlafly, Barack Obama, Obama Inauguration, Melissa Etheridge, Rick Warren, Anti-Semitism, Social Conservatives, Evangelical Christians, Rick Warren Homophobe, Obama Administration, Obama Compromise, Obama Inauguration Day, Obama Progressive, Bipartisanism, Gay Rights, Religious Right, Obama Warren, Politics News

Obama is a compromiser, a political figure committed to building bridges, even to those who will give him heartburn as well as their support.

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Rick Warren Announcement Is Slap In The Face To GLBTQ Army

Scott Foval | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

Mr. Obama, by choosing Rick Warren, you have sent a shiver up the spine of every GLBTQ American who believed that you might actually be the voice and actor of real change.

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A Fly in the Anointment: Bobby Jindal as the Republican Obama

Disgrasian | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics

It's true! Jindal is young, brown, and the child of immigrants. Since we, too, are young, brown, and the children of immigrants, I guess that means we're voting for Jindal in 2012!

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So What Now, Republicans?

Sahil Kapur | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics

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What's the Republican party to do now? They could continue alienating intellectuals and maintain their march of cultural ignorance, or the party can do some soul-searching and rediscover their core values.

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Ann Coulter Still Yapping

Ben Cohen | Posted 12.18.2008 | Media

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Coulter's solution to Republican problems is for it to become even more extreme than it already is. It's a recipe for disaster (and hopefully one that the Republicans decide to try).

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By Way of Clarification

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics

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Ultimately, no one wins when ideology, whether progressive or reactionary, is allowed to prevail over diversity of ideas, and human will.

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After the Obama Win.

William Galston | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

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On the critical issue of government's role, Democrats do not have a mandate. Rather, they have a chance to make their case.

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Americans Embrace Pro-Education, Pro-Prevention, Pro-Choice Values in Historic Election

Scott Swenson | Posted 12.06.2008 | Living

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Social conservatives have a simple choice to make. They can recognize the US as a pluralistic nation with diverse beliefs and work with people they disagree with, or marginalize themselves.

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Focus On the Family Foresees Unrestricted Porn with Obama Presidency

Theresa Darklady Reed | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Focus on the Family's "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America," tries to whip up fear by insisting that a future under a president Obama "could" see an end to the world as they wish to know it.

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The Fringe Right Bubble is Bursting

Caroline Presno | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

Now we have Republicans, Democrats, and Independents walking away from and speaking out against extreme rhetoric and deeds. The country is ready for an Obama administration.

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The Fall of the Right

Holly Regan | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Social Conservatives, Palin, Religious Right, Obama, Mccain, Election 2008, Colin Powell Endorsement, Offthebus, National Review, Katie Couric Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Katie Couric, Colin Powell Obama, Katie Couric, Christopher Buckley, Republican Party, Home News

The moderates McCain once appealed to have been scared away by dirty politics and a vice presidential candidate who can't even hold her own against Katie Couric.

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Observations From an Ersatz American

Terrance Heath | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Americanism, Jingoism, Anti-Intelectuals, Social Conservatives, Patriotism, John McCain, Anti-Americanism, Joe the Plumber, Racism, Mccarthyism, Race, Politics News

As black gay male, a member of the upper middle class, a college-educated white collar worker, and a non-Christian and non-theist, I am one of the most irrelevant, least important voters in this election.

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McCain's Romney Blunder

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Social Conservatives, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Presidential Race, Sarah Palin, Gop, The Economy, Snl, George Bush, Democrats, John McCain, Politics News

Romney would have been able to make a credible case that he was not a partisan GOP hack but a Republican who actually had to embrace bipartisan politics as governor of Massachusetts.

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McCain Flatlines With Women

Martha Burk | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Lipstick, Social Conservatives, John McCain, Violence Against Women, Women's Issues, Barach Obama, Abortion Rights, Presidential Debates, Feminism, Social Conservative Supreme Court, Breast Cancer, Feminism Politics, Sarah Palin, Vice Presidential Debates, Feminist Politics, Feministsforobama, Politics News

Weren't we all supposed to rush to McCain/Palin when Hillary folded her tent? After all, Palin wears a skirt and McCain obviously figured we girl voters were too dumb to know the difference.

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Clergy Stand Up for Marriage -- Same-Sex and Otherwise

Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Religion and Politics, California Same-Sex Marriage, California Gay Marriage, Florida, Arizona, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Moral Values, Social Conservatives, Prop 8, Family Values, Living News

The conventional wisdom is that religious people oppose marriage rights for same-sex couples. The conventional wisdom is wrong.

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McCain Apologizes For His Campaign But Not For the GOP

Josh Brusin | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gop, John McCain, Mccain, Wedge Issues 2008 Election, Wedge Issues, Palin, Moral Values, Social Conservatives, Conservative Right, GOP Wedge Issues, Xenophobia, 2008 Presidential Race, Social Issue, Mccain Damage Control, Politics News

The Democrats need to take a big tent approach to the GOP's wedge issues. Divide and conquer only works when you have enough wherewithal to fight every divided battle

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