[permalink] [id link]
Social conservatives ( in the first meaning of the word ) in many countries generally favor the pro-life position in the abortion controversy and oppose human embryonic stem cell research ( particularly if publicly funded ); oppose both eugenics and human enhancement ( transhumanism ) while supporting bioconservatism ; support a traditional definition of marriage as being one man and one woman ; view the nuclear family model as society's foundational unit ; oppose expansion of civil marriage and child adoption rights to couples in same-sex relationships ; promote public morality and traditional family values ; oppose atheism, especially militant atheism, secularism and the separation of church and state ; support the prohibition of drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia ; and support the censorship of pornography and what they consider to be obscenity or indecency.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Social and conservatives
Social conservatives believe that the government has a role in encouraging or enforcing what they consider traditional values or behaviors.
Social conservatives see traditional social values as threatened by secularism, so they support school prayer and oppose abortion and homosexuality.
The political left, comprised mainly of Social Democrats, covering a wide spectrum from moderate to revolutionary socialists ; the political right was even more diverse, ranging from social liberals and moderate conservatives to rightist conservative elements.
The passing of the Tokoi Senate bill, called the " Power Act ," in July 1917 became the first one of the three culminations of the power struggle between the Social Democrats and the conservatives during the political crisis from March 1917 to the end of January 1918.
After the dissolution of the Finnish parliament, the polarization of the Social Democrats and conservatives increased dramatically.
The disintegration of Russia offered the Finns a historic opportunity to gain independence, but after the October Revolution, the positions of the conservatives and the Social Democrats on the sovereignty issue had become reversed.
The Social Democratic parties refused to accept the increased taxes on goods, while the conservatives opposed increases in inheritance taxes.
Social conservatives often see the West as a decadent and nihilistic civilization which has abandoned its roots in Christianity and / or Greek philosophy, leaving it doomed to fall into moral and political decay.
As of 2011, Pedro Passos Coelho is the prime minister for the liberal conservatives Social Democratic Party in coalition with the right-wing conservative People's Party.
Social conservatives are sometimes opposed to such events because they view them to be contrary to public morality.
Social conservatives found fault with Mulroney's government in a variety of areas.
Social conservatives denounced the poem as flouting accepted norms of morality due to its blatant depictions of human sexuality.
Social conservatives opposed the character on religious grounds, while some gay rights activists were also upset with the character of Jodie, arguing that certain story developments reinforced negative stereotypes, e. g. his desire to have a sex change operation, or represented a desire to change or downplay his sexual orientation.
Niebuhr battled with religious liberals over what he called their naïve views of sin and the optimism of the Social Gospel, and battled with the religious conservatives over what he viewed as their naïve view of scripture and their narrow definition of " true religion ".
The Social Credit Party had been a tenuous alliance between urban fiscal conservatives and Christian conservatives in the province's Bible Belt.
Social conservatives may sometimes support economic intervention where the intervention serves moral or cultural aims.
Social conservatives emphasize traditional views of social units such as the family, church, or locale.
Social conservatives would typically define family in terms of local histories and tastes.
Social conservatives are strongest in the South, where they are arguably considered a mainstream political force on a national level.
Although founded to promote social credit policies of monetary reform, the Social Credit Party became a political vehicle for fiscal conservatives and later social conservatives in BC, who discarded the social credit ideology.
The conservatives shored their position against the Social Democrats, on 18 May 1930, the Heimwehr of the CS declared their Korneuburger Eid ( Oath of Korneuburg ), in which they openly called for the overthrow of the parliamentary democracy (“ Wir verwerfen den westlichen demokratischen Parlamentarismus und den Parteienstaat !”)
The crushing of the Social Democrats opposition by the conservatives however meant a further weakening of Austria, as infighting within the Heimwehr and the conservatives continued.
Social and first
* 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
Hill accepted a position as a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at University of California, Berkeley in January 1997, but soon joined the faculty of Brandeis University — first at the Women's Studies Program, later moving to the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
Other anti-war demonstrations were organized by the antiglobalization movement: see for example the large demonstration, organized against the impending war in Iraq, which closed the first European Social Forum in November, 2002 in Florence, Italy.
The first World Social Forum ( WSF ) in 2001 was an initiative of Oded Grajew, Chico Whitaker, and Bernard Cassen.
The first European Social Forum ( ESF ) was held in November 2002 in Florence.
After the 2011 state election, there is a coalition of the Social Democratic Party with the Christian Democratic Union, and for the first time ever, the Pirate Party won seats in a state parliament in Germany.
In 1920, while mayor, he wrote his first book, The Social Worker, which set out many of the principles that informed his political philosophy and that were to underpin the actions of his government in later years.
Social work pioneer and journal editor Paul Kellogg offered Eastman her first job, investigating labor conditions for The Pittsburgh Survey sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation.
In November 2002 the city was the place of birth of the first edition of the European Social Forum.
In the 1998 federal election, despite a slight fall in their percentage of the vote ( 6. 7 %), the Greens retained 47 seats and joined the federal government for the first time in ' Red-Green ' coalition government with the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ).
Social reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote the first known argument for homosexual law reform in England around 1785, at a time when the legal penalty for buggery was death by hanging.
Senator Philip Le Feuvre topped the poll in 1948 on a platform of implementing Social SecurityThe first election under the new constitution saw a struggle for dominance between the Jersey Democratic Movement and the Jersey Progressive Party, led by Cyril Le Marquand.
He was made Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in 1985, before being promoted to become Minister of State in the same department in 1986, first attracting national media attention over cold weather payments to the elderly in January 1987, when Britain was in the depths of a severe winter.
During that time Dewey also initiated the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to actualize the pedagogical beliefs that provided material for his first major work on education, The School and Social Progress ( 1899 ).
Theodor Heuss was elected the first President of the Republic, and Adenauer was elected Chancellor ( head of government ) on 16 September 1949 with the support of his own CDU, the Christian Social Union and the liberal Free Democratic Party.
Two months into his imprisonment, the first Congress of the newly formed Russian Social Democratic Labor Party ( RSDLP ) was held, and from then on Trotsky considered himself a member of the party.
The first anarchist journal to use the term " libertarian " was La Libertaire, Journal du Mouvement Social and it was published in New York City between 1858 and 1861 by French anarcho-communist Joseph Déjacque.
After England, Germany was the first European country to pass labour laws ; Chancellor Bismarck's main goal being to undermine the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ).
Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.
The Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social ( PRDS ), led by President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, has dominated Mauritanian politics since the country's first multi-party elections in April 1992 following the approval by referendum of the current constitution in July 1991.
Most opposition parties boycotted the first legislative election in 1992, and for nearly a decade the Democratic and Social Republican Party ( PRDS ) dominated the parliament.
The People's Great Khural first met on 3 September and elected a president ( MPRP ), vice president ( SDP — Social Democrats ), prime minister ( MPRP ), and 50 members to the Baga Khural ( small Khural ).
0.171 seconds.