In opposing interpretations of the Bible that are supportive of homosexual relationships, conservative Christians have argued for the reliability of the Bible, and the meaning of texts related to homosexual acts, while often seeing what they call the diminishing of the authority of the Bible by many homosexual authors as being ideologically driven.

However there remained multiple ideologies and governments that were ideologically related to fascism.

Often these two parties are ideologically related, in the 2003 general elections for example the Socialist Party and GreenLeft formed a lijstverbinding.

This activism was ideologically related, although distantly, to the thoughts that would result in Fascism in Italy.

Through an analysis of public responses to two separate but related events in contemporary Singapore — a church's claim that " homosexuals can change " and a former prime minister's published comments about openly gay civil servants in his administration — this article explores how a " gay community " has been imagined in Singapore, where homosexual acts remain illegal and where a " conservative majority " has been ideologically mobilized by the state and moral-religious entrepreneurs.

The Latvian National Awakening () refers to three distinct but ideologically related National revival movements:

* In the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), the ideologically right-wing, and anti-Communist, Kuomintang party was so organised.

By the 1960s, the party was starting to become defined ideologically.

The Second Congress renamed the party, and tried to revitalise it by admitting to past mistakes and evolving ideologically.

The policy of national reconciliation was given a major ideologically role, since the party now looked for a peaceful solution to the conflict.

In the years leading up to World War I, the party remained ideologically radical in official principle, although many party officials tended to be moderate in everyday politics.

Unacceptable thought is known as crimethink in Newspeak, the ideologically purified dialect of the party.

Though both were ideologically on the right wing of the Liberal party, Manley's attacks on Martin's campaign donations had likely poisoned the relationship between the two men, hurting Manley's chances of remaining a Minister.

The party did not believe that public ownership was efficient or desirable ; ensuring that they were not seen to be ideologically pursuing centralised public ownership was important to the party.

It usually designates a party that is ideologically based around liberalism.

That decision opened the party ideologically and allowed the incorporation of new militants.

As a merger of several small parties, the party was ideologically diverse, with its membership ranging from moderate social democrats to neoliberals and conservatives.

True to this party line, the leadership of the Soviet Composers ‘ Union branded composers as " zionist aggressors " or " agents of world imperialism ", and made accusations of " ideologically vicious " and " hostile " phenomena in Soviet musical culture.

The party also attracted significant support as a protest vote against official bilingualism among some voters who were not necessarily ideologically opposed to mainstream Canadian political parties on other issues.

His campaign focused on the issue of centralising the control of the party away from the branches and activists, and what he argued was the trend of placing the SNP ideologically in the centre ground of politics, away from the party's traditional position on the left-of-centre.

While the party is currently member of the centre-left coalition, led by the Democratic Party ( PD ), its members had been very diverse ideologically, ranging from the far left ( i. e. Franca Rame, a former member of Soccorso Rosso, and Pancho Pardi, a former activist of Potere Operaio ) to right-wing, thanks to the populist message of the party.

It usually designates a party that is ideologically connected to social liberalism.

The party became seriously ideologically disoriented.

The PML-N, the first established ruling party of Pakistan after partition under Jinnah, was split in 2002 when the incumbent government formed the PML-Q Thus, although the party was fractured, the dissent, which consisted of conservative, military loyalists, yielded a more ideologically cohesive PML-N.

Because of tensions over the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip ( Tkuma was ideologically opposed, particularly because Hendel lived in the Gaza settlement of Ganei Tal ), National Union ministers Binyamin Elon and Avigdor Lieberman were sacked, the former after attempting to avoid his fate by hiding, and the party left the coalition.

Coalition with the reformed-Communist PDS ( which was later to merge into the Linke party ) or with the left-wing Greens was ideologically impossible.

While there were several other movements on the Christian side in Lebanon that cooperated with Israel during the war, the LNR was the only organization openly and ideologically committed to this, regarding a Lebanese-Israeli axis as the best protection against Arabism and the Palestinians.

With the rise of new, vibrant and less ideologically rigid protest movements in the 1980s, in opposition to the continued occupation and to the war in Lebanon ( Committee for Solidarity with Birzeit University, committees against torture and house demolitions, Yesh Gvul, Alternative Information Center, Workers Advice Center, and so on ), the different factions of Matzpen lost much of their raison d ' etre.

The decision to move to America and become American citizens was primarily a result of the Manifesto of Race promulgated by the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini in order to bring Italian Fascism ideologically closer to German Nazism.

This is a departure from Nkrumah's foreign policy approach ; Nkrumah was frequently accused of subverting African regimes, such as Togo and Côte d ' Ivoire, which he considered ideologically conservative.

Between 1922 and 1991, the history of Russia is essentially the history of the Soviet Union, effectively an ideologically based state which was roughly conterminous with the Russian Empire before the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

The construction of the dam was endorsed in 1959, however, after the purge of relatively liberal and nationally oriented leaders under Eduards Berklavs and their replacement by Moscow-oriented, ideologically conservative cadres led by Arvīds Pelše.

Following independence in 1960, Mali initially followed a socialist path and was aligned ideologically with the communist bloc.

This was not merely a by-product of the Kulturkampf, but part of an integrated strategy to promote republicanism in France by strategically and ideologically isolating the clerical-monarchist regime of President Patrice de Mac-Mahon.

The myth made him out to be a dogmatic ideologue and ardent nationalist when, in fact, he was ideologically flexible.

However, the ' politically correct ' thought agendas of the neo-Darwinists of the 1990s are ideologically opposed to the idea of ' Lamarckian Feedback ', just as the Church was opposed to the idea of evolution based on natural selection in the 1850s!

In the earlier book, Heim personally, as a privateer waging an undeclared war on the Aleriona, forced a reluctant Earth into an all-out war — which Heim felt was needed since the Aleriona were ideologically committed to the universal conquest of everybody else ( apparently, in this context, the analogue of Communism — though the Aleriona do not resemble Communists in any particular detail ).

Some feminists, most notably Alice Echols and Ellen Willis, held that after about 1975 most of what continued to be called " radical feminism " represents a narrow subset of what was originally a more ideologically diverse movement.

More nuanced versions of this general view are to be found in the works of other Western historians, such as Robert Service, who notes that " institutionally and ideologically, Lenin laid the foundations for a Stalin ... but the passage from Leninism to the worse terrors of Stalinism was not smooth and inevitable.

* The / ( TI, " third way / insurrectionist ") faction, led by Humberto and Daniel Ortega, was ideologically eclectic, favoring a more rapid insurrectional strategy in alliance with diverse sectors of the country, including business owners, churches, students, the middle class, unemployed youth and the inhabitants of shantytowns.

The cultural phenomenon of Viking expansion was re-interpreted for use as propaganda to support the extreme militant nationalism of the Third Reich, and ideologically informed interpretations of Viking paganism and the Scandinavian use of runes were employed in the construction of Nazi mysticism.

While originally meant simply as a neutral ethno-linguistic classification, it was later used for ideologically motivated racism in Nazi and neo-Nazi doctrine, as well as in occultism and white supremacism in particular.

The aim of the NFF was to establish a pro-PDPA organisation for those who did not support the PDPA ideologically.

A member of the Labour Party's " soft left ," Wilson joked about leading a cabinet that was made up mostly of social democrats, comparing himself to a Bolshevik revolutionary presiding over a Tsarist cabinet, but there was arguably little to divide him ideologically from the cabinet majority.

The USSR was ideologically committed not to Islam but to world proletarian revolution, led by Communist parties under its leadership, but " frequently abandoned support to foreign communist parties when it served Soviet national interests to cooperate with the governments that were oppressing them.

In 1962 she was visited by Robert Frost ; Isaiah Berlin tried to visit her again, but she refused him, worried that her son might be re-arrested due to family association with the ideologically suspect western philosopher.

The Jewish community was ideologically diverse and included both religious Hasidim and secular Zionists.

Observing events from Europe, Karl Marx, who was ideologically sympathetic to Frémont, contemptuously regarded Seward as a " Republican Richelieu " and the " Demosthenes of the Republican Party " who had sabotaged Frémont's presidential ambitions.