World debates abortion: Local religious leaders voice opinions on theM.J. McCollum
Issues such as abortion, homosexuality, religious instruction, and the targeting of school curricula from radical conservative premises, as well as the appointment of religious leaders to high government positions, have occupied the political agenda as never before in the country’s political life. ...
Smith would like to provide her services for heterosexual weddings, but as a matter of religious conscience feels that she cannot provide the same services for same sex weddings. Colorado forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and interprets its statute to include businesses that ...
He draws on the issue evolution framework to develop a model of the process through which polarized stands by party leaders on cultural and moral issues such as abortion, gay rights, and the role of women have been translated into changes in the religious composition of the parties' coalitions...
If January 6this the coup that failed, the Supreme Court is the one that has succeeded. The extremist majority, abandoning both precedent and good sense, has gone rogue, wreaking havoc with a barrage of malignant decisions. While the recent decisions on abortion and climate change are the most...
We will extensively probe such topics as belief in God and the afterlife, attitudes toward the authority of sacred writings, frequency of worship attendance and prayer, views on abortion, attitudes about the proper role of government and opinions on foreign affairs. Using the responses to these ...
(abortioninducers). On that basis they also believed that providing coverage of those methods in their employees’ health insurance plans would be tantamount tofacilitatingabortion and therefore inconsistent with the tenets of their Christian faith. They argued that, because HHS imposed considerable ...
They don’t duck the issue, but instead tackle it head-on like this … ‘all clinically recommendedvaccinations can be used with a clear conscienceand that the use of such vaccines does not signify some sort of cooperation with voluntary abortion ...
On August 5, 1999, the New Jersey Supreme Court, upholding a lower New Jersey court, unanimously decided that the Boy Scouts there violated a "public accommodations law" by excluding homosexuals. The opinions of the justices were that the disapproval of the Boy Scouts was mere "bigotry" and...
Conclusion We provide evidence that religious values framing can nudge self-identified white evangelical Republicans' opinions away from the party line on refugees. While some earlier studies found religious messages can shift evangelicals' views on immigration in a somewhat more bipartisan era (Margolis...