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National Anthem under threat claim republicans 20 April 2014
Republican supremo David Morris pushed three untruths in April to coincide with the Royal Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George. One w...
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(Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune) Congressional candidate Mia Love speaks to the Western Republican Leadership Conference as they held a rally at the South Towne Convention Center, Friday, April 25, 2014.
Big names Sen. Ted Cruz calls Obama most lawless president in U.S. history as RNC chairman, Gov. Herbert enthuse crowd in Sandy.
Sandy It looked like a scene from the movie "Patton," with the leader standing in front of a giant U.S. flag to address the troops.
And Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a potential presidential candidate and tea party darling, rallied a vast army of Utah Republicans into a cheering frenzy Friday at the South Towne Convention Center as they prepare for political war this election year.
"We are seeing extraordinary threats to our liberty," Cruz said. "I am absolutely positive were going to turn this country around."
He and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus headlined the three-hour-plus rally with Utah GOP leaders as part of the Western Republican Leadership Conference here this week, a day before the Utah Republican Convention at the same site.
Cruz had more than 1,000 Republicans screaming out replies to a series of questions.
"Can we retake the U.S. Senate?" The crowd yelled in unison, "Yes we can."
They did the same as he asked, "Can we abolish the IRS [Internal Revenue Service]," "Can we repeal Obamacare," and "Can we bring back morning in America," President Ronald Reagans mantra.
Cruz said the Obama administration is "trying to violate each and every one of our constitutional rights."
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As the demographics of religion change in the United States, faith may have a different degree of influence than it once did.
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Is religion the most important thing in your life? This is one of the questions people had to answer in a 2013 Public Religion Research Institute/Brookings surveyas researchers tried to figure out how much faith influences people's viewson culture and the economy. They got pretty striking results: More than half of people who they considered to be "religious conservatives" said yes, while only about 10 percent of people classified as "religious progressives" said the same. This means that on a whole host of issues, ranging from abortion and gay marriage to welfare and the minimum wage, faith probably has more of an influence on how conservatives think than it does for liberals.
It's tough to get inside people's heads and understand how their beliefs about God affect their views on culture, but a new report from Brookings hints at why researchers might want to: In terms of numbers, religious progressives are gaining on religious conservatives. According to the researchers, "religious progressives" are people of faith who have typically "liberal" opinions on a range of issues: They want more government support for the poor, rather than less; more freedom to have pre-marital sex and drink, rather than less, etc. From this break-down of age and race, you can see that religious progressives dominate America's growing populations:
Blacks, hispanics, and people of mixed race are all more likely to be religious progressives than conservatives; these groups are also among the fastest-growing demographics in the United States. Similarly, Millennials are more than twice as likely to be religious progressives than religious conservatives; in fact, people older than 50 make up more than 60 percent of those who are considered to be religious conservatives. Although it's impossible to talk to an 18-year-old about her views on culture and predict what she'll think in two decades, these demographic trends suggest that the religious right is about to start shrinking.
But the question of influence is a little fuzzier. Although more than a third of Millennials are considered religious progressives, roughly 40 percent don't have any faith at all: A growing number of young people don't identify with a particular religion. That, alongwith the fact that an overwhelming majority of religious progressives don't see religion as "the most important thing in their life," suggests that faith is losing its overall influence over how people think about social and cultural issues.
As the authors of the Brookings study wrote, "Religious progressivism, precisely because of its diversity, will never constitute the same cohesive and relatively homogenous force that religious conservatism represents." In terms of individual hearts and minds, it's hard to tell how much of a role "religion" has in the new wave of "religious progressivism"it's possible to be religious and progressive at the same time, but it's also possible that those progressive beliefs don't have much to do with God.
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How the Marxist, Egalitarian, Communist Liberals Flooded America with Third Worlders
They had to destroy the dominate ethnic makeup of the US to ensure their own hegemony. (they all Just so Happen to be jews, a complete coincidence, no doubt )
By: Richard Prepucio
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Vancouver East Liberals Talk Pot
April 23, 2014 Pot activist Jodie Emery breaks down yesterday #39;s town hall on marijuana legalization in Vancouver.
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