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People who think that church attendance and conservative values equals moral behavior and that the opposite equals immorality also tend to believe that conservative (i.e. good) people belong in the Republican Party and that "the Democrat Party" is the party of immoral, liberal, "Godless" people.
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[ from http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=240 ] No one who knows of the "Christian Coalition" will be surprised that it saw nothing but good in the Republican Party, and nothing but evil in the Democratic Party: ![]() Now, there's another side to this coin. Let's turn it over and see what's on the other side. |
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That's a job for "the Party of Family Values" :
Republicans like the following are rare exceptions:
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"godless liberals" that the Democratic Party has produced :
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When it comes to states with the highest vs. the lowest Divorce Rates ( i.e. per 1,000 for the year 2001 ) |
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with the highest Divorce rates are considered "CONSERVATIVE" :
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states with the lowest Divorce rates, six are considered "LIBERAL" :
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| Sources: Table designed by Ray Dubuque, using data extracted from U.S Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract, 2003, Table No. 126 |
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When it comes to states with the highest vs. the lowest Divorce Rates ( i.e. per 1,000 for the year 2009 ) |
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with the highest Divorce rates are considered "CONSERVATIVE" :
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states with the lowest Divorce rates, six are considered "LIBERAL" :
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| Sources: Table designed by Ray Dubuque, using data extracted from U.S Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract, 2009 |
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| Teen Pregnancy Rates by state : | ||
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Of the ten states with the highest rates of teen pregnancy,
all but one |
Nevada 113 Arizona 104 New Mexico 103 Mississippi 103 Texas 101 Florida 97 California 96 Georgia 95 N. Carolina 95 Arkansas 93 |
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Four of the five states with the lowest rates are considered "LIBERAL" : |
Maine 52 Minnesota 50 New Hampshire 47 Vermont 44 North Dakota 42 |
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| Sources: Table designed by Ray Dubuque, using data extracted from Teen pregnancy rates, ages 15-19, The Alan Guttmacher Institute. |
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Here's a more recent graph covering some of the same ground from the New York Times ( June 27, 2009 ):
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"Looking at what might normally be considered "moral issues," the January 2005 issue of The American Prospect reported some startling comparative statistics on human behavior in red states and blue. In red states in 2001, there were 572,000 divorces; in blue states, only 340,000. That same year, in the red states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico, 46.3 percent of all births were to unwed mothers; in blue states, the average was 31.7 percent.
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| The more civilized states and nations in the world no longer execute offenders who are 18 or younger at the time of their offenses. But the more backward nations and states (all of them conservative) continue to do so. Here are the worst examples, since 1990. | ||||
| Nations : | # | U. S. states : | # | |
| Iran | 8 | Texas | 11 | |
| Pakistan | 3 | Virginia | 3 | |
| Oklahoma | 2 | |||
| The Congo, China, Nigeria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia | 1 | Georgia, Missouri & Louisiana | 1 | |
See http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200908120001 , A former employee of the private contractor that the Bush administration employed more than all the rest, "Blackwater", which is headed by a "devout conservative Christian" named Erik Prince, describes Blackwater as “having young girls provide oral sex to Enterprise members in the ‘Blackwater Man Camp’ in exchange for one American dollar.” They add even though Prince frequently visited this camp, he “failed to stop the ongoing use of prostitutes, including child prostitutes, by his men.” One of the statements also charges that “Prince’s North Carolina operations had an ongoing wife-swapping and sex ring, which was participated in by many of Mr. Prince’s top executives.” http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/07/blackwater-provided-child-prostitutes/ Do you hear even a peep of disgust from any conservative "Christian" Republicans? |
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| For those who need graphics of the tables above, we have created: BlueMinWage.jpg vs . RedMinWage.jpg. As of October, 2006 (prior to the 2006 elections, in which several progressive initiatives improved the situation in several of the red states above, only two of the 33 conservative states had seen fit to require minimum wage workers be paid more than the disgraceful 1997 national minimum wage, while ALL but ONE of the 17 liberal states had adopted higher minimum wages within their own borders than was mandated nationally. Contrary to the claim by opponents to raises in the minimum wage that such increases result in job losses, states which have increased the minimum wage have seen job increases. Oregon likes minimum wage increase, claims job growth
States with minimum wage increase have faster small business growth, Fiscal Policy Institute. (if this paper should cease to be available at this link, email me if you would like me to send you a copy.) Policy Matters Ohio, minimum wage increase, job growth New Mexico study: Minimum wage law hasn't hurt job growth And contrary to unsupported claims that most minimum wage workers are teen-agers, the majority of such workers – according to official statistics – are over 20, and many have children to support. From an AP news item: In last 2006, the House agreed to a $3,100 pay raise for Congress next year to $165,200 after defeating an effort to roll it back. "It's not a pay raise," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. "It's an adjustment so that they're not losing their purchasing power." Federal minimum wage has been $5.15 since 1997. Loss of purchasing power: About 19.4%. In 1997, Congressional salaries were $133,600. The congressmen have raised their salaries a whopping $31,600 since 1997, or 23.7%, but have failed to provide any adjustment of even one penny to enable the working poor to cope with the tremendous increase in the cost of living since 1997. |
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| Sources: Table designed by Ray Dubuque, using data extracted from Murder Rates: FBI Uniform Crime Statistics for 2003. | |
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On March 1, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that children
under age 18, who commit serious crimes such as murder, may not be executed,
and stated that execution of children constitutes a violation of the Eighth
Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. It should be noted that more
than half of the countries in the world have entirely eliminated the death
penalty, and that there are four international human rights treaties that
exclude child offenders from the death penalty. In a worldwide study of the
execution of children between 1994 and 2002, two-thirds of the executions of
children occurred in the United States. |
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Conservative States that believe in executing children : Alabama Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Idaho Kentucky Louisiana North Carolina Utah Mississippi Nevada South Carolina Texas Oklahoma Virginia |
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| Liberal States that believe in executing children : Delaware New Hampshire Pennsylvania |
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| Of the 19 states that did allow execution of children, sixteen are considered "conservative". | ||
on other important "family values" issues, see
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You are so uninformed, that it is scary! You say that "Judging by the low morals of Democrats (as demonstrated by the devotion to libs shown by the degenerate Hollywood crowd), I'm sure there is plenty of dirt to dig up on Democrats." Which party thinks so highly of "the degenerate Hollywood crowd" that it selects them to run for and to fill high offices on its behalf? In contrast to the Greedy Old Party, the only Hollywood actors the Democratic Party has tapped to run for high office on their behalf, have been:
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Here's the best exposé on David Horowitz that I know of.
and here are answers to Republican propagandists like Sean Hannity's and Bill O'Reilly :
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=91585 & SeanHannityEvildoer.com & BillOReillyConman.com When Republicans say they aren't truly trying to get rid of Social Security, along with the rest of the New Deal, ask them what their flamboyant spokeswoman meant when she said, "I think we had enough laws about the turn-of-the-century (1901). We don't need any more." Asked how far back would she go to repeal laws, she replied, "Well, before the New Deal. . . would be a good start." – Politically Incorrect May 7, 1997 [ F.D.R.'s fascist enemies surely didn't have Jesus in mind when they referred to his "New Deal" as "the Jew Deal", but perhaps there was more truth in that name than they knew, since the "New Testament" is just another way of saying "New Deal"]. and "It would be a much better country if women did not vote". "Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 11/8/54 [ a "quote of the year" dug up by David Sirota, Air America talk show host. ]. |
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| After setting out to write a book about how grave a problem we had in America with overmedicating our school children, what author Judith Warner fround and documented in her book, " We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication" was that the problem was seriously over-blown and that parents and educators for the most part are tackling the issues involved very intelligently. | ||
| Republican Roman Lee Hruska was a United States Senator for Nebraska, from Nov., 1954 through 1976. In 1970, as the highest ranking Republican member of the Judiciary Committee, he urged the confirmation of G. Harrold Carswell, whom Nixon had nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that "... there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they?" | ||
| What kind of values moves people to promote a culture of contempt for healthy eating? See http://hubpages.com/hub/Well-Fry-Anything | ||
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Gallup 2009 poll results, asking Americans | ||
| Clergy and Mainline Congregants on Social and Economic Issues | |||
| Issue: | % | % | % |
| Abortion… | General population |
Mainline Clergy | All Mainline Protestants |
| Legal in all cases | 17 | 13 | 23 |
| Legal in most cases | 33 | 38 | 40 |
| combination of the 2 above (i.e. generally supportive ) | 50 | 51 | 63 |
| Illegal in most cases | 29 | 42 | 27 |
| Illegal in all cases | 18 | 7 | 8 |
| combination of the 2 above (i.e. generally opposed) | 47 | 49 | 35 |
| Unsure / don't know | 3 | – | 2 |
| Same sex Marriage | General population |
Mainline Clergy | All Mainline Protestants |
| Gay couples allowed to marry | 29 | 33 | 34 |
| Gay couples allowed civil unions | 28 | 32 | 36 |
| combination of the 2 above (i.e. generally supportive ) | 57 | 65 | 70 |
| No legal recognition | 37 | 35 | 26 |
| Unsure / don't know | 6 | – | 4 |
| Government should guarantee health care |
General population | Mainline Clergy |
All Mainline Protestants |
| Strongly Agree / Favor | 32 | 38 | 29 |
| Agree / Favor | 27 | 29 | 32 |
| combination of the 2 above (i.e. generally supportive) | 59 | 67 | 61 |
| Disagree / Oppose | 20 | 13 | 20 |
| Strongly Disagree / Oppose | 17 | 8 | 14 |
| combination of the 2 above (i.e. generally opposed) | 37 | 21 | 34 |
| Unsure / don't know | 4 | 12 | 5 |
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Although Ray Dubuque enhanced presentation of the chart above, all of the data is from http://www.publicreligion.org/research/published/?id=167 ( and from this PDF file,) | |||
| Change in the numbers of Americans agreeing with the statements : | % in 2001 | % in 2008 | % of change |
| " Religion as a whole is loosing its influence on American life." | 39 | 62 | + 23 |
| " Organized religion should have less influence in this nation." | 22 | 34 | + 12 |
| " Having a baby outside of marriage is morally acceptable." | 45 | 55 | + 10 |
| " Gay relationships are morally acceptable." | 40 | 48 | + 18 |
| " Divorce is morally acceptable." | 59 | 70 | + 11 |
| " Sex between an unmarried man and woman is morally acceptable." | 53 | 61 | + 8 |
| " Stem cell research on human embryos is morally acceptable." | 52 | 62 | + 10 |
| The data above appears to have come from data collected by the Pew Research Center, by way of the New York Times [ http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/other/26blow4_charts.pdf ]. Here's much more from Pew Research: people-press.org/report/312/trends-in-political-values-and-core-attitudes-1987-2007 | |||
Contact ![]() Ray@LiberalsLikeChrist.Org There is much more where this came from at and/or |