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NEWS ABOUT: family values

family values stories: 11 news summaries

 Calif. Pol Quits 
 After Boast of 
 Spanking Sex 
 With Lobbyist 

One utility company lobbyist was a 'bad girl,' assemblyman leered over hot mike

Sep 10, 09 2:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some lobbyists will apparently do anything for work. A California assemblyman and family-values crusader has quit after boasting about spanking sex with a utility company lobbyist and "hot" sex with another. He went into graphic detail over a broadcast mike he didn't realize was live, reports the Los Angeles ... More »

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California • Sacramento • sex • lobbyist • family values • lobbyists • politician • Yorba Linda • assemblyman • marital infidelity

Scandal Dogs Family Values Republicans

Sanford, Ensign aren't the only 1994 GOP frosh with marital woes

Jul 2, 09 8:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Apart from the sex scandals, what do John Ensign and Mark Sanford have in common? They’re both members of the much-hyped GOP House class of 1994, Politico observes. Those Republican revolutionaries swept into Washington promising a focus on family values, but 14 years later, no fewer than a dozen... More »

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Newt Gingrich • sex scandal • family values • John Ensign • Mark Sanford • Republicans • Pat Schroeder

(Newser) - Lurking behind the mainstream film industry is a low-budget, high-return business poised to break through: the world of Christian filmmaking, NPR reports. Fireproof, a tale of marital woes and redemption, was the highest-grossing independent feature of 2008—a fact trumpeted at a Christian film festival in San Antonio last... More »

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entertainment • Hollywood • Christianity • family values • evangelicals • morality • Christian film • Christian movies

Teen Sex on ABC Family Sparks Debate

Parents complain Secret Life situations are too risqué for kids

Feb 1, 09 7:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Edgier programming  by the Disney-owned ABC Family channel may have boosted ratings and advertising, but many parents are angry about the changes. New series, particularly The Secret Life of the American Teenager, have sparked debate about whether the offerings are truly family programming, reports the Los Angeles Times. Parents concerned... More »

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programming • family values • teen sex • network television • ABC Family • The Secret Life of the American Teenager

 Gay Marriage Vote 
 Highlights Calif. Divides 

Urban, coastal areas generally oppose Prop. 8; less-populated inland areas support it

Oct 22, 08 4:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - California’s looming referendum on gay marriage is highlighting the cultural divide between coastal and inland regions, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Polls show 37% of voters in coastal counties supported Proposition 8—which would amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage—in a June poll, while 54% in... More »

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California • gay marriage • culture • voters • family values • culture wars • Proposition 8

ANALYSIS

 Palin Politics, Family Inseparable 

Alaska Gov. defends, depends on her family in all aspects of her career

Sep 7, 08 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin slides seamlessly from perfectly coiffed GOP attack dog to doting hockey mom —so just what is life in the Palin clan like? “Sarah Barracuda” has always intertwined her family and her political life, the Washington Post reports, from her working-mom, Wal-Mart-shopper image to her husband’s... More »

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family values • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin

OPINION

How Did Dems Inherit
Ozzie & Harriet Mantle?

Evangelical love for Palin family highlights dramatic switch in 'family values'

Sep 5, 08 5:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - The enthusiastic evangelical reaction to a working mother with an unwed pregnant teenage daughter on the GOP ticket highlights the dramatically changing face of conservative Christian America and could spell trouble for the Dems, Hanna Rosin writes in Slate. Evangelicals now actually score worse than the rest of America on... More »

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religious right • abortion • Christians • family values • evangelicals • conservatism • Sarah Palin

analysis

 6 Ways the GOP
 Can Get Back on Its Feet 

Insiders speak as GOP prepares for a losing November

May 15, 08 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Six months before an election in which some estimate Republicans could lose 20 seats in the House and five in the Senate, insiders tell Politico how the GOP can pick itself up:
  • Write some policy. “It’s critical that our candidates have a very clear set of principles,
... More »

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Mitt Romney • terrorism • sex scandal • GOP • Mitch McConnell • Republican Party • John Boehner • family values • Republican candidate • Election 2008 • George W. Bush

GOP's Strength Frays at
Local Level

Broke, scandal-ridden state parties aren't ready to help McCain

Mar 24, 08 3:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Their national candidate needs support, but the Republican Party's state chapters are in no position to lend John McCain a hand, Politico reports. From New York to Alaska, local organizations are rife with dissension, debt, and scandal. "We are clearly rebuilding," says the Michigan GOP chairman. More »

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John McCain • California • Alaska • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Arkansas • Ted Stevens • Kansas • campaign funds • family values • Kathleen Sebelius • Mark Parkinson

Rudy the Dragon Slayer? Not Quite

New York examines Giuliani's claims to be New York's savior

Dec 8, 07 9:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani's campaign pitch presents him as nothing less than the savior of New York, the only man tough enough to tame the big bad city. Not surprisingly, not all New Yorkers buy it, writes Chris Smith of New York. “It’s insulting to every New Yorker that... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • New York City • family values • Ed Koch

Cruising Senator
Has Been Tough
on Gay Rights

Blogs gleefully tote
up Craig’s anti-gay, ‘family values’ record 

Aug 28, 07 1:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Idaho's outed senator has long wielded his political power against gay rights, and gay advocates, having heard whispers for years, have been keeping track. Larry Craig, whose arrest for cruising in a Minneapolis airport bathroom was made public yesterday, opposes civil unions, gays in the military, and the extension of... More »

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Mitt Romney • gay marriage • hate crime • Larry Craig • hypocrisy • family values • political scandal

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