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Social conservatives believe in traditional Morality and social Mores and the desire to preserve these in present day society, often through civil law or regulation. Many social conservatives describe themselves as traditionalists. Social change is generally regarded as suspect, while social values based on tradition are generally regarded as tried, tested and true. It is a view commonly associated with Religious , Militant and Nationalistic conservatives. It is particularly associated with the Christian Right , including Fundamentalist and Evangelical Christianity , and conservative tendencies in the Roman Catholic Church . It should be noted that socially conservative values are not necessarily attached to right-wing fiscal conservatism. Many fiscally left-leaning politicians have embraced socially conservative values, such as PC leadership candidate David Orchard and Christian Heritage Party leader Ron Gray . However, other social conservatives, such as Craig Chandler or Stockwell Day , do embrace Neoconservatism . In modern Canadian politics, social conservatives were largely regarded as abnormal oddities or religious zealots by officials in the Progressive Conservative Party Of Canada . Over the years, many of them felt shunned by a party that was largely led and run by Red Tories for the last half of the twentieth-century. Many eventually made their political home with the Reform Party Of Canada and its forerunner the Social Credit Party Of Canada . Despite Reform leader Preston Manning 's attempts to broaden the support of the Reform movement through Populism , the party was largely dominated by social conservatives. Manning's reluctance to allow his party to wholly embrace socially conservative values contributed to his deposition as leader of the newly minted Canadian Alliance in favour of Stockwell Day . The social conservative movement remained very influential in the Canadian Alliance even after Day's defeat at the hands of Stephen Harper in 2002 . Many have suggested that the new Conservative Party of Canada, led by Harper, is becoming more beholden to socially conservative values in its recent positions against Same-sex Marriage and moderate de-criminalization of Marijuana possession. EXTERNAL LINKS: [http://www.socialconservatives.ca SocialConservatives.ca] [http://www.fotf.ca Focus on the Family Canada] [http://www.familyaction.org Canada Family Action Coalition] |
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