Focus | Tensions over social policy take center stage
Story by Chris Graham
Bob McDonnell led the GOP sweep in the 2009 state races and a six-seat Republican Party pickup in the House of Delegates with his move early in the ’09 election cycle to stake his campaign and by extension the campaigns of Republican candidates across Virginia on the economy and jobs to appeal to Virginia’s sizable independent-voter population.
But the religious right, which according to exit polls made up roughly half of McDonnell’s winning voter coalition, is making sure the governor-elect remembers to dance with the ones that brung him, in a manner of speaking. Read more
Family Forum ready for ‘Unveiling’
The conservative Valley Family Forum is hosting the fifth annual installment of “The Unveiling” where local Republican state legislators unveil and detail their social-conservative agenda for the coming General Assembly session next week. Read more
Rockingham: Program on culture of life presented by Valley Family Forum
Item by Chris Graham
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“Rebuilding a Culture of Life” is the focus of a program being hosted by the Valley Family Forum at Cornerstone Church on Lake Shenandoah east of Harrisonburg Friday night at 7 p.m.
The panel includes Dr. John Seeds, an OB/GYN physician and chairman of the OB/GYN Department at the Medical Center of Virginia, and Johanna Dasteel, who is the senior congressional liaison for the American Life League located in Northern Virginia.
The event is free and open to the public.
For directions, visit the Valley Family Forum web site at www.valleyfamilyforum.org or call 540.438.8966.
Movie with a message
The Top Story by Chris Graham
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It’s not just slasher movies and “American Pie.” I think conservatives have a point that the movies that we see playing at the multiplex every weekend are pushing the envelope quite a bit. Even supposedly family-friendly movies feature language and situations that I don’t know that I feel comfortable exposing to kids, inured as they might be given what they can access on the cable or satellite at home.
Which is why I admire George Escobar for what he’s trying to do. Because every time I hear from a conservative friend about “the liberal media” or what they perceive as the heathenistic Hollywood, my response is something along the lines of, Pick up your mat, dust it off, and dedicate yourself to doing something about it. Read more
The Leader endorses Parshall
Posted by afp on May 30, 2009 · 14 Comments
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