Good News: Social Conservatism is Alive and Well 

A post-election poll shows the conservative movement is not dead yet.

Turns out, the 4 million members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) care about more than the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Eighty-four percent of NRA members don’t want President-elect Barack Obama to expand abortion, a poll by ATI-Zogby International found. And 94 percent want Supreme Court judges to focus on U.S. laws instead of mixing in foreign law. 

Gary Schneeberger, vice president of media and public relations at Focus on the Family, was on hand as the poll results were distributed this week in Washington, D.C.

“We have tended to pigeonhole NRA members as people who only care about gun rights," he said. "What this survey shows is that they care every bit as much as — in many cases, more than — values voters about those core issues of abortion, marriage and who’s going to be on the Supreme Court.”

Kristi Hamrick, spokeswoman with the Campaign for Working Families, said the conservative movement can learn from the poll.

“The pro-family movement has friends out there, and it’s wonderful that the National Rifle Association and its members are among them," she told Family News in Focus. "It’s not our message that needs to change; we need to make friends and work with those who care about our issues.”