"civil stance" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an idiomatic expression that means to take a diplomatic and nonaggressive approach to a contentious situation. For example: In the face of criticism, he maintained a civil stance and calmly explained his actions.
The country is still locked in a near civil war stance.
President Johnson and other Democratic Party leaders, although largely sympathetic to the MFDP's civil rights stance, were dismayed by the negative publicity the group was causing at a time when Johnson wanted media attention focused on his presidential election campaign.
"Those of us that stayed true to the traditional civil rights stance of holding representatives accountable don't have a lot of readjusting to do," he said over breakfast at a diner on Florida Avenue in Washington.
That Brant could even jokingly wish to assassinate the president with the most progressive civil equality stance in our nation's history because of his tax codes is telling.
Still, local and national leaders noted that the organization has been targeted in the past for its civil rights stances – for decades by the Ku Klux Klan and more recently by white supremacist groups and lone-wolf actors.
While Kennedy's pro-labor and civil rights stances appealed to mainstream America, the historical redecoration of the White House, overseen by Jacqueline Kennedy, returned a sense of upper-class elegance to the mansion.
The distinctly low level of Muslim protest against the Rushdie knighthood - here, a leading member of the Muslim Council of Britain said he'd been wrong to campaign for Satanic Verses to be banned - shows that this is a time to assert a free-speech, civil-libertarian stance on religion in the public realm.
Moreover, the show is noted for its progressive era civil rights stances.
A protest in the city centre led to clashes with "Paisleyites"—unionists in sympathy with the anti-civil rights stance of Ian Paisley.
What indirect discussion there was helped bring to national attention the church's policy regarding blacks, but the contrast of Romney's pro-civil rights stance deflected any criticism of him and indirectly benefited the image of the church.
