" When Cleaner Air Is a Biblical Obligation"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON - In their long and frustrated efforts pushing Congress to pass legislation on global warming, environmentalists are gaining a new ally.

With increasing vigor, evangelical groups that are part of the base of conservative support for leading Republicans are campaigning for laws that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which scientists have linked with global warming.

In the latest effort, the National Association of Evangelicals, a nonprofit organization that includes 45,000 churches serving 30 million people across the country, is circulating among its leaders the draft of a policy statement that would encourage lawmakers to pass legislation creating mandatory controls for carbon emissions.

Environmentalists rely on empirical evidence as their rationale for Congressional action, and many evangelicals further believe that protecting the planet from human activities that cause global warming is a values issue that fulfills Biblical teachings asking humans to be good stewards of the earth.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1107-07.htm

[RevCheesehead]

1. Holy Environmentalists, Batman!

Ya know, this just might be the marriage that saves us from self-destruction.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Yeah, really *lol*

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Did you catch this gem?

"Mr. Inhofe said the vast majority of the nation's evangelical groups would oppose global warming legislation as inconsistent with a conservative agenda that also includes opposition to abortion rights and gay rights. He said the National Evangelical Association had been "led down a liberal path" by environmentalists and others who have convinced the group that issues like poverty and the environment are worth their efforts."

[RevCheesehead]

5. Well, these are the literallists who read Genesis as

God "giving" the earth to Adam, for him to "have dominion over" the beasties and the good earth... And the woman, too. ;)

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. And somehow they took from that "thou shalt rape everything"

[mike_c]

4. there is a strong correlation between green house gas accumulation...

...and the incidence of homosexuality AND abortion in America during the last several decades. I'm just sayin'.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. *snort*