Senator Inhofe, the environment, evangelicals: You gotta see this!

[Bozita]

Excuse me, but this guy's unfuckingbelievable.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/news/ci_3190911

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Inhofe has led efforts to keep mandatory controls on greenhouse gases out of any emission reduction bill considered by his committee, and he has called human activities contributing to global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."

"You can always find in scriptures a passage to misquote for almost anything," Inhofe said in an interview, dismissing the position of Cizik's association as "something very strange."

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 such as poverty and the environment are worth their efforts.

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[niyad]

1. and yet, the people of ok vote for this idiot

[RoyGBiv]

3. Not all of us ...

Just too many of us. :(

[Carolab]

2. Self delete eom

[FreedomAngel82]

7. I thought with Akaka

he was the number one liberal in the Senate? :shrug:

[Bozita]

8. Inhofe's a Republican from Oklahoma, IIRC

[Carolab]

9. Yes, sorry. It was Inhouye.

Not Inhofe. Corrected/deleted.

Inhouye, Akaka and Landrieu voted against Cantwell's amendment.

[rodeodance]

4. "increasingly evangelical groups that are part of the base of conservative

We know this is going on--but it is real scary to read this.


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 throughout 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 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. ......

[rodeodance]

5. strange bedfellows-how it will play out is yet undetermined.

..... Environmentalists rely on empirical evidence as their rationale for congressional action, and many evangelicals further believe 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.

"Genesis 2:15," said Richard Cizik, the association's vice president for governmental affairs, citing a passage that serves as the justification for the effort: "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it."

"We believe that we have a rightful responsibility for what the Bible itself challenges," Cizik said. "Working the land and caring for it go hand in hand. That's why I think, and say unapologetically, that we ought to be able to bring to the debate a new voice."

By themselves, environmental groups have made scant progress on global warming legislation in Congress, beyond a nonbinding Senate resolution last summer that recommends a program of mandatory controls on gases that may contribute to global warming.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Oh brother

So I guess all that talk from Jesus about helping the poor was just blabber eh? And if you don't take care of the enviornment than where will you live?

[kenny blankenship]

10. Scientific probabilities are different Senator!

"You can always find in scriptures a passage to misquote for almost anything," Inhofe said in an interview,

That's nice and it might be relevant EXCEPT THAT we're not talking about some bullshit "scripture"--scribbled, twenty times translated, interpolated, and redacted Aramaic mutterings which can be interpreted to mean anything (or its opposite) about mythical beings and their whimsical likes and dislikes in human mores. We're talking about PHYSICAL subjects with quantifiable properties and causal relationships that can be discerned between them. We're talking about consequences for continued carbon dumping that are now ALREADY happening in this life to this world, which is the only world we got. If you don't care about the rest of us and you have only contempt for this world Senator, have the decency to suck on a .45 and punt yourself into the "next" one.