Religious leaders criticize Bush on environment

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http://statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050219/NEWS/502190343/1001

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February 19, 2005

Wow! Across the US, more than 1K religious leaders are
upset at the moron's environmental policies. Cool. Hope
they can enlist even more, plus all of their congreants.

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"The Clear Skies (initiative) is a lie because the administration's proposals for air pollution allow coal-burning facilities to keep polluting the atmosphere," said retired Rev. Paul LaRue, who is a member of the Jason Lee United Methodist Church in Salem. "The same could be said for water pollution. The administration favors industry, it favors corporations, and it favors rich people who continue to exploit the earth at the expense of all the rest of us."

A recent poll from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that these local religious leaders are not alone.

By a 2-to-1 margin, survey respondents back strong regulations to protect the environment even though they might cost jobs or result in higher prices. The poll also found that in setting national priorities, 53 percent of those asked place the environment above other issues including abortion and same-sex marriage.

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"There are some issues that all Christians and Hindus and Buddhists, Jews and Muslims all cherish in terms of God's relationship in the world," the Salem resident said.

[Goldeneye]

1. If anyone has power with Bush,

other than rove, cheney, rumsfeld...its these guys. This is very good news. Now if they can just get mentioned in a few big time papers...

[Coastie for Truth]

2. Faith based voters were always Progressives

when I was a kid. This Faith Based Conservatives is a product of Reagan and Bush I and Bush II.

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4. You got it !that's why progressive agenda is ambiguous it should be called

Compromised agenda.

[Coastie for Truth]

14. By progressive I mean MLK Jr and the Berrigans

and Jim Wallis and Michael Lerner and Jesse Jackson and abolition and suffrage and racial justice and economic justice and peace.

I do not consider Comstock or Falwell or Roberts or Dobson to be real ministers.

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10. Someone from Associated Press *helped* with the article, so

would it help if we all e-mailed AP and said Huh?

WHY isn't this your product?

WHY is this printed in some po-dunk newspaper?

[MasonJar]

3. I'm not sure. Bush refused to meet with the ministers of the main-

stream religions, including the Methodist ministers. (He is allegedly a Methodist.) Epicurean is more like it or maybe Narcissus or Satan.

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7. Satan

:evilgrin:

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5. It's good to see this.

I wish for more of the same.

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9. I hope there is more, all churches go anti-Republican

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11. Ok by me.

[ailsagirl]

6. I heard that those awaiting "The Rapture" want to destroy

the environment because only then will Jesus come down and swoop them up to heaven, where they will watch the rest of us die from plagues of frogs, locusts, and the pox. That's what I heard on Bernie Ward's "God Talk" a few weeks ago.

I'm glad to know SOME religious leaders still consider themselves "stewards of the land."

Thanks for posting this!

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8. You're welcome :)

I hope all of the local churches here read it.

The last sentence on the article said that
someone from Associated Press helped with the
article.

Who knows, maybe the Corporate-Controlled Media
will realize that they need this planet intact,
not just Dems.

[ailsagirl]

13. I hope so

Who knows, maybe the Corporate-Controlled Media will realize that they need this planet intact, not just Dems.

I fervently hope so-- it seems like a no-brainer but then...

:dunce:

[orpupilofnature57]

12. It's called the"Dominion theocracy" Robert Kennedy Jr, talks about it alot