Well I did not expect to see Barack Obama here...

[jilln]

Not sure how I got on their mailing list, but I went to the site to see what it was about:

"Restoring Eden and young evangelicals heed the call to direct action on climate change"

The page isn't working well for me so I couldn't see their campaigns, but I'm interested to see if "God's creation" that they want to save includes farmed animals or just wild species. Somehow God is always forgetting he created farmed animals, and the environmental destruction factory farms cause.

Is this something that's known about Obama and I just missed it?

[pepperbear]

1. check this out

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2006/06/obama_on_faith_and_politics_an.html

Obama: On Faith and Politics. And Alan Keyes.
Sen. Barack Obama this morning talks about religion and says Democrats need to better acknowledge the power of faith.

Here's his speech.

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama

Call to Renewal Keynote Address

Washington, DC

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006


Good morning. I appreciate the opportunity to speak here at the Call to Renewal’s Building a Covenant for a New America conference, and I’d like to congratulate you all on the thoughtful presentations you’ve given so far about poverty and justice in America. I think all of us would affirm that caring for the poor finds root in all of our religious traditions – certainly that’s true for my own.


But today I’d like to talk about the connection between religion and politics and perhaps offer some thoughts about how we can sort through some of the often bitter arguments over this issue over the last several years.


I do so because, as you all know, we can affirm the importance of poverty in the Bible and discuss the religious call to environmental stewardship all we want, but it won’t have an impact if we don’t tackle head-on the mutual suspicion that sometimes exists between religious America and secular America.

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[ripple]

2. The site link isn't working at all for me. n/t

[crispini]

3. Not working for me either.

:shrug: