The Daily Background
| Evangelical leaders furious one of their own is worried about climate change
by Arlen Parsa
Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson and other conservative Christian leaders are calling for the National Association of Evangelicals to silence or fire an official who has urged evangelicals to take global warming seriously.
Boy, how sad is that sentence? By the way, the organization mention, NAE, is the group Reverend Ted “now completely straight” Haggard used to be the president of. More:
In a letter this week to the board of the NAE, which claims 30 million members, Dobson and his two dozen co-signers said the Rev. Richard Cizik, the NAE’s vice president for government relations, has waged a “relentless campaign” that is “dividing and demoralizing” evangelicals.
Cizik has been a leader in efforts to broaden evangelicals’ political agenda beyond abortion and same-sex marriage. He says Christians have a biblical imperative to protect the environment, which he calls “creation care.”
How much do you want to bet that James Dobson doesn’t give a shit about whether or not evangelicals are involved in “creation care”? There’s nothing in The Bible that says “thou shalt not take care of the environment.” Somehow I think really couldn’t care less one way or the other, and that he simply is doing this to appease his Republican political friends. It’s simplier if they agree with their party 100%, rather than have one or two issues that they disagree upon.
