11 March 2005

This post is not deliberately inflammatory

Let's see if this works. If you don't have an NYTimes.com account and you can't read this article, please leave a comment and I won't post any more NYTimes links.

The above article is about what may be one of the single most important environmental stories of this year: a sea change in the way evangelical Christians--who will control the executive branch of this government for at least the next three years and, depending on how many SCOTUS justices retire, possibly some time beyond--view the environmental movement. In this case we're talking about global warming, but more important we're talking about the platform recently adopted by the National Association for Evangelicals, "For the Health of the Nation: An Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility." This platform, says the Times, allows for "broad-based advocacy on the environment," because, after all, God told us to care for His creation.

Not being an evangelical Christian myself (and thus clearly doomed to an eternity in hell according to most of the EVs I've met), I feel a little weird any time I praise anything they do or say. But their political power is not to be questioned, not at least until the Democrats find and extricate their heads from their arses and find some way regain the leadership, and consequently when they get together and decide to support responsible environmental policies I can't but celebrate.

Hooray for responsible political advocacy! Now let's see a little bit of good Christian humility and tolerance out there!

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