right freaking about evangelicals freaking about climate change
[This is from a right-wing PR shop.]
From: Audrey Mullen audrey@advocacyink.com
Date: October 24, 2006 11:33:04 AM EDT
Subject: INTERVIEW: CEI scholar explains how Christian evangelicals
came to embrace Leftist enviro/business policies
Competitive Enterprise Institute - http://www.cei.org
To schedule interview, contact Audrey Mullen or Dave Mohel at
703-548-1160
“The attempt to subvert Christian evangelicals into supporting energy-
rationing policies that will consign the world’s poor to perpetual
poverty is being financed by left-wing foundations such as the
Hewlett Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Pew
Foundation and organized by major leftist pressure groups. People
who front for this effort should be ashamed of themselves. They
should also check the factual case against global warming alarmism
presented by the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance.”
– Myron Ebell
Director, Energy and Global Warming Policy
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Bio link: http://www.cei.org/dyn/view_Expert.cfm?Expert=125
http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/index.php
Evangelicals Embrace of Environmental Stewardship Creates Problem for
Bush
“Evangelicals… comprise between 40 to 50 percent of…the Republican
base, and so if the largest single population group in the Republican
coalition were to say, ‘this is important. We want you to take, as
leaders in the Republican party, leadership on climate change, on
clean air, on pure water, on the stewardship of our natural
resources.’ If evangelical Christians were to say that, I daresay
Republicans will listen. This president, George Bush, will have to
listen, the Republicans running for the White House in 2008 will have
to listen…”
- Reverend Richard Cizik, vice president of governmental affairs for
the National Association of Evangelicals, from the film, The Great
Warming.
Around the country, many religious groups, and most notably
evangelical Christians, are taking a stand on the environment.
Observers say the Bush administration could lose significant support
from its conservative religious base if it doesn’t change its stance
on issues like global warming.
In addition to promoting sermons on “creation care” - the idea that
the Bible calls on people to care for God’s earth - evangelical
leaders are urging their congregations to see The Great Warming, a
documentary film that has been highlighted in the Los Angeles Times
and Washington Post.
Narrated by Alanis Morissette and Keanu Reeves, The Great Warming
depicts the threat global warming poses to millions of people,
particularly the world’s children, the poorest and the most
vulnerable. The film also showcases the recent engagement of
religious groups in confronting the enormous challenge of global
warming.
Groups like the Christian Coalition and the National Association of
Evangelicals are also making global warming an issue. Reverend
Richard Cizik, vice president of governmental affairs for the
National Association of Evangelicals, has been pressing politicians
to publicly state their positions on global warming.
Last summer Cizik invited contenders for the U.S. Senate in
Pennsylvania - Democrat Bob Casey, Jr. and incumbent Senator
Republican Rick Santorum - to a forum on climate change. Casey
appeared and endorsed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, Santorum
declined to attend.
The Great Warming is set to open in 34 theaters around the country on
the weekend of November 3. To find out where the film will be
playing, visit www.thegreatwarming.com.
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