The search is over for the great progressive wedge issue! It's the environment, Stupid!
Church leaders have been talking with God again, and it turns out that God is Green!
Get the Hell out of here, you say! No it's true!
"We affirm that God-given dominion is a sacred responsibility to steward the earth and not a license to abuse the creation of which we are a part," said the statement, which has been distributed to 50,000 member churches. "Because clean air, pure water, and adequate resources are crucial to public health and civic order, government has an obligation to protect its citizens from the effects of environmental degradation."
From now on, take a Bible with you into the Frame Shop. If you want to advocate an issue that's basicially common sense, see if you can find a basis for it in the New Testiment.
Could we get universal health care if we work that "love thy neighbor" deal hard enough?.
That's our progresssive problem. We subscribe to common sense, so we think everyone else does too.
God is into common sense! Who would have guessed?
Polling has found a strengthening consensus among evangelicals for strict environmental rules, even if they cost jobs and higher prices, said John C. Green, director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. In 2000, about 45 percent of evangelicals supported strict environmental regulations, according to Green's polling. That jumped to 52 percent last year.
"It has changed slowly, but it has changed," Green said. "There is now a lot of ferment out there."
I can't believe the guy's name is Green. Too funny.