November 07, 2005


When Wingnut Heads Explode

I love this. Some Christo-Fascists have a new cause. Environmentalism. Well, some of them anyway...

In their long and frustrated efforts pushing Congress to pass legislation on global warming, environmentalists are gaining a new ally.

With increasing vigor, evangelical groups that are part of the base of conservative support for leading Republicans are campaigning for laws that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which scientists have linked with global warming.

In the latest effort, the National Association of Evangelicals, a nonprofit organization that includes 45,000 churches serving 30 million people across the country, is circulating among its leaders the draft of a policy statement that would encourage lawmakers to pass legislation creating mandatory controls for carbon emissions.

Geez, what's next, C-F's on the side of the ACLU? But wait...here's the exploding winger head part...
A major obstacle to any measure that would address global warming is Senator James M. Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican who is chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and an evangelical himself, but a skeptic of climate change caused by human activities.

Mr. Inhofe has led efforts to keep mandatory controls on greenhouse gases out of any emission reduction bill considered by his committee and has called human activities contributing to global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."

"You can always find in Scriptures a passage to misquote for almost anything," Mr. Inhofe said in an interview, dismissing the position of Mr. Cizik's association as "something very strange."

Mr. Inhofe said the vast majority of the nation's evangelical groups would oppose global warming legislation as inconsistent with a conservative agenda that also includes opposition to abortion rights and gay rights. He said the National Evangelical Association had been "led down a liberal path" by environmentalists and others who have convinced the group that issues like poverty and the environment are worth their efforts.

Ha Ha Ha Ha...well, I guess that Dumber-than-a-Steer Inhofe must be convinced that his Hero, Jesus, was exclusively the Messiah of the Wealthy White Guys.
Luke 6:20

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: "Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God."

Or he forgot that particular passage in the book he so assiduously uses to help him win elections by convincing the Sheeple he's a holy rollin' kinda guy.

If this is true, it's going to cause quite a fissure in the GOoPers who are in the camp I think of as "Literal Rapturists" and these folks who are finally coming onboard with some environmental protections. It's interesting that Inhofe is trying to tar the environmentally-aware envangelicals as being "gay friendly". Gee, wonder how that's gonna play with those folks? Not spectacularly well, I'd imagine.

posted by Jo Fish on 11.07.05 at 04:24 PM





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That fact that one can quote Scripture to support just about any view should give you heads up that it's not a very reliable moral guide. And as a science book it is totally worthless. I respect our ancestors. I respect how they tried to understand the world around them. And as a BOOK, the Bible can be a good read. But it is a book, just a book, and it has no more insight than any other of the ancient religous text. I know, people want to believe they and their loved ones will live forever, and bad people will always get punished eventually. If it wasn't for that fact I don't imagine most people would care about the Bible one way or another.

posted by: Ray Robinson on 11.07.05 at 09:42 PM [permalink]



What is in the water in Oklahoma and Texas? Do they really believe that 2000+ of the world's leading scientists are all wrong on global warming?
Oh yeah - when it comes to trashing the environment, can't forget those Alaskan repub legislators, although in their case I believe greed is more of the motivating factor ( Anwar ).

posted by: badgervan on 11.08.05 at 12:51 AM [permalink]



"You can always find in Scriptures a passage to misquote for almost anything," Mr. Inhofe said in an interview, dismissing the position of Mr. Cizik's association as "something very strange."

Wow, talk about showing your hand. I'll remember that when issues like abortion, Iraq War, or gay marraige comes up.

posted by: Yankee in exile on 11.08.05 at 07:19 AM [permalink]



Jo-
Not all evangelical denominations are far-right conservative. The vocal loudmouthed ones are, but not all. Examples wuld be the Evangelical Covenant, or the United Church of Christ (of the recent banned we-accept-anyone ad flap), or the Northern Baptists. They are evangelical in that they believe their mission is to convert others, but they are generally socially liberal. This makes sense because they are most comon in the northeast and upper midwest -- reliably progressive areas. Also note that many of these denominations (Covenant in particular) have scandanavian roots.

posted by: C on 11.09.05 at 07:51 PM [permalink]






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