Jim Wallis: Dobson Gets Personal on Global Warming (HuffPost)

[marmar]

Jim Wallis

03.05.2007

Dobson Gets Personal on Global Warming

Once again, the hard-core Religious Right has gone on the attack, orchestrating a new campaign to advance their Far Right political views. In a letter to the chairman of the National Evangelical Association Board, James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Gary Bauer, and their cohorts claim that "The existence of global warming and its implications for mankind is a subject of heated controversy throughout the world." And even more bizarre, there was another report this morning that in his sermon last Sunday, Jerry Falwell claimed the debate over global warming is a tool of Satan being used to distract churches from their primary focus of preaching the gospel.

Falwell, Dobson, and their friends are wrong, and this time their attack shows just how far outside the evangelical mainstream the Religious Right's views have become.

The truth, which almost everyone except them acknowledges, is there is little reasonable doubt left about the threat posed to the earth by climate change. There is an international consensus among scientists, religious leaders, business leaders, and economists that we must act, and act now, to preserve a world for our children. Just a month ago, the leading international network of climate change scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, concluded for the first time that global warming is "unequivocal" and that it is with 90% certainty due to human activity. The New York Times called the report "a bleak and powerful assessment of the future of the planet...." You can read the full report.

But the Religious Right is also now personally targeting the NAE's vice president for governmental affairs, Rich Cizik. They claim that Cizik is "dividing and demoralizing the NAE" by orchestrating a "relentless campaign" opposing global warming. And they end by suggesting that "he be encouraged to resign his position with the NAE." .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/dobson-gets-personal-on-g_b_42656.html

[sarcasmo]

1. Dobson is a Sugar Coated Nut Bar.

[yellowcanine]

5. What do you expect from a guy who has a knock down drag out fight with a weiner dog that he

outweighs by almost 180 pounds?

http://www.geocities.com/cddugan/DobsonsDog.html

[Uncle Joe]

2. If Jesus said "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth,

why are these guys so casual about trashing their inheritance?

Thanks for the thread marmar

Kicked and recommended

[marmar]

4. You bet, Uncle Joe....

Jim Wallis is a very important voice in these times.

[Maat]

3. This just proves what a shill for the this Administration James Dobson is ..

particularly the hardright NeoCons and the Corporatists.