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Evangelical Group Still Backs 'Warming' Advocacy
Leaders of the Christian right have called for the National Association of Evangelicals to silence its Washington policy director because of his involvement in the fight against global warming. But the Association – an umbrella group for Christian evangelicals representing 30 million people – has rebuffed the call, insisting that concern for the environment is a legitimate issue for the group. James C. Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family, and Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, were among the Christian conservatives who sent a letter to the Association’s leadership accusing its policy director, Rev. Richard Cizik, of "using the global warming controversy to shift the emphasis away from the great moral issues of our time.”
Those issues were defined as abortion, homosexuality, and teaching young people sexual morality and abstinence, the New York Times reports.
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Cizik has been speaking publicly to evangelicals in favor of the doctrine of "creation care.” In a recent interview, he said the doctrine "is simply our articulation of a biblical doctrine, which is that we are commissioned by God the Almighty to be stewards of the earth.” Despite the letter from Christian leaders, the Association’s board voted unanimously last week to reaffirm the platform adopted three yeas ago, which includes the environment as one of seven policy priorities, according to the Times. Board member Rev. Paul de Vries, president of the New York Divinity School, said: "I am as much against abortion as Jim Dobson and the others, but I want that baby to live in a healthful environment, inside the womb as well as outside the womb.”
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