{"id":13549,"date":"2014-07-30T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=13549"},"modified":"2014-07-30T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:49:51","slug":"evangelicals-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=13549","title":{"rendered":"Evangelicals and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ambien 10 Mg Price Nearly a decade ago, I wrote a profile<\/a> of Richard Cizik for Audubon<\/em> magazine. He was, at the time, a prominent lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals<\/a>\u00a0and a member of good standing among social and political conservatives. But Cizik’s views on a number of hot-button issues were evolving. In 2008 he was forced to resign<\/a>, or as he later put it, fired<\/a>\u00a0for remarks he made on NPR:<\/p>\n

In a broad-ranging conversation about my work to educate my fellow evangelicals about the impacts of climate change, I told Terry Gross, the host of NPR\u2019s \u201cFresh Air,\u201d that I could support \u201ccivil unions\u201d for gays and lesbians and that government funding of contraception was morally acceptable as a way to avoid abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I wrote in my Audubon<\/em> piece, Cizik had come to view global warming as an urgent, moral issue. History would judge the evangelical community, he believed, just as it had on another defining issue:<\/p>\n

https://castlehomecomfort.com/air-cleaners/ \u201cIt was to our eternal . . . \u201d he says, struggling to find the right words, \u201cit was to our discredit that evangelicals didn’t join [Dr. Martin Luther] King in the civil rights movement. It was forever a black mark on us that we weren’t part of that. And I dare say\u2014I could be wrong, I’m not a prophet\u2014in a few years people will say, \u2018Were the evangelicals engaged in the environmental issue?’ And again, it will be to our discredit if we are not.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://www.balimadetour.com/about/ I think it’s still too soon to say<\/a>, even nine years after he told me this, if the conservative evangelical community has fully embraced climate change as a morally compelling issue. But that day appears to be coming<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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