Early Peek: New Faith-Based Climate Bill Online Ad
By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country
Here's an early look at a faith-based Web ad promoting the climate change bill in the Senate that's scheduled to be unveiled this afternoon by a coalition of progressive religious groups.
The new "Day Six" campaign includes a website with an online petition and Web ads on the website of Relevant, a magazine for young evangelicals.
It's telling that the ad doesn't make the case for creation care, the idea that humans should be faithful stewards of God's green Earth. Instead, it argues that combating climate change is about protecting the world's most vulnerable people. It's the kind of message designed to appeal to red-staters who are wary of tree-huggers but who care about human suffering.
As Cassandra Carmichael, director of the Washington office of the National Council of Churches, recently told me: "The faith community talks about climate legislation differently than scientists or environmentalists. We frame it in terms of the people impacted, which can bring in legislators who hadn't thought in those terms."
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Who this group is
US News & World Report should look closer into who funded this new website and "initiative" Day Six.
This campaign is a front for the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with close ties to the Obama administration. Its leader is John Podesta, former chief of staff for President Bill Clinton.
How is it a front? Here are the trail of connections:
- Day Six is a project of the blog Faithful America
- Faithful America is itself a project of Faith in Public Life
- Faith in Public Life, as indicated on its http://tinyurl.com/2007TaxReturn , is fully funded by the Center for American Progress (CAP).
People should know that CAP is a group that advocates reproductive rights, gay marriage and other social views considered extreme. What these organizations release is little more than left-wing propaganda, however they dress it up.
"caring about people"
what is sad about this is that all of the discussion about climate change thus far on the "tree hugging" end is about PEOPLE. it's about people living in the developing world, prone to famines and droughts, etc. and it's about people here...set to be underwater on our coasts in a little while...
when did the blue staters take PEOPLE out of the equation. if this were just about "the earth" as an isolated system, then NO ONE would care. there are so few people who care even now.
no, this is not about the "tree-hugging" approach of the liberals. it is the red state's refusal to listen to both sides, even when their lives are on the line.
Please, Donna, consider these facts
Donna speaks for all Prolifers. She respects Ban=Abortion law that says abortion is a sin, punished by excommunication & Hellfire. But Christ told people that when they accept Him, he does something marvelous. He instantly & personally forgives their sins--past, present & future. They're sure to go to Heaven & be with the Saints. I hope that's comforting for Prolife men & women when doctors tell them their conception has a genetic disease, is deformed, or otherwise imperfect. Will they go full term or lovingly let that conception go back to God, as part of his unknown but Perfect Plan? Imagine you have a neighbor, wed to a cruel, abusive man. Everyone knows he beats her & their children. She's pregnant again. Would you be able, in this particular case, to advise her to abort, or divorce or be sterilized? I comment because we live in the Land of the Free. To me, that means the Constitution comes first. Church law has authority over congregations who accept it, but it must never be enforced against all Americans.
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