National Association Of Evangelicals Tells Dobson To Pound Sand

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WASHINGTON — Rebuffing Christian radio commentator James Dobson, the board of directors of the National Association of Evangelicals reaffirmed its position that environmental protection, which it calls “creation care,” is an important moral issue.

Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, and two dozen other conservative Christian leaders, including Gary Bauer, Tony Perkins and Paul Weyrich, sent the board a letter this month denouncing the NAE’s vice president, the Rev. Richard Cizik, for urging attention to global warming.

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The NAE’s president, the Rev. Leith Anderson, said Saturday the board did not respond to the letter during a two-day meeting that ended Friday in Minneapolis. But, he said, the board reaffirmed a 2004 position paper, “For the Health of the Nations,” that outlined seven areas of civic responsibility for evangelicals, including creation care along with religious freedom, nurturing the family, sanctity of life, compassion for the poor, human rights and restraining violence.

On Friday, the NAE’s board approved a 12-page statement on terrorism and torture. Anderson said that Cizik gave a report to the board on his work in Washington as vice president for governmental affairs and that there was no effort to reprimand him. “I think there was a lot of support from me, from the executive committee and from the board for Rich Cizik,” Anderson said.

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[Maestro]

1. Just Dobson and Bauer to the polar bears who

are losing their habitat because of many people's complacency or worse ignorance.

[Pierre.Suave]

2. Now here is something I can agree with

"creation care along with religious freedom, nurturing the family, sanctity of life, compassion for the poor, human rights and restraining violence."

if that was their publicly stated position, and they honestly followed it, AND they refused to support a president that did the exact opposite, I could support them.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Global warming is a fracture point in the evangelical movement.

Until now, Dobson and the rest of the high priests of moral hypocrisy have managed to keep this a solid Republican voting block. They know that a split on this issue could begin to dilute their power.