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October 1-8 Awareness Raising Event On Global Warming For US Interfaith Coalition
In contrast to the retrograde tendencies of a few rarified and tiny but influental factions on the American religious right - including the Institute On Religion And Democracy - that are becoming increasingly marginalized*, the US religious mainstream is rapidly moving into high gear, in aggressive advocacy for mitigating Global Warming. |
In the first week of October, reports Jennifer Riley for the Christian Post:
An inter-religious screening and discussion of educational films about global warming will take place Oct. 1-8 in churches, synagogues, mosques and halls of worship across the nation. The event, called "Spotlight on Global Warming," is organized by Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) and will feature Paramount's An Inconvenient Truth, HBO's Too Hot Not to Handle and the independent documentary Lighten Up.
"Global warming is harming God's creation: first the poor of the world and eventually all of us and all life," said the Rev. Sally G. Bingham, founder of IPL and an Episcopal priest at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.
Faith leaders are said to be gathering hundreds of thousands of their followers to view the films as well as preparing to explain how they came to this issue, the power of the religious response to this issue, and the potential for change through the work of congregations and congregants.
"I have spent my life fighting for civil rights and human rights," said Pastor Gerald L. Durley of Providence Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta. "After I saw The Great Warming and An Inconvenient Truth, I have taken on yet another mission. We are destroying our earth. We can't protect human rights if we aren't here."
*for an example of the more extreme end of Global Warming denialism, see this speech by US Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe that Inhofe gave September 23rd at the 2006 Voter Values Summitt hosted by the Family Research Council in Washington D.C. |
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