It's hard to be a bigot if you're dead

I just got this email update from our good friends at the religious right wacko group "Focus on the Family":

Evangelicals Wrangle Over Global-Warming Alarmism
from staff reports

Should evangelicals be worried about global warming? Some point to the Christian’s duty to take better care of the world, but others worry the issue could eclipse more basic evangelical values like the right to life and the sanctity of marriage.

Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals told Family News in Focus that global warming deserves attention.

“I’m not saying it’s the pre-eminent issue, the most important issue – no, it’s probably not,” Cizik said. “But does it deserve consideration? Most assuredly.”

But others warn evangelicals to beware of an ulterior motive.

“We’re observing a very strong effort by liberal environmentalists to use that sound motivation as a wedge,” said E. Calvin Beisner of Knox Theological Seminary.

Yes, eclipse would be the right word. It's hard to bash women and gays when the sun has destroyed the entire planet. But hey, at least we could take comfort in the fact that our 6 billion brethren didn't give their lives in vain - at least the gays can't marry.