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U.S. Evangelicals Warm to Climate Change

Posted on: Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 21:05 CDT

A small but vocal minority of U.S. evangelical Christians has joined the movement against global warming, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Wooed by British religious leaders and U.S. environmental groups, they could be the vanguard of a reconciliation between environmentalists and born-again Christians, the newspaper said.

British evangelicals warmed to the climate change issue earlier than their U.S. counterparts and began reaching out to environmental groups and American Christians, the newspaper said.

Meanwhile, global warming activists in the United States began to realize they would have limited political success unless they could win over the Christian right.

The Christian environmentalist movement boasts some prominent converts such as Joel C. Hunter, senior pastor of the Northland Church, a giant congregation outside Orlando. He was courted and won over to the climate change cause by the Evangelical Environmental Network.

There is still stiff opposition to environmentalism among many evangelicals, who either believe global warming is not caused by humans or place a higher priority on such matters as opposition to abortion and gay marriage.

Source: United Press International

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