The Green Shepherd - The White House wants churches to advance its climate change agenda.

Weekly Standard ^ | May 3, 2010 | Meghan Clyne

[neverdem]

If the Obama administration has its way, the gospel of climate change will be coming to a pulpit near you. That at least seems to be the dream of the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships—a 25-member group of leaders from across the religious spectrum that is part of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Last month, the council spent a day at the White House briefing senior administration officials on its “final report of recommendations” for improving collaboration between the government and religious organizations. The 164-page document, entitled “A New Era of Partnerships,” takes up the “priority areas” identified by President Obama—Economic Recovery and Domestic Poverty, Fatherhood and Healthy Families, Environment and Climate Change, Global Poverty and Development, and Interreligious Cooperation.

Poverty, families, interreligious co-operation: All pretty standard. But what does an office created to help better provide social services to the needy have to do with climate change?

Apparently, the president’s council envisions the “partnership” between government and religious institutions as a means of spreading the administration’s environmental warnings, rather than just a way to help churches feed the hungry and clothe the poor. Faith-based organizations, the report notes, can take “a prominent leadership role in influencing policy, education, and action in those areas.”

How exactly can the government enlist congregations in the climate-change fight? Step 1: Set up an office at the Environmental Protection Agency “to actualize the potential of faith-based and community groups and their networks across the country toward greening and retrofitting buildings”:...

[Pearls Before Swine]

Government can “guide” the people by guiding the religious organizations.

[JamesA]

Since I’m the Pastor, I really doubt it will be brought up.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Evil.

There’s just no other word for it.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[demkicker]

What happened to the separation of church and state? Just wondering....

[johniegrad]

Good for you. What means do they have at their disposal, apart from the tax laws, to coerce you to do it?

[johniegrad]

What happened to the separation of church and state?

Its boundaries are fluid depending on which party is in power, which protected constituency occupies the church, and how determined a position they take on life.

[Navy Patriot]

So the Obama regime will establish the faith based dogma of anthropogenic global warming by converting the clergy of other religions and having them preach it to the proles.

I have a problem with this, and I suspect the Founders did also.

[cripplecreek]

Typical communist/marxist strategy.

[Navy Patriot]

Since I’m the Pastor, I really doubt it will be brought up.

Consider yourself on "the list".

[AmishDude]

Protests from “Americans United for the Separation of Church and State” in 5...4...3...

[Red_Devil 232]

"... a 25-member group of leaders from across the religious spectrum that is part of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships."

Hmmmm is there a picture or list of these leaders?

[Brad from Tennessee]

The news media’s corrupt “science writers” and “science editors” have been spewing this propaganda for at least 10 years and fewer people believe it each day. But liberals think anyone who goes to church will believe anything.

[Captain Beyond]

Wow so what will it be now? Social Justice(Socialism in disguise) or Climate Justice for these progressives of the cloth?

[Terry Mross]

First, what about separation of church and state? Oh, yeah, that only counts when they want it to.

Second, I don’t consider any pastor on the side of obama a religious leader.

[BlessedBeGod]

Hmmmm is there a picture or list of these leaders?

Members of the Council include:

Judith N. Vredenburgh,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Big Brothers / Big Sisters of America
Philadelphia, PA

Rabbi David N. Saperstein,
Director & Counsel, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and noted church/ state expert
Washington, DC

Dr. Frank S. Page,
President emeritus, Southern Baptist Convention
Taylors, SC

Father Larry J. Snyder,
President, Catholic Charities USA
Alexandria, VA

Rev. Otis Moss, Jr.,
Pastor emeritus, Olivet Institutional Baptist Church
Cleveland, OH

Eboo S. Patel,
Founder & Executive Director, Interfaith Youth Corps
Chicago, IL

Fred Davie,
President, Public / Private Ventures, a secular non-profit intermediary
New York, NY

Dr. William J. Shaw,
President, National Baptist Convention, USA
Philadelphia, PA

Melissa Rogers,
Director, Wake Forest School of Divinity Center for Religion and Public Affairs and expert on church/state issues
Winston-Salem, NC

Pastor Joel C. Hunter,
Senior Pastor, Northland, a Church Distributed
Lakeland, FL

Dr. Arturo Chavez, Ph.D.,
President & CEO, Mexican American Cultural Center
San Antonio, TX

Rev. Jim Wallis,
President & Executive Director, Sojourners
Washington, DC

Bishop Vashti M. McKenzie,
Presiding Bishop, 13th Episcopal District, African Methodist Episcopal Church
Knoxville, TN

Diane Baillargeon,
President & CEO, Seedco, a secular national operating intermediary
New York, NY

Richard Stearns,
President, World Vision
Bellevue, WA

[FrankR]

Are these only "black" churches?

I ask that because heretofore it seems the only churches that have been able to skirt the "tax exemption" requirement of separation of church and state, have been the black churches.

I know at our church the pastor is very skiddish about even mentioning anything about "politics" for fear of the IRS and the tax exemption thing.

The double standard needs to be stopped in America.

[brushcop]

I worship my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the creator not the creation.

[NordP]

Well, if that actually happens....I suggest those IN the churches do something that bHo himself couldn't seem to do....

WALK OUT