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Interfaith group braves storm in climate change trek
The Boston Globe ^ | March 16, 2007 | Adam Gorlick

Posted on 03/16/2007 7:41:47 PM PDT by Jim Noble

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. --As the world's warmest winter on record drew to an end with a weekend snow storm, a group of religious leaders started walking across the state Friday to bring attention to global warming.

"People have been asking me what happens if it snows," said the Rev. Fred Small of the First Church Unitarian in Littleton. "I tell them: 'we walk.'"

The nine-day haul from downtown Northampton to Copley Square in Boston was planned far before forecasts called for a weekend of snow and sleet just a few days before the start of spring.

"It was windy and cold. I was walking on the front of the line and I felt like I was bow of a ship with the wind just coming into my face," said the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Johns of the Grace Episcopal Church in Amherst, where the group warmed up on bowls of lentil and minestrone soup after walking eight miles in deep snow from Northampton to Amherst...

The Rev. Andrea Ayvazian of the Haydenville Congregational Church said the snow was so deep, it felt like she was breaking trail....

"God has given us this Eden, and our behavior is making a mess of it," said the Rev. Jim Antal, president of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ, the state's largest Protestant denomination...

With most of its members based in the Northeast, it made sense for the group to walk in Massachusetts. About 1,000 clergy members are expected to take some part in the trek, which will include prayer and information sessions along the way before ending with a rally on March 24...

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: goreeffect; heretics; loonies; moonbats
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You can't make this stuff up! Hope nobody got frostbite... Bwahahahaah!
1 posted on 03/16/2007 7:41:52 PM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: Jim Noble
"God has given us this Eden, and our behavior is making a mess of it,"

Yo genius, we got booted out of Eden a long time ago.
2 posted on 03/16/2007 7:44:45 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: Jim Noble
As the world's warmest winter on record drew to an end with a weekend snow storm, a group of religious leaders started walking across the state Friday to bring attention to global warming.

Whatta bunch of maroons.

3 posted on 03/16/2007 7:45:39 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Jim Noble

It amazes me that these people of faith, have no faith in God.

Their faith appears to be in Al Gore.


4 posted on 03/16/2007 7:46:26 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
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To: Jim Noble
"...walking eight miles in deep snow from Northampton to Amherst... "

Idiots!

5 posted on 03/16/2007 7:47:01 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'Chaim!)
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To: Jim Noble
...The nine-day haul from downtown Northampton to Copley Square in Boston

First Church Unitarian in Littleton.
Grace Episcopal Church in Amherst

UMMmmm.. HHHmm....

6 posted on 03/16/2007 7:47:51 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The answers remain available; Wisdom is obtained by asking all the right questions!)
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"People have been asking me what happens if it snows," said the Rev. Fred Small of the First Church Unitarian in Littleton. "I tell them: 'we walk.'"

Undaunted, the intrepid Rev Moron plowed through th snow to protest the warming....

Do these folks have an ounce of self introspection?


7 posted on 03/16/2007 7:56:24 PM PDT by padre35 (I am from the "let's stop eating our own" wing of the Republican Party)
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To: Graybeard58

No they are a bunch of gullible fools


8 posted on 03/16/2007 8:01:38 PM PDT by pennboricua
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To: pennboricua

The walk of fools.


9 posted on 03/16/2007 8:03:11 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Jim Noble

If they are walking in this, they are dead by now.


10 posted on 03/16/2007 8:10:16 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: Jim Noble

Nice night for a walk.... from Weather.com
Right Now for
Northampton, MA

Heavy Snow
23°F
Feels Like
10°F
Updated Mar 16 10:45 p.m. ET

UV Index: 0 Low
Wind: From NNE at 15 mph
gusting to 23 mph
Humidity: 83%
Pressure: 29.98 in.
Dew Point: 19°F
Visibility: 0.1 miles


11 posted on 03/16/2007 8:14:39 PM PDT by moe
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To: Jim Noble

Today in 75 degrees of glorious sunshine, I walked on the beach to call attention to the looming ice age ...


12 posted on 03/16/2007 8:14:46 PM PDT by catpuppy
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To: Jim Noble
"People have been asking me what happens if it snows," said the Rev. Fred Small of the First Church Unitarian in Littleton. "I tell them: 'we walk.'"

Great marketing strategy. Pictures of idiots protesting global warming in a snowstorm.

13 posted on 03/16/2007 8:35:54 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The only good Mullah is a dead Mullah. The only good Mosque is the one that used to be there.)
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To: Jim Noble

Ski hills should hire them to show up, so they can extend their season.


14 posted on 03/16/2007 8:43:25 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Jim Noble

Niether rain, nor sleet, nor snow shall keep the moonbats from their appointed rounds...


15 posted on 03/16/2007 8:52:25 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel ("...Mindless pack of trained Maoist circus seals."-www.iowahwk.typepad.com)
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God has a sense of humor.

Those guys really proved something, didn't they?


16 posted on 03/16/2007 8:57:23 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: padre35; DaveLoneRanger
Undaunted, the intrepid Rev Moron plowed through th snow to protest the warming....

Do these folks have an ounce of self introspection?

Maybe they'll realize what idiots they look like when they're at the hospital suffering from frostbite and the ER people want to know what they were doing out in the storm. "I was protesting global warming". ROTFLOL. Maybe the cold has numbed their brains.

17 posted on 03/16/2007 9:00:48 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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after walking eight miles in deep snow from Northampton to Amherst...

Pardon me I have to giggle.

18 posted on 03/16/2007 9:09:06 PM PDT by TYVets (God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
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To: Jim Noble
off topic

I once read someone describing Amherst, Mass. as a combination of the movies "Children of the Damned & The Stepford Wives.
19 posted on 03/16/2007 10:24:16 PM PDT by kb2614 (Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
It amazes me that these people of faith, have no faith in God.
Bingo - we have a winner!
20 posted on 03/17/2007 7:16:54 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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