I never heard of Haggard either, but there's a lot of meat in the article.
For a Frightmare, read the Earth Charter at this link:
http://www.earthcharterusa.org/earth_charter.html
It starts out fairly benign, and becomes your worst commie nightmare by the end. Look for its plans for the military. Try a Google search of Earth Charter, or Earth Charter + Gorbachev.
This document was handed to my college student daughter in political science class. Earth Charter backers plan to peddle it through schools and churches.
Tonight I was belatedly reading the election week edition of Newsweek, "The Politics of Jesus" (Sex vs. Social Justice: Evangelicals at a Crossroads). If I can make the leap that Newsweek runs things election week that will help liberals, it seems clear that liberals are trying to triangulate religion any way they can. An article, "A New Social Gospel," by former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, speaks of the global focus of the new evangelicalism, and its solidarity with the poor and pursuit of the common good.
My Methodist congregation, with hopes of expanding its membership, went through Rick Warren's Purpose Driven program. The sermons changed from Biblically based lessons to social justice themes. Socially relevant "hymns" are being substituted for scripture-based hymnal songs. Saturday night, the church held a viewing of "An Inconvenient Truth," because as Christians we shouldn't ruin our earth (or something). Membership, by the way, is down by about 25%.
We're being co-opted, folks. Christians are an obvious target because of their influence in the 2000 and 2004 outcomes. Say the right buzzwords and a few trusting souls will listen, or get mad and stay home. Hardly matters which.
If this news had broken a couple of days after the election it would not have been blown up to the degree it was just prior to the election by the 'agenda media'.
Thanks for your post.
Gorbachev gave up on the Earth Charter. Instead, he cheerleads Russia's massive military buildup by Putin.