One more time: There are more progressive/secularists who think evangelicals believe in a God-given right to destroy the world than there are evangelicals who actually believe in it.
But I have never seen a liberal say we should skip the whole group completely. Until now, that is.
Seeking support from Evangelicals for climate change legislation is a bit like asking Rush Limbaugh to campaign for Arlen Specter. The attempt is ill-advised. We should not be reframing the debate to make the issue tolerable to Evangelicals. That type of accommodation is the dangerous first step onto a slippery slope, and soon we'll be compromising on teaching Intelligent Design next to or in place of Darwin's "theory."
Um, OK. On the other hand, given that a large majority of the country bends toward Christianity and away from climate change, ignoring their concerns is just going to marginalize climatists further.
For some that's not such a bad thing. For those advocating national concensus on climate change it's a mistake.
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