Tell Senators to Oppose Global Warming Tax
- Mar 12, 2009 - 3
Dear Friends:
Back door attempts in Congress to push through a global warming tax are heating up.
It is our understanding that the Democrat Senate leadership is planning to move forward with a cap-and-trade bill, which would drastically limit levels of greenhouse gases that electrical, industrial, and transportation sectors can emit, tax them for what they do emit, and slap them with hefty fines if they exceed those emissions levels.
Such a bill would put the brakes on our already slowed economy, forcing industries and businesses to slash jobs and to pass their taxes onto individuals and families in the form of price increases on commodities and energy. This would make it even more difficult for America to climb out of its current economic troubles. Making this worse, the whole basis for the policy—catastrophic human-induced global warming—is not even settled among scientists, who are growing increasingly skeptical, especially since we have been experiencing a decade-long cooling trend.
With your help, we stopped this type of foolhardy legislation from passing last year. We need your help again.
Christians should take every reasonable step to care for God’s creation. But rushing into environmental policies based on questionable science that will create greater economic hardships on every American, especially the poor, is the wrong approach.
If you agree, please tell your senators to oppose any form of global warming cap-and-trade legislation. You can call them by dialing the Capitol switchboard at 202/224-3121. Or click here to e-mail them a suggested letter or one entirely your own.
Thank you for taking a few minutes from your busy day to make your voice heard in Washington, D.C.
In His Service,
Dr. Richard Land
President
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Southern Baptist Convention
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1 On Mar 25th, 2009, at 11:09am, FMJohnson wrote:
Any remaining sense of regret I may have felt over leaving the Southern Baptist denomination has now been completely put to rest. There is not a shred of evangelical or missiological or salvific purpose to this message or the lobbying effort it represents. It’s nothing but politics.
It doesn’t matter which side of the issue it represents; no denomination should go to this length to effect a political agenda that has no relationship to advancing our faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. I’m shocked that the denomination of Broadus, Manley, and Truett could come to this.
2 On Mar 29th, 2009, at 1:04am, Ivan Delvalle wrote:
Why not tax our breathing air?
and the accasional gas humans release, after all it does contribute to global warming!
3 On Mar 31st, 2009, at 6:59pm, Evan wrote:
“catastrophic human-induced global warming—is not even settled among scientists, who are growing increasingly skeptical, especially since we have been experiencing a decade-long cooling trend.”
What evidence do you have for this? As a biologist, I can’t say I know a single unbiased scientists who believes that humans aren’t having a disturbing effect on the earth.
Why are so many conservative evangelicals so hostile towards measures taken to reduce anthropogenic global warming? As the above comment states, this is pure politics.
I ask again, why are Southern Baptists so opposed to the idea that humans are having an enormous negative impact on the earth? Surely any religious convictions would stir you to act in the opposite direction.