More evangelicals concluding God is green.

Since President Bush’s re-election in 2004, a movement called “creation care,” which asserts that Christians are the stewards of God’s creation, has rapidly been been gathering momentum, said the Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president of government relations for the National Association of Evangelicals, or NAE.

“What is really happening is that American evangelicals are becoming, well, green, if you will,” Cizik said in an interview with MSNBC-TV’s Joe Scarborough.

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The American evangelical community is in the midst of a wrenching shift in thinking on the environment. As recently as this spring, politically influential evangelicals were locked in a showdown over climate change, when 25 conservative evangelical leaders demanded that the NAE fire Cizik for his environmental advocacy.

The association’s refusal — rebuffing such influential conservative figures as James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family; former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer; and Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council — marked a turning point for green evangelicals, emboldening them to take creation care into the political arena.

“This is going to be an issue which evangelicals are going to look at when they cast their ballots,” Cizik said.

“I think it should be on par with all the other issues,” like abortion and same-sex marriage, he said. “When you think about it ... hundreds of millions of people around the globe are already being impacted by climate change.”

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But “why shouldn’t the churches be leading this?” Cizik asked. “Of course they should be, because that’s God’s mandate to us. ... God said in his own word in Genesis 2:15, ‘Care and protect it.’

“And have we been doing that? I don’t think so.”

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rest of their time expressing hate for minorities and gay people, promising to get prayer in schools and for the schools to teach that the earth is 6000 years old. They will get the right wing evangelical vote as usual.

Those are the real Christians.

A lot of people forget that. Although, I don't think he is a literalist.

Evangelical invokes fundamentalism, and that's no good. There is an untapped pool of really decent people of faith that just need a leader.

Religion and protecting the earth are inseparable. A religion that believes that God created the earth and does not place protecting the earth as a priority is unthinkable.