Evangelizing for the animals

She spent years as an outspoken antiabortion activist, and that cause remains dear to her. But these days, Karen Swallow Prior has a new passion: animal welfare.

She wasn't sure, at first, that advocating for God's four-legged creatures would go over well on the campus of Liberty University, a fundamentalist Baptist institution founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell.

Among the Liberty faculty -- and conservative evangelicals in general -- the animal-rights movement is often disdained as a secular, liberal cause.

But activists have been working with increasing intensity to shed that image. They're lecturing in Quaker meetinghouses and Episcopal churches, setting up websites that post Scripture alongside recipes for vegan soup -- and using biblical language to promote political initiatives, such as laws mandating bigger cages for pregnant pigs.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-animals6nov06,0,5175477.story?coll=la-home-nation

It guess they all give her the same thrill

sounds like a good thing to me.

What a putz she really is. How do these people know Adam and Eve only ate fruits and veggies anyway? Also, if God made all these fruits and veggies why didn't he honor Cain's alter of the harvest and reward Able for his slaughtered animal sacrifice? Did they eat the meat later on? These fundies sure can't think deeply.

Just a general question to their belief that Adam and Eve were vegetarians before the "fall".

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