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UrbScotty

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Wed Apr 1, 2015, 09:36 PM Apr 2015

Climate denial is immoral, says head of US Episcopal church

Climate change is a moral challenge threatening the rights of the world’s poorest people and those who deny it are not using God’s gift of knowledge, says presiding bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

The highest ranking woman in the Anglican communion has said climate denial is a “blind” and immoral position which rejects God’s gift of knowledge.

Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal church and one of the most powerful women in Christianity, said that climate change was a moral imperative akin to that of the civil rights movement. She said it was already a threat to the livelihoods and survival of people in the developing world.

“It is in that sense much like the civil rights movement in this country where we are attending to the rights of all people and the rights of the earth to continue to be a flourishing place,” Bishop Jefferts Schori said in an interview with the Guardian. “It is certainly a moral issue in terms of the impacts on the poorest and most vulnerable around the world already.”


http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/24/climate-change-denial-immoral-says-head-episcopal-church
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Climate denial is immoral, says head of US Episcopal church (Original Post) UrbScotty Apr 2015 OP
My conservative, FOX-addicted family attends an Episcopal church, that recently had a gay wedding. arcane1 Apr 2015 #1
 

arcane1

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1. My conservative, FOX-addicted family attends an Episcopal church, that recently had a gay wedding.
Wed Apr 1, 2015, 09:58 PM
Apr 2015

And now this?

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