Southern Baptists in the lead on the march backwards

From the Baptist Standard [my writhing is in green ...]

Global warming debate generates heat

By Marv Knox

Texas Baptist Standard

SAN ANTONIO - Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) messengers generated some heat during their annual meeting as they debated the government's responsibility to address global warming.

They also stood by the SBC resolution committee's decision not to address how many people actually populate Southern Baptist churches.

Otherwise, they quickly dispatched seven of eight proposed resolutions June 13.

The global warming resolution did not generate debate on its basic points: global temperatures have risen for decades, [even if they hadn't the basic argument would be unaffected] "scientific evidence does not support computer models of catastrophic human-induced global warming" [this, and evolution is a theory with no good evidence] and major steps to reduce greenhouse gases would unfairly impact the world's poorest people.[all those climate scientists, demographers and insurance policy writers simply don't know what they are talking about]

But messengers disagreed over the SBC resolutions committee's call for the government to do something about climate change.

The committee's proposal encouraged "continued government funding to find definitive answers on the issue of human-induced global warming that are based on empirical facts and are free of ideology and partisanship."[a WTF moment ... how would they know non-partisanship when they saw it?] It also supported "economically responsible government initiatives and funding to locate and implement viable energy alternatives" that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Bob Carpenter of Cedar Street Baptist Church in Holt, Mich., proposed deleting the two sections of the resolution that called for government action.

"For 70 years, beginning with the Franklin Roosevelt administration, we've endured expansion of government," Carpenter said, calling government "part of the cause of the problem rather than the solution."

The government cannot provide simple solutions to problems, he said, adding, "hundreds of millions of tax dollars already are being spent" by the government on global warming. He said that private enterprise is a founding principle of the country. "We solve problems ... when government stays out of the way."