The religious right and I aren't planning to agree on most things any time soon: abortion, gay rights, social responsibility, the Middle East, Jesus, etc. One of the problems with aligning oneself with a political party or a particular point on the political spectrum (Wouldn't it be fun if instead of right and left [I personally like the ones with up and down as well], it was like the visible light spectrum? Centrists would be green. Moderate liberals would be cyan.) is that one finds oneself supporting issues simply because that's where they are without thinking about the issue individually.

One of the most frustrating aspects of this has been the lumping of climate change issues ("it's happening and we're all fucked if we don't stop it" vs. "nuh-uh") among the stances held by the American right and left. However, Mother Jones's blog brought my attention to The Evangelical Climate Initiative, supported by many important American Christian figures. Some of these names I recognize as people I've found consistently irritating. Yet it gives me some hope to see that not every evangelical Christian is game for strong-arming our way into the end of the world as we know it.