re: #323 ShanghaiEd

Freetoken: Absolutely. There are countless examples in history of religious “revivals” coinciding with big, disturbing changes in a culture.

I was wondering, more specifically, why does the Religious Right seem to have been less successful taking on Global Warming, while they’ve made huge mileage from abortion and gay rights?

Global warming isn’t as personal as abortion and gay rights are, IMO.

Abortion? IT KILLS TEH BABIES!1111 (equates unborn fetuses with living babies, always a clincher with the pro-birth crowd)

Gay rights? ABOMINATIONS BEFORE TEH LORD!1111 (and if gays get equal rights, that somehow equates with less rights for Christians)

Both can be used to argue that people are actually under threat - an immediate and personal threat. I’m not sure the same can be said of global warming.