The Political Climate: an ongoing commentary on the NH Primary and Climate Change

TPC noticed an interesting blog from a leader in South Carolina who looks at the climate issue from an emerging perspective.  Rusty Pritchard, one of the growing number of evengelicals concerned with climate change, is in SC with the “Redeem The Vote” Campaign.  He wrote the following:

“I spoke this morning at a press conference in South Carolina, on the front steps of the Statehouse, about the emerging voice for creation care among evangelicals. Here is a draft of those remarks:

I’m concerned that young people and people of faith get disconnected from the political process because they often fail to see their values reflected in that process. Younger evangelicals in particular are often frustrated with what they see as partisan bickering and deadlock, and they are equally frustrated with what the media portrays as a narrow evangelical political agenda. Evangelicals dislike being pigeonholed as single-issue voters in any political party’s back pocket. They would prefer that candidates reflect their values rather than the other way around.”

The State Newspaper also picked up on this story and wrote about how climate leaders and evangelicals are changing the discourse within the primary in a piece titled “Heaven and Earth (and politics).”

The story noticed that “young evangelicals across South Carolina are changing the way presidential candidates think about climate change and other issues.”

This is just one more example of the important role faith is playing in the climate movement.