3/8/2005
Those Crazy Episcopalian Tree Huggers
KTUU TV (Alaska):
Anchorage, Alaska - The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States has rallied other religious groups to join him in opposing[ed: sic] to the opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.It would be a vast cosmic irony if organized religion is what finally brings down the Bush administration.
Bishop Frank T. Griswold and a variety of religious groups within the Christian and Jewish faiths sent a letter to Congress last week to protect what they called the “land sacred” to the Gwich’in nation. The Gwich’ins have been protesting the opening of ANWR, saying it would affect the migration of the Porcupine caribou herd.
The Episcopal Church has issued several resolutions to protect ANWR, saying it has a special obligation to the Gwich’in, who are 90 percent Episcopalians.
Oops, almost forgot. Why do the Episcopalians hate America?
File under: ANWR.
(Note: according to the KTUU homepage it's 30 degrees in Anchorage right now. Here, in DC it's 33 degrees and snowing. I just find it weird that on a given day in March DC weather is indistinguishable from Alaska.)
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