Religious Leaders Fight Energy Plan

Religious leaders are lobbying the Senate to either alter or reject the President’s energy plan as they begin to debate it this week. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Karen Kelly has this report:

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Religious leaders are lobbying the Senate to either alter or reject the president’s energy plan as they begin to debate it this week. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Karen Kelly reports:

More than 12 hundred Christian and Jewish leaders, representing mainstream denominations, signed a letter to the Senate expressing concern about the President’s

energy plan. Specifically, the leaders are calling for greater emphasis on energy conservation. They oppose drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve. And they’d like to see more money invested in renewable energy sources. Paul Gorman is the executive director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment.

“This is a moral and religious issue. People of faith should think about that, should study it and should look at how we conduct our own lives. What’s at stake here is the future of God’s creation.”

The religious leaders are asking senators to view the energy policy not just from an economic perspective, but from a moral one. For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I’m Karen Kelly.