rev. jason poling

Gulf Oil Spill and an Evangelical Crisis of Conscience

Some conservative Christians, from Sarah Palin to Ken Blackwell of the Family Research Council, have seen the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a chance to tar Barack Obama with a legacy like the one Hurricane Katrina left for George W. Bush. But as the slick spreads and the toll mounts and hopes for a quick solution fade, a number of other Christian conservatives, notably evangelicals who have in the past taken a largely laissez-faire approach to environmental protection, are seeing the disaster as a moral challenge to their own free-market dogmatism and are even repenting of ...

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