So they’re only interested in the views of those who go to church, versus those who are part of a non-Christian religion?
Don’t these church-going people that say “no” to increased environmental regs know that God charged us with stewardship of the earth? As long as they have their jobs or don’t need to adjust their lifestyle to be a little more environmentally friendly, rape the earth? What does that say about them? I guess not much – Bush himself said, word for word, “Jobs are more important than the environment.” Look at the great job he’s done with both. NOT.
Did you see the msnbc.com home page, where McCain says, “Democrats will be bad for the economy.” And the Republicans did such a great job these last eight years?

Guess the evangelical Protestants and non-Latino Catholics figure God will take care of everything!! Not to worry, God will fix it. Sure! As long as they don’t have to change anything in their lives, they’d have supported it.
ecl, perhaps the study didn’t include non-Christians because the study was conducted by Calvin College’s Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics.
I, for one, am not voting Republican this election. No way. They have screwed us over for almost 8 years.

It’s a shame, but perhaps in the Bush/McCain economy understandable. The point needs to be made that by adopting strong environmental rules American industry will begin working on the kinds of things we’ll need to ultimately reverse global warming. In other words, in short order those environmental restrictions will be good for the economy, not bad.

Now, I cannot say I agree with this decline in environmental consciousness, but keep in mind, churchgoers, on average, tend to be on the lower end of the economic spectrum—i.e., those the rich CEOs will sacrifice first should any expensive regulations need to be put into place. If a poll found that some other generally-less-affluent group was worrying about their jobs—say, African-Americans or Mexican immigrants—I doubt you all would be so quick to judge.
God bless.

Are you serious? You would give up your jobs, and the security you have, zippo! for enviornmental problems? Like nnmns mentioned there are many things big Industry can change to start helping enviornment problems. Our “big minds” of America should be able to work with this, and new jobs be made, and prices will have to be regulated to fit all incomes. People who can change to High Efficency heating and cooling should do so if it’s time for new heating and cooling, but not all will be able to, and to put the “monkey on peoples backs” to conform to the Big Environmental Push by Churches is ridiculous. Don’t blame any of them for saying no.

Sort of like would you like to save hundreds of dollars a year on gasoline…….by not driving your car?
To present the choice as loss of jobs and higher prices vs being good stewards of the Earth and/or good citizens of the world is just plain silly.
IMO, part of the reason that many Evangelicals are not focused on environmental issues is because they are still focused on trying control the lives of the rest of us. As in reversing Roe v Wade, continued discrimination of lgbt people, and mortgaging our great, great, great grand children’s lives through the cost of continuing to attack and invade other countries.
Peace!

It is much easier and far more fun to tell someone else what they ought to do than it is to realize you need to do something yourself. If that something involves your own sacrifice, then it is even less appealing. So I am not at all surprised that evangelicals are less willing to work toward conservation than, say, tell someone they have no choice about their pregnancy. If that seems extreme – it is. But it is also true. It is easier to tell someone to make a life changing choice than it is to change a few light bulbs, use less plastic bags, or conserve gas. Now ain’t that just sad – sad – sad.