Doing right by the Gap on the environment and agriculture
■"Evangelical Leaders Swing Influence Behind Effort to Combat Global Warming," by Laurie Goodman, New York Times, 10 March 2005, pulled from web.■"An End to Days of High Cotton? GOP Constituents Caught in Battle Over Subsidies," by Dan Morgan, Washington Post, 8 March 2005, pulled off web.
Those evangelicals are getting greener by the minute, and given past successes in raising Washington's awareness on foreign policy issues such as religious persecution, violence in Sudan, AIDS in Africa and sex trafficking (all biggies in the Gap), this development is not to be scoffed at.
Evangelicals are already getting more and more behind the reduction of ag subsidies, believing America's stand on that is immoral-and they're right. Cotton growers say we should pay them for depressed world prices, and I say that's nuts. Taxpayers are supposed to pay people to continue producing goods that are uneconomical? I thought that was the Soviet Union's gig!