Evangelicals Get One Right

This is the perfect example of the fervor of partisan politics overpowering common sense and the common good.

more than 100 leaders will discuss issuing a statement on global warming. The meetings are considered so pivotal that Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, and officials of the Bush administration, who are on opposite sides on how to address global warming, will speak.

The fact that the evangelicals are getting behind environmentalism (finally) is a huge step forward for this cause, which I have always said is very much non-partisan. But the fact that the Right's most powerful chunk had to give the go-ahead in order for this coming together of adversaries is dispicable, because there are no winners when the two sides don't engage each other, only losers. And it's made even more dispicable by the fact that the losers are not contained within America: the entire world loses.