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Baptist group fights Texas coal plants
AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/10/07 | Matt Curry - ap

Posted on 02/10/2007 8:59:23 PM PST by NormsRevenge

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Suzii Paynter, director of the Texas Christian Life Commission, poses in Dallas, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)


1 posted on 02/10/2007 8:59:24 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

We have a cleaner enviroment and higher standards than most countries.

She really should do her whining in India and China.


2 posted on 02/10/2007 9:02:36 PM PST by Kimmers
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To: NormsRevenge
Paynter said Texas Baptists' involvement stems from concern over how dirty air is affecting the health of church members.

Obviously clueless about coal-fired generation and emission standards.

3 posted on 02/10/2007 9:07:15 PM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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Folks should only preach about that of which they have some rudimentary knowledge, at least.


4 posted on 02/10/2007 9:10:44 PM PST by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment rights--buy another gun today.)
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To: NormsRevenge

So (certain) Baptists are okay if folks freeze. Got it. Now no whining when it happens.


5 posted on 02/10/2007 9:13:55 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: NormsRevenge

BGCT is the liberal side of the Southern Baptists. The conservatives are the SBT - Southern Baptists of Texas.


6 posted on 02/10/2007 9:14:14 PM PST by PAR35
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To: NormsRevenge
"The Baptist General Convention of Texas is a moderate congregation.."

Liberal organization

7 posted on 02/10/2007 9:14:50 PM PST by flying Elvis ("In...War, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst" Clausewitz.)
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To: NormsRevenge

unbelievable that the Baptist Church in Texas of all places could be taken over by leftists.


8 posted on 02/10/2007 9:15:00 PM PST by balch3
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Suzii Paynter, director of the commission

Suzii? With two i's? Does she draw little hearts over them?

9 posted on 02/10/2007 9:18:09 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (L'Chaim!)
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To: DTogo

In the 70s, I started up coal fired plants in Chile and worked on them in China. No emissions controls AT ALL. Not even electrostatic precipitators to capture the flyash. Our plants are very clean with particulate, SO2, NOx, water and solid waste disposal controls. If she wants to see dirty, go look at China. I doubt they are installing basic controls, even today.


10 posted on 02/10/2007 9:19:35 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: balch3

The Southern Baptists split from the liberal Baptists due to the unbiblical stand the libs take. The libs are calling themselves mainstream Baptists. Each Southern Baptist church is independent, but cooperate in many ways.


11 posted on 02/10/2007 9:26:15 PM PST by Paperpusher
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To: NormsRevenge

Fine.

Build nuclear power plants instead. I wonder how that would fare??


12 posted on 02/10/2007 9:30:21 PM PST by kb2614 (Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
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Indeed. It might do the TXU some PR good to be pro-active and maybe take a busload or two on a site visit to a TX plant, and maybe give a ppt presentation to the congregation on modern pollution controls. Otherwise they'll cluelessly continue to spout this enviro-whacko misinformation.


13 posted on 02/10/2007 9:35:58 PM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: flying Elvis

A dying liberal organization, to be exact.


14 posted on 02/10/2007 9:36:57 PM PST by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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Mary Darden, a Baptist deacon and president of Keep Waco Green

Now that is really something, "Keep Waco Green" and Baptist Deaconess in the same sentence..

I find it strange that the article used the male form of a Church office even though a female is holding it.


15 posted on 02/10/2007 9:40:15 PM PST by padre35 (I am from the "let's stop eating our own" wing of the Republican Party)
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To: NormsRevenge

This group of Baptists in Texas like to characterize themselves as moderates when, in fact, they are liberals in theology and earth issues!


16 posted on 02/10/2007 9:43:40 PM PST by Doctor Don
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I respect liberals more than I do moderates, for liberals are at the very least honest enough to own up to what they really are.


17 posted on 02/10/2007 9:48:10 PM PST by flying Elvis ("In...War, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst" Clausewitz.)
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To: Kimmers
Here is the easy way to debunk/diffuse this 'controversy'. Go to the parking lot of one of these 'Baptist' churches involved in the this 'religious' coalition. Video all of the sports cars and SUVs which get crappy, crappy mileage and then ask this closeted lesbian 'Baptist' leader to comment on it. Ask which of the 'churches' she represented are using solar panels to get themselves 'off the grid' and slowing 'global warming.'

This is just feckless propaganda and as shallow as the soundbites which are issued to media flacks to slavishly report them as though they are important and worthy of discussion. There is nothing religious about this evironmental radicalism. Its just socialism wearing a frock or a habit.

18 posted on 02/10/2007 9:50:53 PM PST by bpjam (Never Give Up, Never Surrender (Unless James Baker gives you permission))
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Yes, continue to be beholden to the godless communists like Chavez and the heathen Islamic oil producers. Keep putting money into the hands of those who fund the attacks on Christians around the World.

America has 500 years worth of coal in the ground.
We should use it as an interim source to help break the oil cartels hold. "Not in my neighborhood' is a lame excuse when the power IS used in your neighborhood.


19 posted on 02/10/2007 10:11:03 PM PST by wodinoneeye
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To: NormsRevenge

If they want to protest the plants, they should take it all the way and demand that all 2.3 million of their members stop using electricity. That would more than remove the need for the extra plants.


20 posted on 02/10/2007 10:16:28 PM PST by Colorado Doug
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