Digby: Becoming Irrelevant

This is interesting. It looks like some of the evangelicals are not going to be led around by Republican operatives like James Dobson and Gary Bauer anymore, no matter how much they try to throw their weight around.

Rebuffing Christian radio commentator James C. Dobson, the board of directors of the National Association of Evangelicals reaffirmed its position that environmental protection, which it calls "creation care," is an important moral issue.

Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, and two dozen other conservative Christian leaders, including Gary L. Bauer, Tony Perkins and Paul M. Weyrich, sent the board a letter this month denouncing the association's vice president, the Rev. Richard Cizik, for urging attention to global warming.