Evangelicals, climate change and sex

Here is part of a New York Times article entitled "Evangelical’s Focus on Climate Draws Fire of Christian Right":

Leaders of several conservative Christian groups have sent a letter urging the National Association of Evangelicals to force its policy director in Washington to stop speaking out on global warming.

The conservative leaders say they are not convinced that global warming is human-induced or that human intervention can prevent it. And they accuse the director, the Rev. Richard Cizik, the association’s vice president for government affairs, of diverting the evangelical movement from what they deem more important issues, like abortion and homosexuality.

The letter underlines a struggle between established conservative Christian leaders, whose priority has long been sexual morality, and challengers who are pushing to expand the evangelical movement’s agenda to include issues like climate change and human rights.

“We have observed,” the letter says, “that Cizik and others are using the global warming controversy to shift the emphasis away from the great moral issues of our time.”

Those issues, the signers say, are a need to campaign against abortion and same-sex marriage and to promote “the teaching of sexual abstinence and morality to our children.”

Sigh.

Okay. Let's say the fundies are able to prevail and manage to make the world's population sexually pure (ha!) and eliminate abortion. Then we need to have a planet to be pure ON. Why do these people think morality is only about sex? What about the immorality of destroying the planet? What about the climate refugees that are already being produced? What about the deaths from drought and famine? What about the very real possibility that life on this planet as we know it will be devastatingly disrupted and damaged if not utterly ended? Is the extinction of the human race not a moral issue?