OR Calls on ECI to Give Back the “Blood Money”
Menlo Park, CA — Operation Rescue has learned that a radical pro-abortion foundation with an agenda for world-wide population control through abortion has given $475,000 to the Evangelical Climate Initiative, an environmental manifesto signed by 85 Evangelical Christian leaders.
The Hewlett Foundation lists the grant to the Environmental Climate Initiative as being made through a third-party group, the National Religious Partnership for the Environment an ecumenical group with leftist leanings that do not reflect the teachings of orthodox Christianity.
“While the evangelical leaders state that they are proud of the evangelical community’s longstanding commitment to the sanctity of human life, their actions have told the world something else,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
“Over 47 million pre-born babies have died from abortion in this nation, but we have never seen these leaders put forth any kind of campaign to save their lives,” said Newman. “These are real baby boys and girls who are dying today, and that should be a more pressing concern to the Church than a hypothetical group of people who may or may not suffer at some undetermined future date based on science on which there is no uniform consensus.”
“But even more troubling is the source of the funding for the ECI. Foundations disperse money to projects that will advance their stated agenda. The Hewlett Foundation has a stated purpose of Environmental activism through population control,” Newman noted.
“In fact, a full one-third of the Hewlett Foundation’s grant budget — almost $33 million dollars — was given to radical pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the Abortion Access Project, to name a few. Why is Hewlett giving $475,000 to the Environmental Climate Initiative if they do not believe this furthers their pro-abortion population control agenda?”
“We believe that it is immoral and unethical for Christian leaders to accept money from a foundation that is so dedicated to an agenda that is antithetical to the basic tenants of Christian teaching on the sanctity of human life,” said Newman.
“Operation Rescue calls on the 85 evangelical signatories of the Evangelical Climate Initiative to give back the money they received from the Hewlett Foundation and reject funding from any foundation that gives money to promote the taking of innocent human life through abortion.”
The Hewlett Foundation has recently changed their web site to remove mention of their grant to the Evangelical Climate Initiative. Operation Rescue archived those pages, and others linking Hewlett to radical abortion groups and have them available online.
View Hewlett Grant to ECI
View Hewlett’s recent grant to IPP and other pro-abortion groups
View Hewlett’s Annual Report on Population Control Grants for 2004
The list of pastors and leaders signing this and therefore connected with the blood money have many well known names and include Jack Hayford a pastor who has instead of using his influence to defend innocent human life in the womb has urinated on antibabykilling advocates in his area for years-
these names can be seen hear:
http://www.christiansandclimate.org/signatories
(perhaps editors can post links to previous Hayford experiences)
The following is a copy of my email to http://www.christiansandclimate.org
Gentlemen,
As one who has taken an active role and studied environmental issues for over 30 years, and who originally became
a chemical engineer with the idea that I could make a difference with regard to improving the environment by working
in the industry, I have a serious problem with churchmen who are jumping on this bandwagon today.
Through my studies I learned that what was called for most to save the environment involved simple, common sense
behavioural changes by the populace in general, and not the slam-dunk of industry called for by religious environmental
fanatics, the mainstream press and science community intelligencia. Unfortunately, it appears that the founders of the
Evangelical Climate Initiative have caught up by the hype and some how feel this is the most critical issue of the day.
Back in 1970, when I was in high school, a number of us students formed an environmental organization, called
SCUM – the Society for the Control of Undesireable Materials. At the time, a friend of mine advised that he felt that the
main problem was that of “mind pollution” as opposed to “environmental pollution”. While I agreed with him, I felt that
the physical environmental issue was much more visible and therefore more immediate. Two decades later my friend was
dead, from the effects of drug abuse –just one form of mind pollution.
Today, in retrospect, I see that our moral environment has become much more polluted and yet few have recognized this
–especially from those in the media, who are actually contributors to the problem. Science can’t solve this problem because
it is outside of their field of expertise. The Churches, whose jurisdiction this falls under, don’t seem to recognize it but
rather have become sidetracked into the physical environment issue, which is not their business! If the Chruches were to
focus on addressing and cleaning up the mind pollution problem, the environmental pollution problem would solve itself.
If you check out the CIA environmental disasters map of the world you will see that there are huge contaminated areas in
other parts of the world –principally the former Soviet Union– the contamination of which far exceeds that of any areas in the
West. The world would get a much bigger bang for the buck by using the resources which are being directed to solving the
so-called “global warming” crisis if they were instead used to clean up the polluted areas I have just described.
Put simply, Churchmen need to shift their concern over solving social/political problems and direct it toward solving the moral
corruption which exists in the world. In this area, it is the “civilized” western countries that have the greatest moral pollution.
You ministers and priests, get back into the pulpets and confessionals and get out of the public square.
Respectfully yours in Christ,
Ron Rosmer, BASc- Chemical
Hinton, Alberta, Canada