Earth day..

H/T AmericanPapist

Press Release from Catholic Vote
CHICAGO – CatholicVote.org says it’s time to use Earth Day to celebrate nature’s greatest gift – human life.

With bus ads starting today in Chicago and next week in San Francisco and Seattle, CatholicVote.org is encouraging Americans to rethink how they celebrate Earth Day, and how we to go about building a culture that respects the environment.

“Our goal is to use Earth Day to get Americans to think more deeply about what it means to truly respect the Earth and creation. Prevailing environmental attitudes too often view humans as the enemy of nature. We believe the human person is God’s greatest creation, and the Earth’s greatest resource. Building up a culture of life is the single most important way to build a culture that respects the environment,” said Brian Burch, President of CatholicVote.org Education Fund.

“The members of CatholicVote.org wanted to bring this balanced Catholic view of the environment to the streets,” said Burch, “and that’s why we’ve advertising on over 50 buses in Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle.”

“Respect for the God’s creation has a long history in Catholic teaching, long before it became popular with our secular culture,” said Burch.

2 comments:

Diane said...

I just don't understand this. (Am I the only one??)

Badger Catholic said...

Hi Diane, I updated the article with the press release(not sure why I didn't originally). Basically environmentalists all believe the myth of overpopulation. CatholicVote is hoping to baptize this almost pagan holiday, Earth Day, with the hopes of dispelling the myth and creating sentiment of true stewardship of the planet. So the image(which alot of people on other blogs have found confusing) is showing a pregnant woman with earth covering her baby because babies(or people) are earths most important resource.