Dear Suddenly-Environmentalist Southern Baptists: Fuck You

No. You don't get to spend 40 years accusing environmentalists of being The Source of All Evil in the Universe, then suddenly beg for protection when the pollution washes up in your yard.

From the Courier:

As the BP oil disaster poisons the waters off the states where many of them live, Southern Baptists are issuing their most sweeping call ever for something they have long distrusted -- government regulation of the environment.

And a Louisville seminary dean who helped push through that resolution says the catastrophe has the potential to galvanize conservative evangelicals just like the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.

"In many ways, this ecological catastrophe can provide the exact same awakening for evangelicals," said Russsell Moore, dean of the School of Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and chairman of the resolutions committee at last week's meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando, Fla.

In the resolution, passed overwhelmingly, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, with 16 million members, called on "governing authorities to act ... with undeterred resolve to end this crisis."

First rule for the $20 billion Gulf compensation fund: if you have ever, in your lifetime, expressed opposition to government regulation to protect the environment, you get ... not one fucking dime.

Your self-righteous, anti-government, god-bothering lies undermined 75 years of progress in this country, and now you're reaping the lethal, oily shit you sowed.