 AP Photo At age 60, Richard Cizik is used to being on the outs. He spent 28 years working at the National Association of Evangelicals, eventually becoming the lobbying group’s vice president for governmental affairs. But after taking a strong—and controversial—stand on climate change and then saying in an interview that he supported same-sex civil unions, Cizik says he was told to pack up his office and leave the premises. TAGGED: Evangelicals, green technology, climate change, abortion, contraceptionRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| On January 24, 2004, in the frigid moonscape of an Arctic winter, wildlife biologist Steven Amstrup rode in a helicopter flying low over the ice. Using an infrared heat detector, he hoped to find polar bears in their dens.... more ›› |
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