The kind folks at Wingnut Daily remind us today that our neighbors to the north compete with the United States equally in many areas, including the production of world-class wingnuts. Today’s case in point is Pastor Charles McVety, president of the Canada Christian College.

Pastor McVety has an utterly unique, and completely charming, take on what caused the downfall of Ted Haggard. It wasn’t his gay tryst. It wasn’t his predilection for crystal meth. It wasn’t his hypocrisy. It was his . . . . opposition to global warming.

The Rev. Ted Haggard, the defrocked president of the National Association of Evangelicals led a two-year campaign to subject the evangelical church to the laws of global warming. The introduction of the earth movement has confused the church with neo-pagan teachings. In Romans Chapter 1, God warns us not to place creation over the Creator.

And on the eighth day God created fossil fuels — and the cars that turned them into greenhouse gases — and he saw that this was good.

On the surface, this all seems like harmless activity to ensure clean air and clean water. God does command us to be good stewards of the earth but not subservient to it. Everyone wants to reduce pollution and save cute cuddly animals. Unfortunately, this is not the focus. Instead, the global warming movement seeks to trump all other issues, including spiritual concerns, with threats of catastrophic destruction if we don’t follow its precepts plus reduce CO2 production, the very gas every plant on earth needs to survive.

I’ve always wondered why I can’t get plants to grow. Little did I know it was because they weren’t getting enough carbon dioxide. So, now you know: save a tree, drive an SUV! (Um, not so much.)

But the good pastor doesn’t think that environmentalism just threatens trees, it also threatens our souls:

Nearly two years ago, Rev. Haggard began his earth campaign as he threatened the Republican U.S. Senate, stating that he would turn the evangelicals against them if they refused to ratify global warming laws.

The Republican Senate did not take heed to the threat – therefore, Haggard carried out his plan. By February 2006, Evangelicals Against Climate Change was launched . . .The CNN headline read “Strange Bedfellows,” as evangelicals had joined forces with environmentalists who are well-known for being ungodly and sexually immoral.

Bet you didn’t know that those Sierra Club meetings were just a front for ritual human sacrifice and anal sex parties, didya?

God warns us not to place anything above Him. . . . We cannot subjugate Father God to mother earth. . . . God gave man dominion over the earth, not subjugation under it. . . . The hedonistic cares of this life, including drugs, drink and the earth, must not be our concern.

So there you have it. Every time you turn off a light, the Baby Jesus cries.

(Cross-posted at Outside the Tent.)