Saturday, March 17, 2007
SNOW DEEP; FAITH STRONG!
Via Andrew Bolt, who is assembling an impressive archive of Gore Effect examples, this inspiring story of endurance and faith:
A group of religious leaders started walking across [Massachusetts] Friday to bring attention to global warming ...
The nine-day haul from downtown Northampton to Copley Square in Boston was planned far before forecasts called for a weekend of snow and sleet just a few days before the start of spring.
"It was windy and cold. I was walking on the front of the line and I felt like I was bow of a ship with the wind just coming into my face,” said the Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas of the Grace Episcopal Church in Amherst, where the group warmed up on bowls of lentil and minestrone soup after walking eight miles in deep snow from Northampton to Amherst.
Bullitt-Jonas said the walkers kept their spirits strong by singing “Keep on walking forward, never turning back,” a hymn they had chanted in prayer services before the march to Boston.
The Rev. Andrea Ayvazian of the Haydenville Congregational Church said the snow was so deep, it felt like she was breaking trail.
Yet never did her faith in global warming falter. Keep on walking forward, never turning back ...
(More on these idiots from Bloodthirsty Liberal)