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NAE rebuffs critics, affirming Cizik and a wider agenda: Caring for the environment, condemning torture

The National Association of Evangelicals has affirmed its stance on caring for the environment—indirectly rebuffing complaints that its vice president for governmental affairs is too engaged in environmental issues—and endorsed a statement condemning torture.

Focus on the Family chair James Dobson and two dozen other evangelical leaders had asked the NAE board to oust Vice President Richard Cizik because of his “relentless campaign” against human-induced global warming.