Why should Christians listen to the ECI and not Colson and Dobson?
Hunter: First place, every time we come up with a general health scare there will be people who have a general investment in that field who for years come up with scientific evidence that says this isn’t conclusive. They did this with tobacco. They did this with asbestos. There’s always going to be a skepticism that has kind of a protectionistic attribute to it. I have tremendous respect for Chuck Colson and James Dobson, but I think they’re working off an old agenda. The old agenda is that the only way to approach this issue is to put in more government regulation, and that will hurt business. And I’ve heard the argument that if you hurt business, you hurt the poor. That’s an old paradigm. We are for and you can read this at our website we are for market-based approaches. We believe the economy can actually be stimulated by doing what’s right, rather than suppressed. OW: Example? Hunter: Well, there used to be an issue with fluorocarbons and how they were hurting the ozone. There were
