A group of Southern Baptist leaders said Monday that the denomination has been "too timid" on environmental issues and has a biblical duty to stop global warming.
The declaration was signed by the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, two former presidents and others. The denomination is the largest Protestant group in the United States, with 16.3 million members.
The signers of "A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change" said that current evidence of global warming is "substantial," and that the threat is too grave to wait for perfect knowledge about whether, or how much, people contribute to the problem.

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