>Interesting and timely that this would
>come up on my feed
>today.
I added the underlining
>of text most related to
>this post
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http://www.thespectrum.com/story/op...tuality-stewardship-call-bears-ears/86161282/
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>Spirituality, stewardship call for Bears Ears
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>Participants of Faith and the Land,
>Guest Editorial 7:26 p.m. MDT
>June 22, 2016
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>
>In 2009, members of 10 Utah
>faith traditions crafted an Interfaith
>Statement on the spiritual values
>of wild lands.
>
>Our vision: ?We need to preserve
>and provide protective stewardship of
>Utah?s wild lands not only
>for our own spiritual well-being
>and that of people to
>come, but also out of
>respect for the sanctity of
>all things.?
>
>Utah?s people of faith, from Mormons
>to Catholics to Jews to
>Muslims, made clear in these
>?Faith and the Land? conversations
>that they agree with a
>member of Chavurah B?Yachad, Salt
>Lake City?s Reconstructionist Jewish congregation,
>who wrote: ?We are stewards
>of the earth; we must
>preserve its beauty and make
>it an even better place
>for our children and grandchildren.?
>
>
>
An LDS Church member finds that
>?wilderness is a place where
>we can be our best
>selves.?
>
>The Inter-tribal Coalition wove that call
>for stewardship into their proposal
>for a Bears Ears National
>Monument. Five Southwestern tribes seek
>to preserve their sacred lands
>? an act of stewardship
>supported by more than 25
>Native nations and two-thirds of
>Utahns.
>
>This monument would recognize values embodied
>by the Bears Ears landscape
>that sweeps southward from Canyonlands
>National Park across Cedar Mesa
>to the Navajo Nation: ??long-distance
>Southwestern views; pure, stunning quiet;
>and the gift to visitors
>of taking time away from
>the workaday world, slowing down,
>and healing.?
>
>
We do not see such respect
>and restraint in Congressman Rob
>Bishop?s Public Lands Initiative.
>
>In the ?Faith and the Land?
>conversations, we found common ground.
>We discovered that faith unites
>rather than divides in wilderness
>politics. When we presented our
>joint statement to Utah?s elected
>officials, we asked them to
>listen, to be true stewards
>of the public trust, to
>act from our shared understanding
>of common sense and common
>values.
>
>Alas, the Public Lands Initiative draft
>does the opposite. The PLI
>hides unprecedented and destructive proposals
>that open up public lands
>to new fossil fuel development
>and vehicle routes, decreasing protection
>for wildlife and watersheds and
>accelerating carbon pollution and climate
>change.
>
>The short-sighted PLI sees wild lands
>as commodities to be used
>now and used up, with
>no commitment to preserving our
>blessed land for generations to
>come. In contrast, the Bears
>Ears proposal invites generations of
>visitors to find refuge in
>a healing land that deepens
>family bonds and opens us
>spiritually.
>
>President Obama waited for the Utah
>congressional delegation?s ?grand bargain.? But
>they offer only an ill-conceived
>embrace of the fossil fuel
>industry. And, so, for those
>who find spiritual common ground
>in unspoiled country, the choice
>is clear. We must set
>aside the failed PLI. The
>president should proceed with his
>visionary proclamation of Bears Ears
>National Monument.
>
>In doing so, President Obama preserves
>a vast and threatened cultural
>heritage. He acknowledges the extraordinary
>resilience of Native people. And
>he joins with all Americans
>of faith and goodwill in
>standing for healing and wholeness.
>
>
>Stephen Trimble, Chavurah B?Yachad.
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>
Don and Judith Adolphson, The Church
>of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
>Saints.
>
>Jean Keller, St. Catherine of Sienna
>Newman Center.
>
>The Rev. Libby Hunter, Deacon, Cathedral
>Church of St. Mark.
>
>Jay Vestal, Christ United Methodist.
>
>Richard H. Weber, Our Saviour?s Lutheran
>Church.
>
>Brian Martin, Salt Lake Quakers.
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>Dede Carpenter, Community of Grace Presbyterian.
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>
>Joan Gregory, Unitarian Universalists.
>
>Jeri Claspill, United Church of Christ.
>
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Never Bad Mouth a Mormon!
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