David Barton on the Environment, Abortion, and Michael Vick

As we mentioned yesterday, a few episodes of David Barton’s “Building on the American Heritage Series” program are available in the TBN archives, including one in which Barton explains how “social justice” is really just another term of “socialism.”

At one point, the discussion turned to the subject of climate change, a topic on which Barton fancies himself an expert, in which he explained that the Biblical account of creation in the book of Genesis reveals that God placed man above all animals and the Earth. 

But, Barton explained, today environmentalists have reversed God’s order and now place the Earth and animals above man, as proven by the fact that Michael Vick went to prison for dog-fighting but “we don’t send abortionists to jail for killing babies”: