Ministers help kick off new phase of anti-SUV campaign

This is just outrageous. I will never understand these kind of people. Most people now buying these vehicles actually need them. No matter what they do, SUVs will always be around.  

Give me a break! gesssss

Ministers help kick off new phase of anti-SUV campaign
What Would Jesus Drive?

There are more scenic places for a demonstration -- the Lincoln Memorial, say, or the lawn of the Capitol. But the Lynnway, an endless stretch of dreary light industry and heavy commerce just north of Boston, was perfect for our purposes. Not because of the greyhound racing track, not because of the discount furniture outlets. Because of the auto dealers, crowded with shiny SUVs.

Just married ... to the pump.
Photo: Alan Wagner.
Every city in North America has a few of these automiles, where one lot butts up against the next, all crowded with this year's models. These lots are where Americans make the most environmentally significant decisions of their lives (except, perhaps, for how many kids to have). And that's why a hundred of us were there this past Saturday morning, in the pouring rain -- to remind our neighbors that these private decisions have a public dimension. That in this case, how they spent their money was not absolutely their own business. That "Hey hey, ho ho, SUVs have got to go."

The demonstration, endorsed by a dozen local groups and organized by Debra Hall and Marci Gerulis of the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, was the first of its kind in the nation, an attempt to take anti-SUV bumper-sticker and ticket campaigns to a new level. It also marked a new level of religious involvement in the cause -- at least four ministers from various denominations were on hand, including Bob Massie, an Episcopal priest who also heads CERES, Fred Small, director of Religious Witness for the Earth, and Dan Smith, a Congregational minister who won the prize for the day's best poster: "What Would Jesus Drive?"


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Hey, I do too. I just say "That's gay."  

That's just homosexual*.

*I use that term to describe something I don't like.  No offense to anyone.