Sanders on Liberty U. Speech: ‘Most Evangelicals’ Agree with Me on Global Warming

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"Andrea, the reason I went there is not to convince evangelicals there about my view on abortion rights. I have a 100% lifetime pro-choice record on my view on gay rights and gay marriage. I believe in that very, very strongly. I went to liberty university because I think it is important for a start for politicians to reach out and talk to people who have disagreements with them, but secondly, I think there can be common ground in people coming together in terms of addressing such issues as the collapse of the American middle class and the grotesque level of income inequality we are seeing in America today. When you have had in recent years a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires at the same time as we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth and we got millions of families struggling to put food on the table for their children, that is an issue I believe that we can find common ground from a moral perspective. Children in America should not be going hungry. Many evangelicals, for example, are very concerned about environmental issues and climate change. I believe we can find common ground in saying that we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels into energy efficiency and sustainable energies. Many evangelicals share that goal. So I think at a time when we're living in a society where the people at top has almost all the income and wealth that is being generated, yes, I think we can reach out with people who may disagree with us on women's rights and on gay rights and say let us at least come together on these other issues so that the elderly can retire with the dignity and kids can have enough food on the table."