Chuck Colson weighs in on the Kingsnorth Six:

Imagine the media reaction if a prominent American Christian leader condoned vandalism at abortion clinics. Now imagine the reaction if he went beyond condoning vandalism and agreed to appear as a witness for the defense at the trial of those vandals.
Then imagine what would happen if he decided to export his religiously motivated crusade to another country.
Well, that’s exactly what just happened, except the religion wasn’t Christianity — it was environmentalism. . . .
What happened in England is further proof of what author Michael Crichton meant when he called modern environmentalism “one of the most powerful religions in the Western World” — a religion that divides the world between “sinner” or “saved,” the “side of salvation” or the “side of doom.”
As if to confirm Crichton’s point, on the same day the Greenpeace members were acquitted, an English city council voted to impose “hefty fines” on people for using the wrong recycling bins.
So what we have here is an appeal to a “higher law” — made by a U.S. government official no less — calling for an inquisition of sorts, and zealous punishment of even the tiniest infraction.
And the media dares to call Christians “fanatics”?
Reasonable people can disagree about global warming or the role of religion in public life. But there’s no excuse — lawful or otherwise — for double standards. Especially with the newest of all religions, environmentalism.