Yup.  The group founded by Pat Robertson has a new man-in-charge, and guess what?  He actually seems like a pretty reasonable guy.

The Carpetbagger gives the scoop:

His name is Dr. Joel C. Hunter. He pastors an interdenominational church in Orlando, Fla., and he sounds like a — moderate.

Well, at least on some issues. Associated Baptist Press, a news service run by moderate Baptists, noted that Hunter has taken the lead on urging conservative Christians to take global warming more seriously. Notes ABP:

Hunter is familiar to many evangelicals and others as the face of a campaign by several evangelical groups to combat global warming. Earlier this year, Hunter appeared in commercials for the campaign, in which he appealed to fellow evangelicals to combat climate change as part of the scriptural command to care for creation.

Furthermore, Hunter has self-published a book titled Right Wing, Wrong Bird: Why the Tactics of the Religious Right Won’t Fly With Most Conservative Christians.

ABP describes the book like this:

In it, he laments conservative Christianity’s overt identification with the Republican Party in recent years, and says, among other things, "There ought to be more than just gay marriage and pro-life issues because the Bible is concerned with all of life…. We need to do everything we can to relieve poverty, to heal the sick, and to protect the earth."

A podcast on the church site contains 40 questions about religion and politics. One of them is, "Is it possible to be a believing evangelical and vote Democratic?" Hunter replies in part, "It’s not only possible, at times it’s advisable on many issues."

Nice.