Montana resident Tim Sundles was recently sentenced by a federal court to six days in jail and two years of probation for attempting to kill wolves with poisoned meat. That effort went awry when the pesticide-laced meatballs were eaten a neighbor's pet dogs.

Sundles could properly be charged with negligence. Instead, he was prosecuted under the Endangered Species Act, the federal law through which wolves have been reintroduced to the Mountain States.

Wildlife ecologist Dr. Charles F. Kay observes that ?environmentalists are using wolf recovery and the Endangered Species Act to run ranchers out of the country and to thwart multiple use of public lands....? Renee Askins of the eco-radical Wolf Recovery Fund admits as much: "[W]olf recovery is not about wolves, [Instead] it is about control of the West."

The Endangered Species Act is the product of a worldview inverting that of Genesis: Rather than being God's special creation, human beings are just another species within a democratic biosphere ruled by the high priests of eco-radicalism.

Let us stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.