Side Bars – R.L. Dabney on Secular Conservatives – Rethinking Public Schools – The Bible and Private Property – The Bible and Possession Laws – Deuteronomy 4:5-9 – Lord Acton Quote – The Bible and Gambling – Closing Exhortation – Our Obligations – The Purpose of Civil Government

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Measure #64
Prohibits Many Present Timber Practices, Imposes More Restrictive Regulations

Result of “Yes” vote:
"Yes" vote adopts restrictions on timber harvest practices, including federal regulation, allows citizen-suit enforcement.

Result of “No” vote:
"No" vote retains current regulations concerning timber harvest practices.

PEAPAC Explanation:
This Measure is a radical attempt to put enormous restrictions on logging in Oregon. We strongly oppose this Measure, and urge a No vote.

PEAPAC Commentary and Recommendation

First, in our reasons to oppose this Measure is the great importance the Bible places on private property rights. (See “The Bible and Private Property” under Measure 56.) This Measure would greatly restrict legitimate uses of one’s own land. Certainly private land owners can and do, at times, exercise poor stewardship over the land entrusted to their stewardship. But in God’s wisdom most land is to be in the hands of a myriad number of private land-owners. Statism seeks an unbiblical control over all land by the civil state, and this Measure would go a long way to that statist goal.

Second, this Measure would, in our opinion, negatively impact our ability to exercise godly dominion over the earth. We do have a stewardship responsibility to the earth (Gen. 1:26; Ps. 8:4-8; Ps. 24:1). That stewardship responsibility does not mean that we cannot log. We find no such prohibition in the Bible. But just as clearly, we are not free to wantonly destroy or fail to protect trees from devastating blights or other adverse conditions. (Deut. 20:19 and 20 provide specific protection for trees in the midst of warfare.) This Measure would prohibit the use of some compounds that are very valuable to healthy tree production, and should thus be opposed for sound Biblical environmentalist reasons.

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