I said whether or not he thought we were causing climate change, the earth was a gift from God and we shouldn't be dumping our garbage in the oceans and polluting the air. He thought for a moment and then said "well, okay, I can go with that".

Are they actually using government resources and some of the employees they are still actually paying to send that tripe out?

I say this is the TRUTH:
Out of the primordial chaos came the earliest divinities, including Gaia (mother earth).

Gaia created Uranus, the sky, to cover herself. They spawned a bizarre menagerie of gods and monsters, including the Hecatonchires, monsters with 50 heads and a hundred hands, and the Cyclopes, the "wheel-eyed," later forgers of Zeus's thunderbolts.

Next came the gods known as the Titans, 6 sons and 6 daughters. Uranus, despising his monstrous children, imprisoned them in Tartarus, the earth's bowels.

Enraged, Gaia made an enormous sickle and gave it to her youngest son, Cronus, with instructions. When next Uranus appeared to copulate with Gaia, Cronus sprang out and hacked off his father's genitals! Where Uranus's blood and naughty bits fell, there sprang forth more monsters, the Giants and Furies.

From the sea foam churned up by the the holy testicles came the goddess Aphrodite. Later, Cronus fathered the next generation of gods, Zeus and the Olympians. And, boy, were they dysfunctional!
(from: https://www.livescience.com/11316-top-10-intelligent-designs-creation-myths.html)