Torture

I am a passionate participant in the growing anti-torture movement, led by David Gushee and others. I recently blogged about a disturbing report, indicating that Southern White Evangelicals are more likely to support torture than Americans in general. So a number of us are making this request for your expression of support. I hope you’ll take a moment and respond … and I hope you’ll ask the religious leaders in your life if they have take a stand yet. This tide must be turned.
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Our nation, our allies, and our enemies now know that the United States has committed torture against foreign detainees. And regardless of the motivation for doing so, torture is a nonnegotiable moral issue that we need to end once and for all.
That’s why, last June, I was one of more than 200 military, security, and faith leaders who signed a nonpartisan Declaration of Principles calling on the President to issue an Executive Order to ban torture. Since then, thousands of citizens have joined us, and I hope that you’ll consider doing so, too.
You can read a *summary of the effort* in this recent God’s Politics *sign the Declaration* here.
I hope that you’ll sign on, and that you’ll in turn send this message to your friends and colleagues. Thank you for taking this stand with me.
Sign the Declaration!
*TORTURE IS UN-AMERICAN, IMMORAL, AND BAD FOR SECURITY.
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