An organization boasting millions of members has taken a strong stand against the Bush administration’s use of torture and has acknowledged that global warming exists and must be curbed.
Is this some so-called crackpot, pinko, tree-hugging bunch of far-left liberals?
Nope.
The National Association of Evangelicals, which represents 45,000 churches and some 30 million church members has endorsed a statement titled "An Evangelical Declaration Against Torture: Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Terror.”
The statement, in part:
* The United States has crossed “boundarie of what is legally and morally permissible” in treatment of detainees and war prisoners.
* Christians have an obligation to help Americans “regain our moral clarity.”
* Anti-terrorism efforts “must not include measures that violate our own core values."
* “Our moral vision has blurred since 9/11.”
* Condemns the Military Commissions Act, which Bush pushed through Congress last year. The Act “guts habeas corpus and allows testimony obtained from torture.”
Read Associated Press coverage of the complete statement: LINK
The NAE has declared that protecting the environment is a “moral conviction” and supports efforts to curb global warming. Washington Post, 11 March 2007. LINK
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I read your Jeni blog, which was very good, but I also read the first one about torturing terrorists, and I disagree with that one. I don't really believe that any terrorists are being tortured first of all, except for that incident where some guys got carried away, and I believe they were reprimanded. I keep hearing that we are supposed to be torturing people at GitMo, but I've read humpteen million articles about that, and the prisoners there are getting so fat from all the food they request which is being provided to them per their special little rules that half of them are now being treated for diabetes. One article in the American Legion said they pretty much had an average of 12.6 lawyers apiece working for them (at taxpayers expense). They get free medical care, glasses, etc. Do you? I don't. In a nut shell they have it way better than they had it at home, which, if they'd stayed there and not come over here starting shit, they wouldn't be a prisoner in the first place. I don't have a damn BIT of sympathy for them if they ARE being tortured, anyway. The AL article also spelled out the strict rules that they had to follow when interrogating prisoners, and they did not say anything about allowing them to be tortured. They have to let them loose basically if they say they are tired of being questioned. They have strict time limits on how long they can question them. oh, of course they cannot bother anybody during their 23 hours a day of prayer time. They probably get bubble baths, massages, and ice cream on request. I don't even want to know the extremes they want to go to in order to save the ozone layer. Actually I clicked on the link to read the article but it said I had to be a member, and I did not feel like being a member today. I am sure if I joined it I would start getting 300 boring emails a day about news and politics. UGH.
AHA. I have just thought of a good solution to the problem. All the people who are whining about how the military is treating prisoners can go join the military and they can be as sweet to them as they want (if they don't blow them up first). ha ha!
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