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Religious Leaders Unite to Abolish Torture
June 12, 2006"In a statement to be published in tomorrow's New York Times, religious leaders from across the faith spectrum called for the elimination of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment as part of U.S. policy.
The statement, "Torture is a Moral Issue," proclaims that torture violates the basic dignity of the human person that all religions hold dear. Shepherded by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), the statement is signed by 27 national religious leaders, including Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals; Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, D.C.; Rev. Joseph Lowery, co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and Nobel laureates President Jimmy Carter and Elie Wiesel." [Read more]