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1 posted on 03/12/2007 4:20:07 PM PDT by Sopater

The statement, "An Evangelical Declaration Against Torture: Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Terror," was drafted by 17 evangelical scholars, writers and activists who call themselves Evangelicals for Human Rights.

Here's a link to that report: An Evangelical Declaration Against Torture: Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Terror (18 page PDF file)

3 posted on 03/12/2007 4:23:45 PM PDT by Sopater (All of the evidence supports the truth!)

I think that Bush is a meanie...

(note:this is sarcasm)

5 posted on 03/12/2007 4:27:24 PM PDT by woofie

I guess they believe force conversions to Islam and beheading is acceptable...

6 posted on 03/12/2007 4:30:18 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)

Sounds like the National Council of [Liberal, Apostate] Churches, not the National Association of Evangelicals.

8 posted on 03/12/2007 4:35:21 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)

What torture? Ours or there's....

11 posted on 03/12/2007 4:42:24 PM PDT by svcw (There is no plan B.)

Wasn't this the group Ted Haggard was president of before he resigned?

13 posted on 03/12/2007 4:49:23 PM PDT by asburygrad

The National Association of Evangelicals has endorsed an anti-torture statement saying the United States has crossed "boundaries of what is legally and morally permissible" in its treatment of detainees and war prisoners in the fight against terror.

These people gave themselves away right off the bat. If they were objecting to our conduct of war on purely Christian grounds, as I'm sure they would like us to believe, then there is no reason why they would include the "legally" permissible part of their statement. That part of the statement is purely political, focusing on secular law rather than Christian belief and, unless they are the National Association of Evangelical Lawyers, they have no business making such assertions, at least not under the color of a religious organization.

14 posted on 03/12/2007 4:54:08 PM PDT by fr_freak

"National Association of Evangelicals" is Ted Haggard's outfit. Gay prostitutes, drug addicts, etc..

15 posted on 03/12/2007 4:59:39 PM PDT by iowamark

Oh brother. Much better that we don't get valuable information and save thousands of lives.

16 posted on 03/12/2007 5:10:56 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons' pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)

To: Sopater; All

They are doing what the left always does.

Get a small core group with some relation to a social identity and then put that identity into an organization name ("Clerics", "Nuns", "Blacks", "Hispanics", "Gays", "Catholics of Conscience", etc. etc, etc.) as a way to try to (1)hijack the name of that idenitity (2) attach that identity to a leftist political agenda, and (3)impose that political agenda as orthodox thinking among all people who identify themselves with that social identity.

It is classic Marxist group thought control.

What you are seeing now with this "Evangelical" group is the first step - creating acceptance of the group as representing "Evangelicals", together with the second step - attaching the "Evangelical" label to this particular cause.

In time you will see attempts to force other Evangelical groups into silence if they oppose the view of this group. That is what they did with "Blacks" (your not really black unless you are somewhere on the left) and every other identity group they have formed.

What really amazes me is how readily many Evangelicals do not see how their faith is being hijacked for causes that are being promoted by "one world government" movements.

20 posted on 03/12/2007 6:07:03 PM PDT by Wuli

To: Sopater; All

This group is an abuse of the word, Evangelical.

Don't be mislead.

21 posted on 03/13/2007 5:29:59 AM PDT by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter for President, 2008!!)

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