No Torture. No Exceptions.

Our two-year-old organization began as an effort to offer an evangelical response to the shocking practice of torture in the “war on terror.” We believe that by God’s grace we have been successful in pricking the conscience of the evangelical community on this issue and in weakening the trend toward any acceptance of torture. However, on this issue our work will not be done until torture has as much moral legitimacy in Christian circles as slavery, rape, or genocide—that is, none at all.  Today we continue to address this issue through research, writing, organizing, and advocacy efforts, within the evangelical community (especially through work with the National Association of Evangelicals), in partnership with other religious groups, and in collegial efforts with the broader human rights community in the United States and abroad. Our goal continues to be the clear and unequivocal abolition of torture by anyone, anywhere, beginning with our own beloved nation.

 If God so leads and resources permit, Evangelicals for Human Rights will incrementally expand its human rights agenda to address other issues in days and years to come.  Martin Luther King was right. Justice is a “seamless garment.” It is impossible to care about a tear in one part of the moral fabric without caring about all such tears. So far our agenda has been torture. But the moral concerns of those who lead this effort extend far beyond.