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Respected leaders and citizens like you are joining this campaign to call on the President to issue an Executive Order ending torture and cruelty without exception. Click here to read about the Campaign to Ban Torture in the news. Sign the Declaration today. Help us build an anti-torture majority!
No Torture. No Exceptions.
Who We Are
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.
Click here to read the Evangelical Declaration Against Torture
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"Western war has always distinguished between what is permitted and what is prohibited, between just and criminal means of warfare. The renunciation of perhaps effective but criminal means—killing of innocents, torture, extortion, and so on—was possible on the basis of faith in a just divine rule of the world. War was always something like an appeal to divine judgment to which both sides were willing to bow. Only when Christian faith in God is lost do people feel compelled to make use of all means—even criminal—to force victory of their cause."
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
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