TORTURE

From the good people at "Faithful America":

After years of denials and euphemisms, (remember "enhanced interrogation techniques"?), a Bush Administration official finally admitted that the U.S. has tortured prisoners in its custody.

Whatever you call it, the abuse needs to stop.

Sign our letter to President-Elect Obama calling for an executive order banning torture.

Years after initial reports of abuse surfaced, accounts from Guantanamo Bay are still shocking. Susan Crawford, the administration official in charge of reviewing practices at Guantanamo told the Washington Post:

"The techniques they used were all authorized, but the manner in which they applied them was overly aggressive and too persistent. . . . You think of torture, you think of some horrendous physical act done to an individual. This was not any one particular act; this was just a combination of things that had a medical impact on him, that hurt his health. It was abusive and uncalled for. And coercive. Clearly coercive. It was that medical impact that pushed me over the edge" to call it torture.

Clearly, government officials at many levels were involved in authorizing torture. As Crawford states though, "the buck stops at the Oval Office."

That's why we need to make sure signing an executive order to ban torture is a top priority for President-Elect Obama once he takes office.

Tell President-Elect Obama to ban torture.

Torture is not only a violation of what our faiths tell us is the inherent dignity of all people, but it's also ineffective and makes prosecuting dangerous individuals more difficult.

It needs to stop. Now.

Sign the petition.

Thank you for all you do,

Beth, Katie, Dan, Kristin and Jennifer

The Faithful America Team