{"id":81,"date":"2007-12-16T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T20:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/2007\/12\/16\/torture-is-a-moral-issue\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T18:04:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T23:04:08","slug":"torture-is-a-moral-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/2007\/12\/16\/torture-is-a-moral-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture Is a Moral Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Said religious leaders from evangelical Christian, mainline Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Roman Catholic and other communities, in an ad published today in the Des Moines Register. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithinpubliclife.org\/content\/press\/2007\/12\/national_religious_military_an.html\">press release<\/a>, the full-page ad was produced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcat.org\/\">National Religious Campaign Against Torture<\/a> in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evangelicalsforhumanrights.org\/\">Evangelicals for Human Rights<\/a> and was signed by 48 prominent figures, including former President Jimmy Carter, former NJ governor Thomas Kean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It reads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Torture violates the basic dignity of the human person that all religions, in their highest ideals, hold dear.<\/li>\n<li>It degrades everyone involved \u2013 policy-makers, perpetrators and victims.<\/li>\n<li>It contradicts our nation&#8217;s most cherished values.<\/li>\n<li>Any policies that permit torture and inhumane treatment are shocking and morally intolerable.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing less is at stake in the torture abuse crisis than the soul of our nation.<\/li>\n<li>What does it signify if torture is condemned in word but allowed in deed?<\/li>\n<li>Let America abolish torture now \u2013 without exceptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Said religious leaders from evangelical Christian, mainline Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Roman Catholic and other communities, in an ad published today in the Des Moines Register. According to a press release, the full-page ad was produced by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture in partnership with Evangelicals for Human Rights and was signed by 48 prominent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[650,1131,1141,2155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-international-law","category-torture","category-us-law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}