Numerous religious voices have been amplifying the findings from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Democratsâ?? report on enhanced interrogation techniques that are denounced as torture.
The report and religious reaction rehash a debate dating back at least 8 years, when the National Religious Campaign Against Torture began its ongoing denunciation of Bush Administration post 9-11 detention policies of terror suspects. In 2007 an Evangelical Declaration Against Torture, crafted by a group led by liberal Baptist ethicist David Gushee, was endorsed by the National Association of Evangelicals.
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