Tread lightly on the things of earth

PastorDan has it right about today’s U.S. torture legislation, “a Republican deal on terrorism trials and interrogations [that] would give President Bush wide latitude to interpret standards for prisoner treatment” (CBS News).

What is happening on Capitol Hill today is plainly evil. …
Anyone — anyone — who accommodates torture takes part in evil. That might not make us all equally responsible, but it does make us all guilty.

Yes: Torture is evil. This legislation is evil. Illegal, immoral, evil. There is no excuse for torture under any circumstance. There is no defense before God for accepting it.

For each of us, this is not a Republican/Democrat thing. It’s not a conservative/liberal thing. This is a human thing: are we, or aren’t we?

Unless we turn, all of us now, this spiritual cancer is going to kill us.

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God, help us turn from this evil. God, forgive us for being its host.