Torture opponent welcomes comments by SBC leader

[Crabtownboy]

Interesting comments by Richard Land. I do not know much about him but twice recently he has made comments that I agree with.

Richard Land, president and CEO of the SBC Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said in interview comments quoted by Religion News Service and Baptist Press there are no circumstances under which it is permissible for United States officials to use torture in interrogations, even if they believe a prisoner has information with implications for national security.

Land said he views "waterboarding," a technique endorsed during the Bush administration by Vice President Dick Cheney, as torture and could not in good conscience support its use to interrogate a suspected terrorist.

http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4064&Itemid=53

 

[LadyEagle]

This was started in the Politics forum here:

http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?t=59338

Closing this duplicate thread.

LE