Over at Daily Kos, they have a pretty damning indictment of our soon-to-be Attorney General with regard to the role he played in devising the legal justification for the policies which resulted in torture in Cuba, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Not that any of our opposition really makes any difference, since this President and our one-party system in Congress have shown an incredible willingness to reward those it should be rebuking…
What amazes me most about this whole mess we’ve gotten ourselves into in Washington is the absolute silence of the American Church. It’s one thing to vote for the President because you think he’s stronger on “moral values” (an assertion I question, but that’s besides the point), as long as you’re willing to call him on issues where he and his administration are clearly behaving immorally. But is it too much for Christians to at least have the credibility to oppose the nomination of the person responsible for crafting the legal justification for torture? A justification which led to a policy which said torture was okay as long as you didn’t do any PERMANENT damage (you know, beating someone to the point of death is okay as long as they don’t die)?
I know a lot of Christians don’t take “turn the other cheek” literally, but I think it’s quite clear that Jesus didn’t say “if someone strikes you on the cheek, torture his countrymen.”
