45,000-member evangelical group breaks ranks with Bush administration on torture

Rawstory:
The National Association of Evangelicals, representing roughly 45,000 churches across the U.S. endorsed a declaration against torture put together by Evangelicals for Human Rights Tuesday - an organization of 17 evangelical scholars, in a striking break from the Bush Administration's policy.

"Tragically, documented cases of torture and inhumane and cruel behaviour have occurred at various sites in the war on terror, and current law opens procedural loopholes for more to continue," the evangelicals' statement declares. read on...