Torture is a Moral Issue Sign the Statement of Conscience
Religious Institutions Who Have Endorsed

Religious Institutions that have endorsed COI
Letters from National Faith Groups to President Obama


Religious Institutions that have endorsed
the
Call for a Commission of Inquiry:

  • 57th Street Meeting of Friends (Chicago, IL)
  • Alexandrian Gnostic Church (Jersey City, NJ)
  • All Saints Church (Pasadena, CA)
  • Ann Arbor Friends Meeting (Ann Arbor, MI)
  • Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends, Stony Run (Baltimore, MD)
  • Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Interim Meeting
  • Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America
  • Birmingham Friends Meeting (Birmingham, AL)
  • Canterbury House, Episcopal Campus Ministry (Ann Arbor, MI)
  • Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
  • Christian Muslim Consultative Group of Southern California
  • Clerics of St. Viator (Arlington Heights, IL)
  • Congregational United Church of Christ (Iowa City, IA)
  • Druid Hills United Methodist Church (Atlanta, GA)
  • Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
  • Episcopal Church, General Convention
  • Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, Peace and Justice Program Group
  • First Congregational Church of Berkeley (Berkeley CA)
  • First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto (Palo Alto, CA)
  • First Unitarian Church (Cincinnati,OH)
  • First Unitarian Society of Denver, Social Action Council (Denver, CO)
  • First Universalist Church (Minneapolis, MN)
  • Friends Committee on National Legislation
  • Friends of Jesus Church (Washington, DC)
  • Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Islamic Shura Council
  • Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) Council for Social Justice
  • Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
  • Liberty & Justice Task Force of Jefferson Unitarian Church (Golden, CO)
  • Morningside Friends Meeting (New York, NY)
  • National Religious Campaign Against Torture
  • Nauset Interfaith Association (Cape Cod, MA)
  • New England Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
  • New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
  • North Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Minute on the Abolition of Torture
  • Northern California/Nevada Conference, UCC, Overview Board for Justice and Witness Ministries
  • Or Shalom Jewish Community (San Francisco, CA)
  • Pax Christi Metro New York (Metro NY)
  • Peace Village, Inc. (OR, ID, MT, WA)
  • Pennsylvania Council of Churches, Commission on Public Witness (Harrisburg, PA)
  • Progressive Christians Uniting (Los Angeles, CA)
  • River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation Social Justice Council (Bethesda, MD)
  • Riverside Church Mission and Social Justice Commission, New York, NY
  • Santa Fe Friends Meeting (Santa Fe, NM)
  • Sisters of St. Francis of Dubuque, IA
  • Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Society of Jesus, New York Province
  • St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church (Studio City, CA)
  • Strawberry Creek Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Berkeley, CA)
  • Unitarian Universalist Association
  • Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
  • Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, General Assembly
  • Unitarian Universalist Church of Fargo-Moorhead (Fargo, ND)
  • Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis (OR)
  • Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Santa Cruz County (CA)
  • Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Poconos (Stroudsburg, PA)
  • Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
  • Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting(Urbana, IL)
  • Washington Association of Churches
  • West Valley Unitarian Universalist Church (Glendale, AZ)
  • Wisconsin Council of Churches

Letters from National Faith Groups to President Obama
  

Presbyterian Church USA
Letter from Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of PCUSA, to President Obama calling for a Commission of Inquiry.

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee/Unitarian Universalist Association
Joint letter to President Obama from Charlie Clements (UUSC) and Rev. William Sinkford (UUA) calling for a Commission of Inquiry, April 28, 2009. For pdf version, click here.