The Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment member Dr. David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University, spoke in the Rectors Forum at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on April 21, 2013.
Gushee was on the Task Force for being an ethicist, and more specifically a Christian ethicist. His role provided a moral voice for the bipartisan group that, for two years, studied every aspect of U.S. detainee policy that they had access to since the first attack on U.S. soil during the Clinton administration. As Gushee explains in the video, "the panel concluded without dissent that arguments that our nation did not engage in torture, and that much of what occurred should be defined as something less than torture, were something not credible."
“The Sacredness of Life and U.S.-Sponsored Torture”
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Gushee stated that "we need dogged activists, researchers, investigative reporters and people who shine the light of truth into the darkest corners of any society and tell what they discover there.” Help shine your light by emailing your senators today. A sample email can be found here.
For more information:
- Full report of the Task Force on Detainee Treatment can be found here.
- NRCAT's press release found here.
- NRCAT's two page summary of the report can be found here.
- "Toward Ensuring an End to U.S.-Sponsored Torture" by Rev. Richard L. Killmer, Huffington Post, April 16, 2013.
