torture

22-year-old Trevor Case has been sitting in a Nebraska jail since late last month for allegedly waterboarding his girlfriend. According to police reports, after accusing Danielle Stallworth of…

Her Mormon faith made it impossible for her to torture.

National Religious Campaign Against Torture renews calls for investigation.

Justice Department attorney David Margolis rejected the recommendations of the investigation into the actions of two Bush-era lawyers claiming that the infamous ‘torture memo’ simply constituted ‘poor judgment.’ But John Yoo’s arguments are eerily reminiscent of the Nuremberg Defense and both men still face the judgment of international law and history.

Those on the religious right and left not only diverge wildly on everything from abortion to torture, but in their composition and distribution as well.

Conservative Gary Bauer’s recent attempt to justify American torture of prisoners using Just War Theory is found wanting.

In a recent Op-Ed, Elders member Jimmy Carter noted that religion is used to excuse slavery, forced prostitution, genital mutilation, and more.

Religious bloggers push the media to go beyond “soundbite theology” to challenging questions about torture and America.

In light of a recent finding that evangelical Christians are more likely, statistically, to support the use of torture, a scholar proposes an approach to nonviolence based on the teaching of Christianity’s first theologian.

The results of a new Pew survey indicate that going to church increases the likelihood that people will support torture, especially if they are white evangelical Protestants. This is not good news.