Nothing Sacred: What We Talk about When We Talk about Torture
Whitt, Clayton
The Humanist, July/August 2009, v69, #4, pp10-15
The article discusses torture as practiced on detainees in U.S. custody in the 21st century. A survey published in April 2009 by the Pew Forum showed that 49 percent of the U.S. public sees torture as sometimes justifiable. The number goes up for both white evangelical Protestants and for Republicans, and down for Democrats. It states that some people find it difficult to separate politics from theology and often move the argument to questions of what constitutes torture to avoid the issue.
Clayton Whitt is on the development staff of the American Humanist Association.
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A14/04-09. Posted August 27, 2009
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