Reply #30: Church leaders have been protesting Bush's Iraq War, but they don't

[Judi Lynn]

get coverage, usually. We only hear about them almost by accident!

Here's just one tiny snip I found in a jiff, looking for a link I could toss into this thread:

Religious leaders urge greater opposition to Iraq war
Written by RNS and United Church News reports
Wednesday, 27 September 2006

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In a weeklong series of nationwide protests against the Iraq war, several religious leaders have risked arrest during civil disobedience in an effort to inspire a mass mobilization of people of faith against the war.

The Rev. Joseph Nangle, president of the board of trustees for the United States Catholic Mission Association, and James Winkler, general secretary of the United Methodists' General Board of Church and Society, were arrested last week during protests in front of the White House.
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http://news.ucc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=679&Itemid=54

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If you ponder it for a moment, and really strain, you'll remember that, at various times, you've heard American churches (not the ones which speak in tongues, of course) have spoken out against this crap, and it really has stuck in my mind because the United Methodist Church has made its position clear several times, and it's the same church _{George W. Bush} claims as his own church. He has been spitting in their faces with his policies.

As far as I'm concerned, any excuse to rage against _Bush genocidal policies is a good one.

Thanks for the article, wcepler. Welcome to D.U. :hi: :hi: :hi: