Statement against Torture

Here's how I'm contacting the 5 people requested.
-Maggie

Your Help is Needed to Reach 50,000 Endorsements of the Statement of Conscience of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture by January 15, 2007

Dear Friends,
You are one of the more than ten thousand people of faith who has endorsed “Torture is a Moral Issue” - the Statement of Conscience of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT). We deeply appreciate your commitment to ending U.S.-sponsored torture. A copy of the text of the “Statement of Conscience” is below.

We are asking for your help. It would be a powerful witness if NRCAT reached 50,000 endorsers of the Statement of Conscience by January 15, 2007. Please contact at least five people you know to ask them to endorse - family members, friends, and members of your congregation.

Give them a copy of "Torture is a Moral Issue" and ask them to endorse. They can do so online at www.nrcat.org/statement.aspx. You can either give them the copy of this letter or print out an individual form at http://www.nrcat.org/documents/statement_individual_endorser.pdf.

If you wish to take the petition version to your congregation or other organization to which you belong, please go to http://www.nrcat.org/documents/petition_style_form.doc.

Thank you for joining us in the campaign to end U.S.-sponsored torture - without exception.

Sincerely,

Jeanne E. Herrick-Stare, Esq., Chair, NRCAT Coordinating Committee
Rev. Richard Killmer, Senior Staff, NRCAT

The Statement of Conscience
National Religious Campaign Against Torture
TORTURE IS A MORAL ISSUE

Torture violates the basic dignity of the human person that all religions, in their highest ideals, hold dear. It degrades everyone involved - policy-makers, perpetrators and victims. It contradicts our nation’s most cherished values. Any policies that permit torture and inhumane treatment are shocking and morally intolerable.

Nothing less is at stake in the torture abuse crisis than the soul of our nation. What does it signify if torture is condemned in word but allowed in deed? Let America abolish torture now-without exceptions.