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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 7, 2008

It seems as if each month we learn a little more about the extent to which the Bush administration has institutionalized the practice of torture ? which is forbidden by our Constitution, criminalized by our laws, and unsupportable by anybody who understands Christian ethics.

Last week a federal court compelled the release of a March 2003 memo written by former administration legal counsel John C. Yoo. That memo made the astonishing claim that it is permissible for US interrogators not only to torture but also to maim detainees.

Leaving detainees crippled, blind, disfigured, or otherwise permanently mangled is legally defensible, Yoo insists, as long as such acts are committed under presidential authority.

On another occasion, Yoo said it was permissible for the president to order the sexual torture of an innocent child.

A nation that countenances such conduct risks not only the enmity of men, but also the judgment of God.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.