The Rev. Dr. George Hunsinger has taken the stage here at Portland's Interfaith Forum on Ethics of Torture and Human Rights.  Dr. Hunsinger is the founder of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and Hazel Thompson McCord Chair of Systematic Theology at Princeton Seminary.

He has been talking about how small the movement against torture was in 2005 and 2006 when he first formed the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.  Churches and other religious groups failed at first, he suggests, to respond to the crisis to scandal exposed by Abu Ghriab.  Now most major religious organizations have spoken out and demanded an end to torture by the U.S. Government and others.      

Dr. Hunsinger believes that the use of torture is one of the most important moral issues of our time - and he is right.  He is urging both political parties to place planks in their platforms rejecting the use of torture.  Click here to learn more.

The work undertaken by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture provides us with an example of how religious communities can make a difference.