NRCAT video on U.S. torture/experimentation

The National Religious Campaign Against Torture video on torture/experimentation contains decidedly graphic and disturbing imagery:

Disregard for the Nuremberg Code

Torture is a moral issue, argues the National Religious Campaign against Torture. It has come back home again in a corruption of medical practice and scientific research, as the Physicians for Human Rights materials demonstrate.

Meredith Wadman of Nature writes:

According to Nancy Berlinger, a research scholar who studies clinical ethics at The Hastings Center in Garrison, New York, the report is distressing in part because it reveals a complete disregard for the Nuremberg Code. The 1947 code was created in response to evidence of Nazi-era experimentation and forms the basis for subsequent US regulations governing research. “To see evidence of experimentation on detainees in US custody feels like a body blow to people who care about research ethics,” says Berlinger.

SBC’s Richard Land et al. unhappy about gay immigration partners

Unsurprisingly certain evangelicals reject gay partners in immigration bill.

Southern Baptist Convention Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission czar Richard Land joined Liberty Counsel Chairman Mathew Staver and at best a handful of other Religious Right leaders in signing a statement of opposition to the proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

Although the National Evangelical Association, “which [Yahoo News reports] includes members from 40 evangelical denominations,” seeks to rally support for immigration reform.

You may struggle to make heads or tails of the Baptist Press story on Richard’s out-Land-ish stunt here. Or visit Right Wing Watch’s review of the little band of others attempt to kidnap the larger group’s spotlight here.