Muusja Mailing List: UU Minister on "The O'Reilly Factor" tonight on torture!& more

[Lauren Culbert (lculbert]

Forgive 2 MUUSJA postings in one day, but I thought most people would be
interested in these timely topics. L. 

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Dear SAC-News Readers:

Forgive a second posting this week but I have important updates on our
witness against the Military Commissions Act. 

 
The Rev. Kathleen McTigue, Senior Minister of the Unitarian Society of New
Haven, CT and a founding member of the non-profit group "Reclaiming the
Prophetic Voice," will appear tonight on "The O'Reilly Factor" (8 PM EDT,
check local listings) -- see http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/.  

McTigue, along with an interfaith group of clergy, raised funds to post two
billboards ("The Vote to Allow Torture") on the heavily-traveled highways
I-95 and I-84 to make sure Connecticut residents know which members of the
state's congressional delegation voted for the recently-signed Military
Commissions Act.  President Bush signed the bill into law earlier this week.
For details on uua.org's coverage of this story, see
http://www.uua.org/news/2006/061018_mca.html .

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We received the following report from the Washington Region Religious
Campaign Against Torture -- an interfaith organization with a large UU
contingent.  (The chair is UU and the meetings are held at River Road
Unitarian Church).  See  www.WRRCAT.org for a description of their protest
against the Military Commissions Act on Tuesday, Oct. 17 outside the White
House.  The group had their own "people's signing statement"
which they tried to present to the president while he was signing the bill
into law.

One of the four religious speakers at the protest was UU minister Rev.
Scott Alexander of River Road Unitarian Church, the "master of ceremonies"
was a UU, and three of the sixteen people arrested in the civil disobedience
are UUs (including the chair of the Washington region's Unitarian
Universalists for Social Justice). 




Susan Leslie
Director for Congregational Advocacy and Witness Unitarian Universalist
Association
25 Beacon Street, Boston MA  02108
(617) 948-4607; sleslie [at] uua.org
www.uua.org/justice
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