The October 15 Union Tribune had a report written by John Kekis about a New Hartford, NY family who beat their teenage sons at church until one died to supposedly extract some sort of confession out of them. See this article The members of the Word of Life Christian Church read the bible regularly and supposedly believed in the teachings of Christ. This is clearly an example of one of the reasons we need to make sure religion and government are totally separated. Throughout history, many religions have practiced different forms of torture including Catholics in many countries. Most recently the Bush/Cheney regime promoted torture and rendition to different countries in the futile hope of getting useful information. Of course, these same "pro-lifers" promoted the death penalty and liberalization of gun laws.
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