Christians Against Torture

Abstract

"Last year's Baptist Union Assembly commanded the campaign against torture to the denomination. Since the assembly also urged action on the Brandt Report, disarmament, unemployment, the Nationality Law and Salvador, a vigorous response was hardly to be expected. Torture is not an issue with immediate appeal even to a sociallycommitted church meeting, especially set alongside half-a-dozen equally worthy and pressing causes. lt might have been sunk without trace, with the conscience-salving words of the assembly declaration (borrowed from the British Council of Churches) the all-too-understandable limit of Baptist response"