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Voting for Torture

[The National Religious Campaign Against Torture has released its annual scorecard](http://www.nrcatactionfund.org/election-resources/congressional-vote-scorecard). NRCAT scored Senators and Representatives based on a variety of votes. **Paul Ryan** recieved a score of 11/100 by failing ot act against torture on eight of nine opportunities. **Ron Paul**, by contrast received a score of 83. (He missed some votes and co-sponsorship opportunities.) **Rand Paul** is at 50%--but he's new enough that there's not much data. **John Boehner** managed a perfect 0. **Harry Reid** and **Nancy Pelosi** received 100. I would encourage anybody interested in preventing torture by the U.S. to look through the score cards. As my libertarian friends are quick to point out, nobody has a perfect record. But ... there are many shades of imperfect. If ending torture is important to you, you don't have a lot of friends among the Republicans. And you definitely won't have a lot of friends in Mitt "Double Guantanamo" Romney's administration.

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Today is United Nation’s International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

The victims of United States torture may not be the most likeable torture victims--but they are nevertheless torture victims. It's a strange thing when something as morally unambiguous as solidarity with torture victims puts us in opposition to our own country. How did we get here? The National Religious Campaign Against Torture has put out a call for a commission of inquiry to answer that question. What happened? And how can we make sure it never happens again? [I would encourage like-minded to add their names to this call.](http://www.nrcat.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=197) Torture is a moral issue. There are some things we must not tolerate, no matter how scared we are.