church folks against war

[Dennis Perrin]

> Anecdotally, here in Wis., outside of Milwaukee and Madison most of the
> visible grassroots opposition to the war comes from religious groups.
They
> certainly provide most of the infrastructure, i.e., meeting places.  The
good
> thing about this is that many ordinary people who would ignore or dismiss
out
> of hand critiques of the war coming from the left will listen to similar
> arguments emanating from the clergy.  I speak, of course, of Catholic and
> mainline Protestant denominations.  Not many fundies around here.
>
> Jacob Conrad

As I've noted here before, the Christians I dealt with during the Central
American wars were the most committed and humane activists I'd ever met.
They truly believed in and fully lived their faith, were tolerant and kind.
And they saved lives, unlike the hideous sectarians, mostly white and
middle-class, who acted like little nazis and used the carnage in El
Salvador and Nicaragua as a backdrop for their empty sloganeering and paper
waving. Vile things who only served themselves. And they're still around, I
see.

DP