TEXAS RELIGIOUS LEADERS CALL ON CONGRESS TO ELIMINATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS
AUGUST 8, 2007--Texas Impact and the Texas Conference of Churches released a statement today on behalf of Texas religious leaders urging the Texas Congressional delegation to lead the way toward the “global abolition of nuclear arms”. The statement coincides with the 62nd anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
The statement was signed by 15 bishops and leaders of Texas’ Christian denominational subdivisions, and released by the Texas Conference of Churches and Texas Impact. U.S. Senators Hutchinson and Cornyn and all of Texas’ U.S. Representatives received the statement and letter at their D.C. offices and in the district as members are home for the August recess.
The religious leaders specifically ask Texas Congressional delegates “to lead the way for the global abolition of nuclear weapons by championing a plan for locking down, reducing, and eliminating nuclear weapons in a step-by-step process that includes ever increasing verifications.” The letter urges Congress to exert global leadership in reducing the danger of nuclear proliferation.
The statement highlights the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in which nearly 250,000 people died as a sober reminder that leaders “may face no other policy issue that has such solemn and far-reaching implications as the specter of nuclear annihilation.”
