What is happening to our nation? How do people like this get elected?

I read on the Atlantic’s website about  Republican Congressman Aaron Schock from Peoria, Illinois who was a recent guest on Hardball.  While on that program he made the statement, “I don’t believe that we should limit waterboarding – or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique – if it means saving Americans’ lives.”

Let that sink in for a moment. “Any alternative torture technique”.  That means water boarding, flaying alive, bolt cutters to the fingers, or whatever else they can dream up.  In the view of this public official, whom citizens of this country voted for and put into office, any torture technique should be used if you think you might be saving an American life. He should be reminded that these people that he so easily talks about torturing are, despite anything they have done, human beings who have been created in the Image of Christ. Torturing them is torturing the image of Christ.

How do people like this get elected? It’s a disgrace to our nation. At least in the Bush years they tried to play word games and pretend like it wasn’t really torture that they were engaged in.  Congressman Schock doesn’t think  that is necessary any more.  He’s willing to call torture what it is and proudly proclaim his support for more of it.  May God have mercy on his soul and on us for being the kind of people who would ever elect such a dangerous moral cripple like that to high office.

Here is a link to the article:  http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/aaron-schock-unambiguously-protorture.html