The American InterFaith Institute requests your aid

Last week I wrote a post called Talk about a Burning Desire to Nail One’s Butt to Any Cross concerning the US Presbyterian Church leaders who met with Hezbollah as a show of support and to foster improved relations between the two organizations.

Tonight I received an email today from the American InterFaith Institute requesting (very nicely I might add – and that’s a hint for anyone seeking requests from me) help in bring awareness to their protest.

Research through our Faiths For Fairness project shows a long-standing pattern of bias and one-sided advocacy toward the Palestinians by the leadership and staff of the Presbyterian Church USA in their Middle East relationships.

On fact-finding trips to the Middle East, we found that the leadership makes a point of visiting governmental officials in the countries and territories bordering Israel, but have not visited Israeli governmental officials. We have found that the leaders and staff make a point of aligning themselves with pro-Palestinian organizations, but have not been a party to pro-Israel organizations. We have found that the leaders and staff assist pro-Palestinian organizations in making presentations at churches, seminaries, and other Presbyterian venues, but have not solicited pro-Israel organizations to make similar presentations.

To question Presbyterian Church USA leaders about these facts, Faiths For Fairness, the website of the American Interfaith Institute, now includes a letter-writing campaign directed to two top leaders of the Presbyterian Church USA, Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick and General Assembly Council Executive Director John Detterick. Through 24 very specific questions, this letter challenges these officials to explain their Church’s position.

As many of you know, a Presbyterian Church USA delegation visited Hezbollah on October 20, 2005. One of the questions in the letter asks about Presbyterian delegations visiting Hezbollah on three prior occasions, in May 2002, June 2004, and October 2004.

More than 8,000 Presbyterian Churches have been notified as to the existence of this letter. They have been encouraged to print, sign and fax the letter to PCUSA headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky. We hope you will post information about this letter on your site. The public deserves answers from the PCUSA leadership.

I decided to go check out Faiths for Fairness and peruse their website as I have no knowledge of this organization. I saw nothing that I felt was objectable or offensive and I was pleased to see a page on Palestinian Christian whose plight has been largely ignored in the ongoing canonization of Arafat and his band of murderous thugs by the MSM. I know very little about this organization but I am heartened that someone other than me wants to make a stand against the courting of murderous thugs by so-called Christian leaders.

Just in case any you have any lingering doubts about Hezbollah go visit Michael J. Totten’s blog and view the billboards that Hezbollah has erected at the Lebanese border with Israel. Trust me, Jesus would never sanctioned a group that would display the severed heads of Israeli soldiers as a Welcome to Lebanon.