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Posted
Nov. 22, 2002
| Quakers
Affirm Commitment to Peace in Iraq |
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To the editor:
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| At a recent meeting for business, Herndon Friends Meeting
reaffirmed the historic Quaker commitment to peace by uniting
with a "Minute on Iraq¥" approved earlier by Baltimore Yearly
Meeting, the larger corporate body of Quakers in the Baltimore-Washington
area. This statement of concern reads, in part: |
| "We of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends,
are deeply troubled by the drive to make war on Iraq. We oppose
plans to take military actions against the Iraqi leadership
and are concerned about the tragic consequences of such action,
not only for the Iraqi people but also for the United States
and the world as a whole. |
| "We believe that all wars sow a bitter seed and that the
Iraqi people, United States citizens and all people of the
world will reap a bitter harvest. Jesus challenged us to aspire
to a higher standard than an "eye for an eye." We are not
to smite our enemies, but to love them and we feel obliged,
even in the face of evil to follow that admonition. |
| "We ask our leaders to use the great power of the United
States in an exemplary fashion to sow the seeds of peace and
justice, a harder choice, but the right one." |
| Catharine Tunis |
| Clerk, Herndon Friends Meeting |
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