By Faith McDonnell, Juicy Ecumenism.
On Monday evening, March 14, in a full House vote, the U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass H.Con.Res.75, the resolution introduced by U.S. Representatives Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA). You can read more about this issue on my Patheos blog post here.
The original title of the concurrent resolution was: Expressing the sense of Congress that those who commit or support atrocities against Christians and other ethnic and religious minorities, including Yezidis, Turkmen, Sabea-Mandeans, Kaka‘e, and Kurds, and who target them specifically for ethnic or religious reasons, are committing, and are hereby declared to be committing, “war crimes”, “crimes against humanity”, and “genocide”. During the floor consideration, the title was amended to this: Expressing the sense of Congress that the atrocities perpetrated by ISIL against religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria include war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, but other than the annoying and inaccurate use of “ISIL” (see the IRD video from our Providence Magazine recent conference at the Institute of World Politics and the bracing talk by Dr. Sebastian Gorka on ISIS about who and what ISIS calls themselves now!) all is well, and the text of the resolution remains the same.
Related article: Six Reasons Why ISIS Attacks on Christians Should Be Declared Genocide
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If today if you a cursory overview of the various PCUSA blogs, denominational sites, ‘Outlook’ publications The terms Christian and Genocide are neither to be found or contained in the same sentence. Again in the PCUSA, “Christian Genocide” is a non-event, does not register.
Such is the de-evolution of the entity into an insular, self-absorbed collection of various boutique causes and vanity projects. Uttery worthless.