Petition to George W. Bush - Ash Wednesday 2003 This full page petition ran in the Hartford Courant on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2003. Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice would like to express... Buddhist Voices Twenty five hundred years ago, Shakyamuni Buddha was born a warrior prince in a small Indian kingdom. He renounced the privileges of worldly power and became an uncompromising warrior for peace. The Buddha said: Hatred never ends by hatred in this world ...

Catholic Voices We respectfully urge you to step back from the brink of war and help lead the world to act together to fashion an effective global response to Iraq's threats that conforms with traditional moral limits on the use of military force. Episcopalian Voices A superpower, especially one that declares itself to be "under God," must exercise the role of super servant. Our nation has an opportunity to reflect the values and ideals that we ... Jewish Voices International cooperation is far, far better than unilateral action, and the U.S. must explore all reasonable means of attaining such support. Non-military action is always preferable ... Lutheran Voices Since the end of the Gulf War nearly 12 years ago, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and a number of partners working for peace in the Middle East have expressed concern about ... Methodist Voices United Methodists have a particular duty to speak out against an unprovoked attack. President Bush and Vice-President Cheney are members of our denomination. Our silence now could be interpreted as ... Muslim Voices We call on our leadership to find a less harmful way to support democracy in Iraq. We call on our government to re-evaluate the validity and justification of military intervention. We call on our government to offer humanitarian aid that will ... Presbyterian Voices The General Assembly Council (GAC) on Saturday issued a “call to prayer and action,” urging Presbyterians to oppose a precipitate U.S. attack on Iraq and the Bush administration’s “new doctrine of pre-emptive military action.” Unitarian-Univeralist Voices Presently we face problems of potentially catastrophic proportion brewing in Iraq and the Middle East. The world stands at a crossroads of war and peace; the United States has the power to choose which direction we go. The direction our nation chooses ... United Church of Christ Voices With heavy hearts we hear once again the drumbeat of war against Iraq. As leaders committed to God's reign of justice and peace in the world and to the just conduct of our nation, we firmly oppose this advance to war. While Iraq's weapons potential is uncertain, the death that would be inflicted ...