An Evangelical Declaration Against Torture

In the "back of the book" of the August 2007 First Things, Fr. Neuhaus notes and discusses this document, "An Evangelical Declaration Against Torture:  Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Terror."  He calls attention to this passage in particular, which seems worth emphasizing:

When torture is employed by a state, that act communicates to the world and to one’s own people that human lives are not sacred, that they are not reflections of the Creator, that they are expendable, exploitable, and disposable, and that their intrinsic value can be overridden by utilitarian arguments that trump that value.  These are claims that no one who confesses Christ as Lord can accept.

It is striking, by the way, how freely and openly this "Evangelical" declaration makes use of Catholic human-rights works and teachings.