Posts Tagged ‘human rights’

Georgia State Stays Execution of Intellectually Disabled Man, Warren Hill

Warren Hill Georgia inmate

Warren Hill Georgia inmate's execution is stayed for now

Georgia State Stays Execution of Intellectually Disabled Man, Warren Hill

The Guardian reports:

Warren Hill, a death row prisoner in Georgia who has been diagnosed intellectually disabled, has been granted a stay of execution 90 minutes before he was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection.

The Georgia supreme court unanimously decided to postpone the death sentence in a case that has caused an uproar nationally and around the world.

Bishop Harry Jackson Calls Obama’s Gay/Human Rights Initiative “Brainwashing America”

Bishop Harry Jackson

Bishop Harry Jackson

Bishop Harry Jackson Call Obama’s Gay/Human Rights Initiative as “Brainwashing America”

President Obama issued a presidential memorandum Tuesday directing U.S. agencies to assist gays and lesbians in other countries who are facing human rights violations.
For the first time ever, U.S. government will use the treatment of gays as a factor in awarding foreign aid.
The new foreign policy initiative was announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a speech to diplomats in Geneva, Switzerland.
With that being said and you all knowing our stand on the matter, we are not alone. Bishop Harry Jackson of the International Communion of Evangelical Churches talked about these issues on the CBN News Channel’s Morning News, Dec. 7.