Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Clergy
Speak Out Against The War on Drugs
View this 10-minute video at:
www.idpi.us/clergy_dvd
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"One of the reasons that we as religious leaders need to speak out
against it is because we share responsibility for it."
– REV. SCOTT RICHARDSON, Dean, St. Paul's Episcopal
Cathedral, San Diego
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"There has to be a complete reconsideration of what law enforcement
represents in our community... I’m convinced that it would be a
totally different world if that adversarial relationship did not exist
between law enforcement and the young people of this country."
– REV. EDWIN SANDERS, Senior Pastor, Metropolitan
Interdenominational, Nashville
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"With the mandatory sentences you don’t need a judge or a jury. All
you need is a clerk to come in and weigh the drugs... [T]he whole
drug policy and those laws need to be repealed."
– SISTER MARION DEFEIS, Catholic prison chaplain (ret.)
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"We know we have a drug problem [but] war is definitely not the
answer... The reality is... this drug war has put more armaments on
our streets."
– EDDIE LOPEZ, Former United Methodist Pastor, New York
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"I would say that the war on drugs has caused as much devastation
to communities around this country, particularly low income
communities, as the drugs themselves."
– RABBI MICHAEL FEINBERG, Exec. Dir., Greater New York
Labor-Religion Coalition
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The Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative – www.idpi.us
Produced by Common Sense for Drug Policy – www.csdp.org
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