Top rabbis from the Reform and Conservative movements will join an
interfaith call for greater gun controls in the wake of last week's
school massacre in Connecticut.
Rabbi David Saperstein, who directs the Reform movement's Religious
Action Center, and Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, who directs the Conservative
movement's Rabbinical Assembly, will appear at a press conference Friday
at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. along with mainline
Protestant, Evangelical, Roman Catholic and Muslim leaders.
"We must come together as people of faith, representing the range of
religious traditions throughout our country, in a collective call to
action to end this crisis,” Saperstein said in a release ahead of the
press conference. “The time to end senseless gun violence is now, and as
religious leaders, the responsibility to provide moral leadership is
ours.”
President Obama this week appointed a commission to be helmed by his
vice president, Joe Biden, to address controls on assault weapons and
large-capacity magazines, as well as broader questions of culture and
mental health treatment.
Adam Lanza last week killed his mother and then, armed with weapons
registered in her name, continued to Sandy Hook elementary school in
Newtown, Conn., and murdered 20 first-graders and six adults before
killing himself.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/12/21/3115136/reform-conservative-leaders-join-gun-control-call#When:12:53:00Z
Friday 21 December 2012
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