Torture Bill (aka Military Commissions Act) is moral, spiritual, and democratic abomination

I wish to extend Steve Rockwell's post (http://www.crossleft.org/?q=node/2271) on the coup d'etat of morality and decency aptly called the "Torture Bill" (or the sanitized version, "Military Commissions Act of 2006"). This is a call to action to any Christian of conscience. In fact, I have never seen a more heart-wrenching and stomach-turning example of anti-Christian legislation in my lifetime. This goes over the line. No credible Christian could support the judgment and deliberate, arbitrary infliction of suffering on another with NO chance of hearing evidence or even getting a fair trial.

The bill allows three things:
1) It allows the President, or a tribunal of his choice, (and by example, any leader) to determine if anyone (including U.S. citizens) is an enemy combatant. He doesn't need any reason or process, just his say-so.
2) It allows the President (and by example, any leader) to define what torture is. Considering his administration has supported a definition which finds all things acceptable except major organ failure and death, I'm not comforted.
3) It allow the President (and by example, any leader) to suspend habeus corpus, right to trial, meet accusers, and view and challenge evidence.

This bill allows the President to take any one of us from our homes, jail us indefinitely, torture us (and, oops, if we die, no offense, it was nothing personal), and then convict us on the basis of "secret evidence." If this sounds familiar it should, because that is exactly what happened to Jesus. He was branded the equivalent of a "terrorist" in Ancient Rome, convicted without evidence, and tortured on the Cross. It sure is nice to know that the Bush administration would have only advocated for the crown of thorns and the nails through the feet of Christ (rather than the sword in the side, major organ limitations, you know), after finding Jesus to be disloyal and a "state threat" for daring to advocate for the poor and challenging military authority with his subversive message of peace,

What I find so disgusting about this whole debacle on the practical and political level is that some 12 Democrats voted for it, and that John McCain himself engineered this monstrous moral cave-in disguised as political compromise. This bill ironically okays everything that happened to him during his five-year torture in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. And the people who just kidnapped an American soldier in Iraq, well now they could declare him an enemy combatant, conduct and videotape torture, detain him indefinitely, convict him without evidence, and it would be squarely within the rights already granted to our so-called leader.

As with any Christian, my primary allegiance is not to a secular leader, but to the Son of God, and when a secular leader, calling himself Christian, profanes and abuses the message, example, and spirit of the Living Christ, he needs to be called out. I call for every Christian, no matter what their political orientation to repudiate this profound spiritually and politically abusive bill and elect a new Congress with the courage to apply checks and balances and overturn this travesty.