"Old Lyme church takes stance for Palestine
Published October 25. 2014 4:00AM
Updated October 25. 2014 11:56PM
By Kimberly Drelich
Publication: The Day
Old Lyme - After combing through its endowment to ensure it wasn't investing in "companies profiting from the occupation of the Palestinian Territories by the state of Israel," the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme is advocating for others to follow suit.
The local church initiated a resolution, adopted by the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ last week, to encourage churches to divest from companies which it characterizes as profiting in that manner.
The church also pushes for members to boycott goods "produced by Israeli companies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories" and to urge Congress to investigate whether U.S. military aid given to Israel is in violation of American laws.
By approving the resolution at its annual meeting last Friday, the Connecticut Conference becomes the fifth conference of the United Church of Christ nationwide to adopt a resolution calling for divestments, said Rev. Steven Jungkeit of the First Congregational Church. The United Church of Christ's General Synod is slated to consider the resolution this summer."
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http://www.theday.com/article/20141025/NWS01/310259962So rather than taking a stance against businesses located in Islamic slave states, that provide the death penalty by statute for the crime of "apostasy" or leaving Islam (particularly for coming to Jesus Christ), or rather than taking a stance against companies that profit in countries that provide the death penalty by statute for "blasphemy" or what we in the west recognize as speaking honestly and openly about Muhammad and Islam as as revealed through Islam's own books, they instead take a stance against companies in the only democracy in the Middle East that shares our western values, and protects the freedom, liberty and right to self-determination of Israeli Jews, Israeli Christians and Israeli non-Muslim Arabs - as well as Israeli Muslims. Israeli Muslims who enjoy more freedom, liberty and rights to self-determination in Israel, than they do in any Islam controlled country - any Islamic slave-state - on earth.
