Beale Air Force Base, near Marysville, California, is home to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and in line with that mission deploys unarmed drones to gather intelligence. On October 30, some 50 anti-drone protesters, many from churches and religious organizations, showed up on a different sort of mission.
“I just want to shut down the business as usual at the base,” protester Sharon Delgado told reporters. “The longer the better.”
The Reverend Sharon Delgado, founding director of Earth Justice Ministries in Nevada City California, is an ordained United Methodist minister. During the 1990s she served as pastor of First United Methodist Church in Santa Cruz, California, where she was also an organizer with the Resource Center for Nonviolence. She is the author of Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization (Fortress Press, 2007) and the 1994 Hope For the Earth: A Handbook for Christian Environmental Groups, published by the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church.
The Rev. Delgado is signer of “A Call from the Faith-Based Community to Stop Drone Killings,” which states: “As representatives of faith-based communities, we are deeply concerned about the proliferation of lethal unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones. The United States is leading the way in this new form of warfare where pilots in US bases kill people, by remote control, thousands of miles away.”
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Comment by J P Logan on November 3, 2012 at 12:48 pm
Funny that the Episcopal bishop of Maryland acknowledged that people in his denomination have a “wide range of opinions” about same-sex “marriage.” The further the Episcopagans move to the left, the narrower that range of opinions is, since the committed Christians are fleeing to the Anglican Church in North America or other folds where people still honor the Bible.
Years ago I attended a United Church of Christ – an unusual congregation because the congregation and pastor were solidly evangelical. Eventually they left the denomination, so did all other evangelicals – and the UCC bureaucrats said “Good riddance!” The Episcs are doing the same thing, apparently happy to see their numbers decline if that means getting rid of those awful people who still believe in the Bible. So I guess it’s a win-win situation – the committed Christians find a church home where they belong, the liberals get rid of dissent.
Comment by J P Logan on November 3, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Right comment, wrong article.
My bad
Comment by Ben Welliver on November 3, 2012 at 2:42 pm
The website for this Sharon Delgado’s Earth Justice Ministries says that right after 9/11 she joined the staff of the Resource Center for Nonviolence. We all know the power those resource centers have over the minds of terrorists.
I guess we can file that bit of data under “Needs no comment.”
Comment by Eric Lytle on November 3, 2012 at 4:41 pm
It has her photo on the website – Woodstock generation, definitely, hasn’t looked at the calendar since then. Aging hippies have no clue how silly they look.
The website also says she graduated from the hyper-liberal Pacific School of Religion which is in (big surprise here) Berserkly, California. Seems like they’d change their name to School of Pacifist Religion. They dropped God but kept the lib ideology.
Comment by Eric Lytle on November 3, 2012 at 6:02 pm
I clicked on the link to that liberal group’s web page and my computer froze up for 5 minutes. My computer is trying to tell me something!