Countless individuals support and adhere to the Consistent Life Ethic. So far, several hundred have formally endorsed the Ethic. Below is a small sample of some of the more recognizable individuals who've signed on.
ENDORSERS
Nobody's free until
everybody's free.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
Individual Endorsers
PARTIAL LISTING
Affiliations are for identification purposes only
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Michael Affleck, Ph.D.
Former International Coordinator, Greenpeace
Joan Andrews Bell
Prisoner of Conscience, Operation Rescue
Jann K. Armantrout-Arnold
Lobbyist, Childcare, Healthcare Reform
Sylvia Barnard, Ph.D.
Classics Department, SUNY Albany
†Fr. Don Bauer
Coalition on Racial Equality; Exec. Board, NYS Labor & Religion Coalition
Consuelo Beck-Sagué, M.D.
National Public Health Professional
Michael Patrick Beckstrom
Pax Christi Youth Forum
†Daniel Berrigan, SJ
Atlantic Life Community / Plowshares Activist
†Philip Berrigan
Jonah House, Plowshares Activist
Wendell Berry
Author and Environmentalist
†Rosalie Bertell, GNSH
International Director, Institute of Concern for Public Health, Toronto
†Janet Bezila
Anti-War Activist
Jean Blackwood
Author, Beyond Beginning and Other Poems
Fr. Roy Bourgeois, MM
Founder, School of Americas Watch
Dr. Robert M. Bowman
Director, Institute for Space & Security Studies
Bernard Broussard
Executive Director, Starthrowers
David Buer, OFM
Desert Voices, Nevada
Paul A. Callaghan
Young Prolife Socialists, U.K.
Sidney Callahan, Ph.D.
Feminist author
Fr. Jim Callan
Spiritus Christi Church, Rochester, NY
†Rev. Will D. Campbell
Cofounder, Committee of Southern Churchmen
Rachel Cann
Director, Brookline Women’s Shelter, Boston, MA
†Jean H. Cardinali
Author, Poverty Profile USA: In the Eighties
Norman B. Carroll
Call To Action, Women’s Ordination Conference
Rev. John Catoir
Former Director, The Christophers
John Cavanaugh, S.J.
Author of Following Christ in a Consumer Society
John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe
Prolife Nonviolent Action Project
Dr. Rhonda Chervin
St. John’s Seminary
Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB
Benedictine Sisters of Erie
Shane Claiborne
The Simple Way, Philadelphia
Bernhard Clasen
Anti-War Activist, Germany
John A. Coleman, SJ
Author and Speaker, Jesuit School of Theology
Berkeley, CA
Frank Cordaro
Peace Activist
Monica R. & Thomas C. Cornell
Guadalupe Catholic Worker House
John C. Cort
Editor, Christian Socialism
Dorothy Cotton
Civil Rights Nonviolence Leader;
Co-Worker with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Harvey Cox
Harvard Divinity School
Carol Crossed
President, Susan B Anthony Birthplace Museum
Robert E. Daggy
Thomas Merton Center, Bellarmine College
Ron Dart
Peace Educator, University College of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC, Canada
John Dear, SJ
Campaign Non-violence Director;
Author, Disarming the Heart: Toward a Vow of Nonviolence
†Peter DeMott
Griffiss Peace Community, Ithaca, NY
Marie Dennis
Maryknoll Office for Peace & Justice Office
Patricia Lay Dorsey
Founder, Co-Creators of Peace and Justice
Jim & Shelley Douglass
Peace Activists
Patricia Driscoll
Womanity
Mary O’Brien Drumm
Pro-life/Pro-peace activist, Erie
Betty Dunn
Congress of Justice & Peace, Castro Valley, CA
Eugenia & Bill Durland
Center on Law & Community
†Eileen Egan
Ambassador of Peace
Leonard E. Edelman
Pax Christi Former Executive Director, PILLAR
The Rev. Kathleen Eickwort
Episcopal Priest, Diocese of W. Michigan
Vincent Scotti Eirene
Duncan & Porter House of Hospitality & Resistance
Robert Ellsberg
Editor in Chief, Orbis Books
Ruth Enero
EMBRACE Publications
Mary & Nick Eoloff
Peace Studies Task Force, St. Paul, MN
Lowell O. Erdahl
Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church,
Author of Pro-Life/Pro-Peace
†Rose Evans
Animal Rights activist; Editor, Harmony
Dottie Everingham
Women Exploited by Abortion (WEBA)
Ann Farmer
Chair, Labour Life Group, British Labour Party, U.K.
Louis C. Fischer
Habitat for Humanity
Ellen Flanders
Sanctuary Movement, Albany Friends Meeting
†Jim Forest and Nancy Forest-Flier
Founders, International Fellowship of Reconciliation; Peace Media Service, Holland
Richard J. Foster
Author, Professor of Theology, Friends University
William C. Frey
Former Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Colorado, Dean Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry
Frye Gailliard
Journalist and Writer
Br. Rick Garcia
Brothers for Christian Community
Sixto Garcia, Ph.D.
Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians in the U.S. (ACHTUS)
Judie Jennings Gillespie
Founder, Project Rachel
Howard Goeringer
Editor, Jesus Journal, A Magazine on
Christian Nonviolence
Joseph Louis Golden
Author, Forties, We Stood at Ennis
†Doris Gordon
Natl. Coordinator, Libertarians for Life
Hildegard Goss-Mayr
Founder and Honorary President, International Fellowship of Reconciliation
Ellen Grady
Griffiss Peace Community
Gail Grenier Sweet
Author, Prolife Feminism: Yesterday and Today
†Thomas Gumbleton
Auxiliary Bishop, Detroit
David P. Gushee
Author, Professor and Chair: Faith and Public Life Mercer University
Brother Patrick Hart, OCSO
Abbey of Gethsemani
Stanley Hauerwas
Prof. of Theological Ethics, Duke University
Ruth Heaney, OSR
Founder, Families and Friends of Persons in Prison
Joe Hendricks
Associate Professor of Christianity
Mercer University
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Martha Hennessy
Kings Bay Plowshares
Peter Henriot
Former Director, Center for Concern, Washington
Gloria Herbert
Commission on Women, Maple Grove, MN
Christine Herbes-Sommers
C.M.H. Productions
Destiny Herndon-de La Rosa
Founder, New Wave Feminists
†Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC
President Emeritus, Univ. of Notre Dame
Ingrid Hill
Founder, Mothers Against the Draft
Joyce Hollyday
Sojourners
†Raymond J. Hunthausen
Former Archbishop of Seattle
Lana Jacobs
Companions of Shalom, Recipient, Martin Luther King Award
Marietta Jaeger
Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation
Mary Evelyn Jegen, SND
Pax Christi International
†Lawrence Martin Jenco, OSM
Former Hostage
Timothy Jessen
Former Moderator, Transylvania Presbytery
Presbyterian, Church (USA)
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Angela Jones
Peace Activist, Australia
Dr. Maureen Jones-Ryan
Executive Dir., Sexual Assault Recovery
Institute, Phoenix
†Fr. Carl Kabat (OMI)
Plowshares Prisoner of Conscience
Paul Kabat
Plowshares Prisoner of Conscience
William Kallio
Former Exec. Dir., Evangelicals for Social Action
J.K. Kavanaugh
Poet, Contributer to Voices for Peace
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James R. (Jim) Kelly
Sociologist
Lois Yake Kenagy
Peace & Justice Committee, Mennonite Church, Pacific Coast Conference
Kay Kemper
Founder, Feminists for Life of Minnesota
†Angela Kennedy
Women’s Officer, Labour Life Group, U.K.
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†Ken Kesey
Novelist
Janet Kluener
New Jerusalem Community, Cincinnati, OH
Gene Knudsen Hoffman
Quaker Peacemaker; Fellowship of Reconciliation
†Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB
Alliance for International Monasticism, Erie, PA
Faye Kunce
Coordinator, Pro-life/Pro-Peace Challenge
†J. Andrew Lipscomb
Founder: The Committee: Witnesses
for Reconciliation
Randy Loney, Ph.D.
Georgia Death Penalty Abolitionist
Georgiann Lyga
Gospel Justice Resource Center, Sacramento, CA
Rosemary Lynch, OSF
Franciscan Sister of Mt. Alverno, Redwood, CA
Jo Ann Lyon
Adjunct Professor of Women, Church & Society, Asbury Methodist Theological Seminary
Denise Mack
Women’s Ordination Conference
Sandra Mack
Union Activist, Teacher
Rachel MacNair
Quaker activist; Author, Pro-life Peace testimony
Francis & Judith MacNutt
Christian Healing Ministries, Jacksonville, FL
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Anthony D. Magliano
Social justice and peace columnist
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Paul Magno
Guatemala Partners
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
1976 Nobel Peace Laureate
Ken Maher
Conscientious Objector, Quaker/Catholic
Patrick Mahoney
Presbyterian Minister; Christian Defense Coalition
Jill Mann
Former Director, Just Life
Rev. Thomas J. Marti, MM
Maryknoll Development House, Seattle, WA
Frederica Mathewes-Green
Feminist Activist; Author, Real Choices
†Leroy T. Matthiesen
Bishop, Diocese of Amarillo, TX
Elizabeth McAlister
Anti-War Activist
Abigail Q. McCarthy
Writer
Colman McCarthy
Columnist, The Washington Post
Fr. Gary McCloskey
Dir. Augustinian Justice and Peace, Miami, FL
Barbara McCracken
Shalom House, Kansas City, MO
Kathleen & James McGinniss
Authors, Parenting for Peace and Justice
Anita McGlynn
Arts Director, NYC
Megan McKenna
Author, Speaker; Rights Activist
Fr. Albert J. McKnight, CS
Exec. Dir., Southern Development Foundation
Susan Carpenter McMillan
Former LA County Commission on Women
†Richard M. McSorley
Center for Peace Studies, Georgetown Univ.
William L. McSweeney, Jr.
Former publisher, National Catholic Reporter
Mary Meehan
Writer, Columnist
Catherine Meeks, Ph.D.
Author, Afro-American Studies, Mercer Univ.
Tom Meyer
Manhattan Right to Life
Gary Mitchener
Canon Pastor Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
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Christopher P. Momany, Ph.D
Methodist Chaplain Adrian College
Joan Monastero
Hudson Valley Pax Christi
Stephen V. Monsma
Professor of Political Science, Pepperdine Univ.
Don Mosely
Jubilee Partners, Comer, GA
Elena Muller-Garcia
Columnist, La Voz, Miami
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Vasu Murti
Founder, Allies for Peace
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Joe Nangle, OFM
Franciscan Mission Service, Author
Lilibeth Navarro
Former President, Disability Perspectives
Fr. Bruce Nieli
Director for Evangelization, National Council
of Catholic Bishops
†Henri J.M. Nowen
L’Arche-Daybreak, Author
Judith Johnson O’Brien
Former Commissioner on Women in the Church and in Society, Rochester, NY
Fr. Niall O’Brien
Author, Peace Building, Negros, Philippines
Bill Ofenloch
Former Coordinator, Catholic Peace Fellowship
Elizabeth Williams Omilani
People’s Survival Theatre
Dan O’Neill
Mercy Corps International
Ciaron O’Reilly
Peace Activist, Catholic Worker, Australia
†Fr. Dan O’Shea
AIDS Resource Center, New York, NY
Joan Orgon
Former Coordinator, Association for Public Justice
Fr. Sinclair Oubre
National Catholic Conference for Seafarers
Cathryn Holderread Passmore
Mennonite leader; Producer, Now Shall the Desert Bloom
Bill Pelke
Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation
Leonard Peltier
Political prisoner, American Indian Movement
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Nobel Peace Laureate, Servicio Paz y Justicia
Donald M. Peters
Former Vice-Chair, New York State
Right-to-Life Party
Ruth Phillips
International Life Services, Los Angeles, CA
Gaile M. Pohlhaus
Religious Studies, Villanova University
Rev. Richard M. Potts
Chair, Justice & Peace Commission, Redemptorist, St. Louis Province
Helen Prejean
CSJ, Death Penalty Abolitionist, Author,
Dead Man Walking
Karen Swallow Prior
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Mary Puccinelli
Call to Action, Chicago
Kevin Queally, TOR
Franciscan Federation, Justice & Peace
†Scott Rains
Former Director, Prolifers for Survival
Antonio Ramirez
Labor Organizer
Chana S. Ravinsky
Director, Jews for Life and Traditional Morality
David Reardon
Director, Elliot Institute for Social Sciences Research
William V. Reynolds, M.D.
Fellow, American College of Surgeons
Mary Rider
Peace & Justice Commission, Raleigh, NC
†Igal Rodenko
War Resisters League
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Rev. Samuel Rodriguez
National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
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Richard Rohr, OFM
Center on Action & Contemplation
Joe Roos
Publisher, Sojourners
Br. Cyprian Lamar Rowe, FMS
School of Social Work UMAB
Fr. Michael Scanlan TOR
Former President, Franciscan University
Scott Schaeffer-Duffy
International Coordinator, Seeds of Peace
Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM
Jesuit School of Theology, Berkely, CA
Suzanne Schnittman, Ph.D.
Sanctuary Activist, suffrage historian and Professor of History, SUNY
Linda & Mark Scibilia-Carver
Jubilee House Catholic Worker
Tom Sena
Prolife Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, Washington, DC
Charles J. Sharon, SA
Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute
Benjamin Sheldon
President, Presbyterian Prolife
†Bonnie Shullenberger
Writer, Educator
Episcopal Church News Correspondent
†Honorable Sargent Shriver
†Eunice Shriver
Founders, Special Olympics
Martin Sheen
Actor
†Ronald J. Sider
Evangelicals for Social Action, Author, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
Tom Siemer
Producer, Gods of Metal
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Cessilye R. Smith
Racial & Maternal Justice Activist and CEO of Abide Women's Health Services
Nicole M. Smith
Editor, Liberating Options
Robert Moss Smith
Brandywine Peace Community
†Mitch Snyder
Community for Creative Nonviolence
Ena Snyott-Bustra
Self-Determination for East Timor, Australia
Catherine Spencer
Labour Life Group, London, U.K.
Davis Steindl-Rast
Mount Savior Monastery, Author
Roberta (Bobbie) Stewart
Lutheran Peace Fellowship
John K. Stoner
Author; Mennonite Peace Activist
Margaret Sullivan, OP
Adrian Dominican Sister, SHARE Foundation
Walter F. Sullivan
Bishop of Richmond, VA
John Michael Talbot
Founder, Brothers & Sisters of Charity at Little Portion Hermitage
Joseph C. Taphorn
Cofounder, Students Helping Others Worldwide (SHOW)
Van C. Temple
Assoc. Exec. Dir, Evangelicals for Social Action
Marcia Timmel
Director, Northwest Center, Washington, DC
Joseph Toritto
War Tax Resister
Rev. Benjamin Urmston, SJ
Dorothy Day House, Director of Programs in Peace and Justice, Xavier University
Gerard Vanderhaar
Professor of Religion & Peace Studies, Author, Active Nonviolence, and Why Good People Do Bad Things
Gerald Vandezande
Co-Founder, Citizens for Public Justice
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David Virtue
Evangelical Partners in Mission
Dale Vree
Editor, New Oxford Review
Debby J. Wakeham
Peace, Ethics, Animals, and Consistent Human Rights (PEACH), Luton Beds, U.K.
Regis Walling
Founder, Pregnancy Service of Michigan
Jim Wallis
Sojourners
Juli Loesch Wiley
Author, Speaker, Peace & Life Activist, Founder, Prolifers for Survival
Martha Yonke
Founder, Caritas Community
†George Zabelka
Do Something for Peace
†Gordon C. Zahn
Author, A Solitary Witness: The Life of
ranz Jaegestetter
Michael Zavacky
Pennsylvania Prisons Society
†Jerry Zawada, OFM
Peace Planters, Peace Prisoner
Stephen Zunes, Ph.D.
Author; Director, Institute for a New Middle East Policy