In an interview after the session ended, McElroy suggested an all-of-the-above approach that could include public statements as well as directly pressuring House leadership.
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“My hope is the conference will advocate very strongly with the leadership in the House — and with specific members — to communicate to that diminishment of the aid to Ukraine, or even the perception that there might be a diminishment in aid to the Ukraine, is a lifeline to the Kremlin,” McElroy, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on morality and American foreign policy, told Religion News Service.
Reducing the flow of resources to Ukrainians, he warned, “will result in a longer war, more profound suffering overall, and threaten the whole European community that borders Russia.”
Gudziak expressed gratitude for the proposal, saying he wished he’d said it himself.
“I think it’s very important to speak to extremes of our political spectrum that tend to be very naive about President Putin, and to be tempted by kind of an isolationist view,” he told RNS.
“In general, the American people broadly support American aid to Ukraine because they understand it’s in America’s best interest,” Gudziak continued. “They also see the virtue of the Ukrainian position: It’s a position of peace, it’s a position of democracy, of freedom, (and) it’s a position that is inspired by faith.”
This article originally appeared on ReligionNews.com.
