As retired clergy, I, too, have wrestled with the Saudi connection, especially with their repression of non-Islamic religions and other human rights violations. However, I have been purchasing and using gasoline and products made with their oil and will inevitably continue to do so as long as petroleum and manufacturers purchase from them, thereby enriching them. I would rather reward them for doing something that is good. For the same reason, I attended the first ever interfaith gathering of eighty global religious leaders (Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims) in Saudi Arabia last year in spite of my reservations about their human rights record because it was a step in the right direction.
