Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience
Conservative Christian leaders unveiled a declaration Friday calling on Christians not to comply with rules and laws forcing them to accept abortion, same-sex marriage and other ideals that go against their religious doctrines.
Dear Friends,
Last Friday at the National Press Club in
Washington, DC, a coalition of Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians
publicly declared their support for the sanctity of human life, the sacredness
of the natural family, and the importance of religious freedom.
This
public witness for truth is called the Manhattan
Declaration, and you can view the entire Declaration here.
How
providential that on Friday, when the United States Senate was getting ready to
begin debate on a healthcare bill that includes an aggressive assault against
human life, these brave men and women were standing--quite literally a few
blocks away--defending Truth?
More than 150 Christian
leaders, including professors, pastors, clergy, cardinals, political activists,
and media professionals signed the document.
The Manhattan Declaration truly reached
over denominational lines to stand for the Truth.
Here is a breakdown of
many of the Christians who signed:
22 Bishops
signed, including:
14 Roman Catholic Bishops (Chaput,
Cordileone, Dolan, Kurtz, Madia, Malone, Myers, Nuamann, Nienstedt, Olmsted,
Rigali, Sheridan, Wuerl, and Zubik.)
2 Eastern Orthodox Bishops:
Metropolitan Jonah (OCA) and Bishop Basil (Antiochian)
20 Heads of and 19 faculty members of
Seminaries, Colleges and
Universities
including:
Albert Mohler, David Dockery, Robert
Sloan, Duane Litfin, J. I. Packer, Tom Oden, Peter Kreeft, Cornelius
Plantinga
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Leaders of various ministries, associations, policy institutes and
think
tanks including:
Chuck Colson of Prison Fellowship
Ministries, Rav Zacharias of the National Association of Evangelicals, Tony
Perkins of Family Research Council, Maggie Gallagher of the Institute for
Marriage and Public Policy, and George Weigel of the Ethics and Public Policy
Center.
22
Pastors including:
Rev. Tim Keller, Rev. Jonathan
Falwell, Rev. Harry Jackson, Dr. Jack Graham, Rev. Herb Lusk,
10 Publishers
including:
Christianity Today, First Things, Kairos Journal, Touchstone, Ignatius Press, and World Magazine
The Manhattan Declaration is hoping to make a big impact with our
government, politicians, and media folks by letting them know many Americans
will continue to stand fast in defense of Christian principles.
The
signers of the Manhattan Declaration are looking to acquire 1 million online
signatures by December 1st. Since Friday, they've acquired more than 80,000.
Please take a few minutes
today, to sign the Manhattan Declaration by clicking here
and
stand with your brothers and sisters in Christ in defense of life, the family,
and religious liberty!
God bless...MORE!
Top 10 Challenges
- Your all-powerful God created the devil and evil - simply to set up "the fall." He did this KNOWING that most souls would ultimately suffer eternal punishment. You call this a good God? I call it evil.
- If God is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-loving, why does he PERMIT starvation, child molestation, rape, torture and genocide? And telling us these VICTIMS suffer because of an inherited sin committed by Adam and Eve does not suffice!
- Questions For Atheists (*) REGARDING:
- There is no scientific evidence for the existence of God...just assertions.
- Dennis McKinsey single-handedly disproves Biblical inerrancy in his book, "Biblical Errancy" - your team should read it.
- Atheism is the DEFAULT position. The burden of proof is on the Christian asserting God exists. All we're asking is to see the convincing emperical EVIDENCE.
- So you believe in a book full of contradictions, one that endorses slavery, incest, murder, drowning babies, genocide and stoning homosexuals?
- The Bible is a collection of fairytales written by illiterate goat herders back in the Bronze Age. The Catholic Church cherry picked which fables to include to mind control non-thinking tithers.
- If I were raised in India, I’d most likely be a Hindu. You would be a Muslim if raised in Saudi Arabia. Is it ‘fair and just’ of God to have billions of people’s eternal destinies determined by “God’s Divinely ordained” place of birth?
- Jesus is a borrowed myth dressed up like a Jew. He never existed, period. There is zero SUFFICIENT evidence that Jesus ever existed? Zero. It’s all a terrible hoax for the church to control the masses.
