Think you unpact with the Manhattan Declaration:
As you know, the “Manhattan Declaration” (hereafter MD) was a bad idea that became a bad document that undeservingly boasted some very good names.
In our various discussions, many regretted having signed the document. They had, at first, understandably seen wisdom in co-belligerency in opposing abortion, the loss of freedoms, and the forced normalization of perversion. However, they had missed the deliberate muddling of the vitally-important edges of the Gospel. Now they wanted to un-sign.
But how to do so?
Pyromaniacs: Un-signing the Manhattan Declaration: a PSA from Pyro.
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At the center of the event was Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor of jurisprudence and a Roman Catholic who is this country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker. Dressed in his usual uniform of three-piece suit, New College, Oxford cuff links and rimless glasses, George convened the meeting with a note of thanks and a reminder of its purpose. Alarmed at the liberal takeover of Washington and an apparent leadership vacuum among the Christian right, the group had come together to warn the country’s secular powers that the culture wars had not ended. As a starting point, George had drafted a 4,700-word manifesto that promised resistance to the point of civil disobedience against any legislation that might implicate their churches or charities in abortion, embryo-destructive research or same-sex marriage.
Two months later, at a Washington press conference to present the group’s “Manhattan Declaration,” George stepped aside to let Cardinal Rigali sum up just what made the statement, and much of George’s work, distinctive. These principles did not belong to the Christian faith alone, the cardinal declared; they rested on a foundation of universal reason. “They are principles that can be known and honored by men and women of good will even apart from divine revelation,” Rigali said. “They are principles of right reason and natural law.”
Robert P. George, the Conservative-Christian Big Thinker – NYTimes.com.
For those who have sensitive yes, you might wish to avoid this, but if you want to see more of George, anyway, go here.
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On November 20, 2009, a document called the Manhattan Declaration was presented to the public by a coalition of cobelligerents. The document is concerned primarily with three very important biblical and cultural issues: the sanctity of life, the meaning of marriage, and the nature of religious liberty. Without question, these issues are up for grabs in our nation.
Continue reading “R.C. Sproul on NOT signing the Manhattan Declaration #mdec”
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I’ve already noted that James White has refused to sign, but here is the sermon which he gave this past Sunday addressing it. I fear that it is increasingly being used as a litmus test for Christians.
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Recently, in response to a tweet that I made regarding the 67th book of the Canon, the Manhattan Declaration, which went something like this: ‘#mdec has more followers than the Gospel’, I was ruthlessly (nice victim word) attacked by ‘Christians.’
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Take more than a hundred conservative Evangelicals, mix in a handful of Catholics, and sprinkle in a few Orthodox priests, and you’ve got all the ingredients for a new culture war manifesto. It’s called the Manhattan Declaration, and it is a heady statement seeking to reinvigorate the political alliance of conservative Christians who were a force to be reckoned with during the Bush Administration.
Continue reading “Manhattan Declaration unlikely to inspire young Christians”
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