A Christian Call to Arms ; Hundreds of Thousands Vow Fight for Values
The Washington Times › December 21, 2009
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The recently released Manhattan Declaration is noteworthy because, unlike the signatories of other declarations that are long on rhetoric and short on calls to action, the more than 300,000 people who signed this declaration (including 55 Catholic bishops who have oversight of more than 600 of the nation's private hospitals) agree to engage in civil disobedience regarding laws that reject mainstream values.
The declaration's signers commit to their "obligation" to "speak and act in defense" of biblical truths. Signers pledge "that no power on Earth, be it cultural or political, will intimidate us into silence or acquiescence" on the sanctity of life, the divinely ordained nature of marriage, and religious liberty." Those truths, they agree, are open to neither compromise nor revision.See the full content of this document
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A Christian Call to Arms ; Hundreds of Thousands Vow Fight for Values
They are, however, subject to public debate. Political and religious leaders are deliberating the significance and ramifications of statements like this: "We will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in aborti...
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