The Manhattan Declaration's tagline is as follows: "Ours is, as it must be, a truly consistent ethic of love and life for all humans in all circumstances."
Here are excerpts from Wikipedia's synopsis of the Manhattan Declaration (the usual whines about gay marriage and assorted criticisms from the left not included below are also on the Wikipedia page; if you must read them, click here):
The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience is a manifesto issued by Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical Christian leaders to affirm support of "the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty". It was drafted on October 20, 2009 and released November 20, 2009, having been signed by more than 150 American religious leaders. On the issue of marriage, the declaration objects not only to same-sex marriage but also to the general erosion of the "marriage culture" with the spectre of divorce, greater acceptance of infidelity and the uncoupling of marriage from childbearing. The Declaration's website encourages supporters to sign the declaration, and counts 544,691 signatures as of January 22, 2014.The Declaration summarizes itself as follows:
Because the sanctity of human life, the dignity of marriage as a union of husband and wife and the freedom of conscience and religion are foundational principles of justice and the common good, we are compelled by our Christian faith to speak and act in their defense. In this declaration we affirm: 1) the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of every human being as a creature fashioned in the very image of God, possessing inherent rights of equal dignity and life; 2) marriage as a conjugal union of man and woman, ordained by God from the creation, and historically understood by believers and non-believers alike, to be the most basic institution in society and; 3) religious liberty, which is grounded in the character of God, the example of Christ, and the inherent freedom and dignity of human beings created in the divine imageThe declaration vows civil disobedience if Christians feel that their rights to civil liberties of free exercise of religion and freedom of speech are being violated...[citing] Martin Luther King, Jr.,... Augustine and Aquinas...
Notable signatories:
Salvatore Cordileone, Bishop of Oakland
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family
Archbishop (now Cardinal) Timothy Michael Dolan, Archbishop of New York
Robert Wm. Duncan, primate of the Anglican Church in North America
Ligon Duncan, president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
Bishop Basil (Essey) of Wichita of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
Cardinal John Patrick Foley, Grand Master (now Grand Master Emeritus) of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
Bishop Mark (Maymon), formerly of the Diocese of Toledo of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, now of the Orthodox Church in America
Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Jonah (Paffhausen), former primate Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in America
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council
Cardinal Justin Francis Rigali, Archbishop (now Archbishop Emeritus) of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Rev. Robert A. Sirico, president of Acton Institute
Robert B. Sloan, Jr., president of Houston Baptist University
Joseph M. Stowell, III, president of Cornerstone University
Chuck Swindoll, chancellor of Dallas Theological Seminary
Timothy C. Tennent, president of Asbury Theological Seminary
Archbishop (now Cardinal) Donald William Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington
Ravi Zacharias, Christian apologetic, author, and lecturer
Click here for the home page of the Manhattan Declaration.
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