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Sure, its here:

http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/

It focuses on sanctity of human life, traditional marriage, and liberty of conscience as the three critical areas where government intrusions must be resisted even if bad law says otherwise, hence civil disobedience. The Healthcare bill intervenes on all those domains.

First, we all know one of the big things that will come out of Reid’s bill is the permanent enculturation of abortion, with everyone having a right to it and everybody sharing in the cost of killing babies. Over time, we’ll just get used to it. Right. Not to mention the general cheapening of human life as a mere commodity, people living or dying at the whim of the state, as determined by their usefulness index. Rendering permanent the devaluation of human life isn’t just a bad political turn; it is a decent into Hell, and all thinking people should resist going there.

Second, the privacy, sanctity, and procreative role of family are all subjected to the “superior wisdom” of statist nannies who will come to your home and tell you how to raise your babies, what to feed them, what to teach them, what to tell them to believe. Yes. that’s in there. If we roll over for all that, we will devolve to Netherlands 2.0, a sexual “utopia” where the whole notion of family is fading from view. We can’t, we won’t go there.

Third, it is the highest arrogance and the lowest form of slavery for the state to tell people of conscience that they must perform acts they find morally abhorrent, such as aiding in the dissection of unborn babies, or the manufacture and sale of human embryonic products. If the government can tell you that your conscience is subservient to their authority, they have made themselves out to be God. But the mantle of such authority does not suit them, and we can never let them rest easy in their delusional self deification.

The end result? There are moments when you have to put it all on the line. The Manhattan Declaration sets it out, and declares a threshold beyond which we will not be pushed, no matter how much paper Washington generates. The last two paragraphs set the tone for the coming confrontation:

“…Through the centuries, Christianity has taught that civil disobedience is not only permitted, but sometimes required. There is no more eloquent defense of the rights and duties of religious conscience than the one offered by Martin Luther King, Jr., in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Writing from an explicitly Christian perspective, and citing Christian writers such as Augustine and Aquinas, King taught that just laws elevate and ennoble human beings because they are rooted in the moral law whose ultimate source is God Himself. Unjust laws degrade human beings. Inasmuch as they can claim no authority beyond sheer human will, they lack any power to bind in conscience. King’s willingness to go to jail, rather than comply with legal injustice, was exemplary and inspiring.

“Because we honor justice and the common good, we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family. We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God’s.”

Amen.

And yes, I signed. Electronically, of course.