I read with interest a new initiative, lead in part by Focus on the Family, called the Manhattan Declaration. Comments?
The Manhattan Declaration ... discuss
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Woven
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1.the sanctity of human life
"Thou shalt not murder"
2.the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife
" Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. " "And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."
3.the rights of conscience and religious liberty.
" Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
"Thou shalt not murder"
2.the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife
" Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. " "And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."
3.the rights of conscience and religious liberty.
" Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Berstromme
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"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."
The question now before us, individually and as a Christian Community of Faith, is whether or not we will live up to the last paragraph of the declaration. Will we act? Will we develop our moral conscience sufficiently to understand that we cannot and should not compromise these underlying truths as we participate in our political processes and interact with our fellow citizens in the public square?
The question now before us, individually and as a Christian Community of Faith, is whether or not we will live up to the last paragraph of the declaration. Will we act? Will we develop our moral conscience sufficiently to understand that we cannot and should not compromise these underlying truths as we participate in our political processes and interact with our fellow citizens in the public square?