Manhattan Declaration
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The Manhattan Declaration is a manifesto issued in November 2009 by Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox leaders calling for Christians to re-affirm their support for the pro-life movement, and opposition to same-sex marriage. Notably, the manifesto calls for civil disobedience to laws affirming the right to abortion and same-sex marriage.
The drafting committee who wrote the manifesto includes Chuck Colson.
The signatories represent leaders from almost every branch of American Christianity, except for Mormons who are conspicuously missing from the list.[1]
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[edit] Pseudohistory and other choice quotes from the manifesto
"After the barbarian tribes overran Europe, Christian monasteries preserved not only the Bible but also the literature and art of Western culture." Dubious framing here, given that Europe was a Catholic theocracy during that time.
"In Europe, Christians challenged the divine claims of kings and successfully fought to establish the rule of law and balance of governmental powers, which made modern democracy possible." Really? Conspicuously, France—the first European power to remove kings and emperors from their system of rule—did not do so until after the United States. To make matters worse, when the republic was declared, it was soon taken over by an emperor, then a king, then by the same emperor for a bit, then the same king again, then another king, yet another king, and finally another emperor before settling for a republic in 1870. In fact, most European states did not become free from rule by a royal elite until after World War I. Greece as a prime example of a European state gaining its independence prior to World War I, from the Ottoman empire, only to be ruled by a local monarch, rather than a democratic republic.
"The great civil rights crusades of the 1950s and 60s were led by Christians claiming the Scriptures and asserting the glory of the image of God in every human being regardless of race, religion, age or class." Yes, of course, people like Malcolm X. Meanwhile, good fundamentalist Christians were denouncing the Rev. Martin Luther King as a Communist and New Left students in SNCC as outside agitators.
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- What was the home page of the official website.
- The Religious Right’s “Manhattan Declaration” Is Vile, Silly, Useful