Recently, a document was released (drafted in part by Chuck Colson, Robert George and Timothy George) called the Manhattan Declaration. This document has already been signed by nearly 200,000 people. Please read the Manhattan Declaration and determine whether or not you could in good conscience sign this document. Of the signers, many are well known to many of us and may be quite surprising and even disappointing.

To give you an idea of what this document says here is a concluding statement from the Declaration:
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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.

Sound good? So what is there here that might cause a Christian some consternation. Below are links to web sites of some people who have chosen to NOT sign it with their reasons why.

David Wheaton
James White
Further thoughts from James White
John MacArthur
Alistair Begg
Tim Challies

I would be interested to hear your response to this and reasons why you would or would not sign the document.




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