The Manhattan Declaration
The Manhattan Declaration, self-described as “a call to Christian conscience,” released last year and seeking to reach 1 million signatures, accuses liberals of being eugenicists, ie: Nazis. It is gathering signatures of religious right leaders and urging them to disregard the law.
The Manhattan Declaration was conceived by 3 males: Robert George, Timothy George and Chuck Colson—all prominent around the ‘religious right-wing’ political scene inside the United States. The earliest draft from the document was presented to “various Catholic, Evangelical, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican leaders who had been specially admired…for their public witness on behalf of justice, human rights, and the typical good they had been invited to join in shaping the Manhattan Declaration.” The aim with the document is to provide a statement of a conservative method to particular social issues close to which it was felt that “Christians” of all stripes could unite inside a concerted work to resist modern cultural trends. The specific problems addressed are: the sanctity of human life; marriage; and religious liberty.
“Support for The Manhattan Declaration would not only contradict the stance I have taken since long before the original Evangelicals and Catholics Together” document was issued; it would also tacitly relegate the very essence of gospel truth to the level of a secondary issue. That is the wrong way—perhaps the very worst way—for evangelicals to address the moral and political crises of our time. Anything that silences, sidelines, or relegates the gospel to secondary status is antithetical to the principles we affirm when we call ourselves evangelicals”said John MacArthur
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