Manhattan Document – The Manhattan Declaration

Last Friday on November 20, 2009 a group of famous leaders and scholars unveiled a manifesto declared document opposition to current and future laws infringing upon the sanctity of life, marriage, faith, and liberty. This document is “The Manhattan Declaration”. This declaration was held at the national press club in Washington. To announce historic document a dozen evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox leaders faced the microphones. This declaration was signed by over 140 leaders that represent every branch of American Christianity.

Around 4,700 words are written in the document called “The Manhattan Declaration”. This document is the call of Christian principles. It is also a message to social authorities. This declaration was on the basis of common themes from political and social debates over the health care renovate and gay marriage battles. The Declaration begins by reminding readers that for 2,000 years. The witness has taken various forms like- public statement, seeking justice, resisting repression, and reaching out to the poor, oppressed, and suffering.

The document laid out the groups’ arguments. The arguments were against anti-life, anti-family, and anti-religious public policy as contravening “foundational principles of justice. The Christians have spoken out in the past and found the especially truths:

• Sanctity of human life
  
• The institution of marriage
  
• Religious freedom

These truths are opening to human self-respect. These are also comfortable for society, they are strong and fixed. This document declares that abortions must provide at taxpayer expense. The result of this bipartisan involvement is a more and more common belief that “lives that are imperfect, young, or inconvenient are discardable.”

Who signed the Manhattan Declaration Document?

• Four Touchstone senior editors: Robert P. George, James Kushiner, Russell D. Moore, and Patrick Henry Reardon.
• The major drafters of the declaration were Robert George, Charles Colson, and Timothy George.
• In addition to many Roman Catholic and (7) Orthodox signers, there are Baptists, Anglicans, Methodists, Presbyterian/Reformed, Church of God in Christ, and many others.
• 46 Leaders of various ministries, associations, policy institutes and think tanks: e.g. Prison Fellowship Ministries, National Association of Evangelicals, Family Research Council, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Alliance Defense Fund, e.g. Charles Colson, Rav Zacharias, Maggie Gallagher, Ron Sider.
• 22 Bishops signed, including:
  14 Roman Catholic Bishops Chaput, Cordileone, Dolan, Kurtz, Madia, Malone, Myers, Nuamann, Nienstedt, Olmsted, Rigali, Sheridan, Wuerl, and Zubik
• 2 Eastern Orthodox Bishops: Metropolitan Jonah (OCA) and Bishop Basil (Antiochian)
• Heads (20) and faculty members (19) of Seminaries, Colleges and Universities: e.g. Albert Mohler, David Dockery, Robert Sloan, Duane Litfin, J. I. Packer, Tom Oden, Peter Kreeft, Cornelius Plantinga.

For more details of The Manhattan Declaration click here.

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