More than 150 prominent Christian leaders signed the Manhattan Declaration this last Friday, including many big name Catholic bishops. Reading through the document, all I can say is: "BOOM!" A large caliber shell has been fired across the bow of B.O.'s pro-abortion/anti-family agenda.
What I find most appealing is that the language of the document is not USCCB bureaucrat-ese. It's plain, hard-ball You Shall Not Pass words of defiance.
What I find most appealing is that the language of the document is not USCCB bureaucrat-ese. It's plain, hard-ball You Shall Not Pass words of defiance.
Excerpts from the declaration include:
"We are Christians who have joined together across historic lines of ecclesial differences to affirm our right -- and, more importantly, to embrace our obligation -- to speak and act in defense of these truths. We pledge to each other, and to our fellow believers, that no power on earth, be it cultural or political, will intimidate us into silence or acquiescence."
"We are Christians who have joined together across historic lines of ecclesial differences to affirm our right -- and, more importantly, to embrace our obligation -- to speak and act in defense of these truths. We pledge to each other, and to our fellow believers, that no power on earth, be it cultural or political, will intimidate us into silence or acquiescence."
"We recognize the duty to comply with laws whether we happen to like them or not, unless the laws are gravely unjust or require those subject to them to do something unjust or otherwise immoral."
"…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 marriage or the equivalent or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family."
You can read the whole thing here. My only criticism: too long. Most people won't take the time to read it. But the excerpts above are typical.
Expect the following words and phrases to be used by the Left to characterize this document: "not helpful," "divisive," "separation of Church and State," "tax-exempt status," "narrow," "closed-minded hierarchy," "closes dialogue," "outside the mainstream," "failure to move forward," and other assorted euphemisms used in the rhetoric of anti-Christian bigotry by our Cultural & Intellectual Betters.
"…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 marriage or the equivalent or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family."
You can read the whole thing here. My only criticism: too long. Most people won't take the time to read it. But the excerpts above are typical.
Expect the following words and phrases to be used by the Left to characterize this document: "not helpful," "divisive," "separation of Church and State," "tax-exempt status," "narrow," "closed-minded hierarchy," "closes dialogue," "outside the mainstream," "failure to move forward," and other assorted euphemisms used in the rhetoric of anti-Christian bigotry by our Cultural & Intellectual Betters.
Maybe we should agitate the signers to allow regular Christian folks sign it too.
* "Gettin' buck" is slang for "preparing to fight." I may be showing my age here. This was popular not too long ago. There's probably a more recent slang-term, but it serves well enough.
There's a way to sign it online, if you go to the manhattandeclaration.org site. I'm not sure how this will be presented, though.
ReplyDeleteJust one turdchaser's opinion: I think this will be answered soon after the passage of the healthcare "reform" bill. The proponents of the Culture of Death will wait that long so as not to queer the deal (showing MY age, maybe). But they'll take note of this for later action.
ReplyDeleteBoth sides are on a collision course and there'll be no quiet, peaceful solution.