This isn't your usual Terp blog post. I think you'll find it a little more serious than what you're used to, a little more lengthy, and lacking of pictures. I hope that won't deter you from reading further. I think many of you share the same faith and convictions as us and will find the paragraphs below powerful and compelling.
How this blog post came about
My boss asked me to fill in for her this week while she was on vacation. I spent the week working in Shoreline (just north of Seattle) at our region headquarters office. Rather than commute between Bellingham and Shoreline every day, I house sat for my boss, which was a 10-minute commute instead of 90 minutes. Since I was on my own in the evenings, I got together with friends in Bellevue to hang out. Now, normally you wouldn't catch me listening to talk radio in the car, but that's exactly what I was doing Monday night in the car after having spent the evening with friends. I'm thinking it was a God thing because of what the program was about. I ended up listening to a 30-minute segment of Focus on the Family by James Dobson. At the end of the show I was left feeling convicted and compelled. It was about the state of our society and what Christians can do to make a difference.
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From their news release
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 20, 2009 — Today a group of prominent Christian clergy, ministry leaders and scholars released the Manhattan Declaration, which addresses the sanctity of life, traditional marriage and religious liberty. The 4,700-word declaration issues a clarion call to Christians to adhere to their convictions and informs civil authorities that the signers will not—under any circumstance—abandon their Christian consciences. Drafted by Dr. Robert George, Dr. Timothy George and Chuck Colson and signed by more than 150 Orthodox, Catholic and evangelical Christian leaders.
“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.”
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I highly recommend you take the time to read the seven-page declaration,
http://manhattandeclaration.org
and, if you feel so compelled, sign the declaration.Did you know
As the current administration's health care package stands, we will all pay taxes that will directly fund and support abortion clinics. This is extremely alarming.
Listen to the Focus on the Family podcast - It's titled "A Manifesto for Righteousness" and was broadcast on 11/23/2009. You won't regret it.
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