The Manhattan Declaration and the 40 day fast for America.
I
found this while reading through reader comments at Brietbart about
the AFP commercial I linked to in the post below. The responder did not
include any links, so, since Google is my friend, I found a bunch of
posts about the 40 day fast for America.
I followed the link to the "Pray and A.C.T." page at the Renewing American Leadership (ReAL) website. It describes the why and how of the fast. It also directs you to the Pray and A.C.T. website. as of today, the link fails, returning a "Server Not Found" error. I'll poke into that when I'm done here...
The "ACT" part of the page asks that you go to the Manhattan Declaration webite, and read and sign it. That link goes to the web page. Here is a link to the declaration as a .PDF.
The
declaration is about 4,700 words long, so get comfortable. It is a
clear and concise defense of life, marriage, and religious liberty from a
Christian moral perspective. Two thinks I liked the most about it:
first, it strongly and clearly emphasizes human free will, and the
fundamental right and freedom to follow one's own conscience. (I
inferred that one might add "well informed" as a state of said
conscience. Or that could just be the Ghosts of Jesuits Past.) Second, was the mini-lesson on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s from the Birmingham jail: "...citing Christian writers such as Augustine and Aquinas, King taught that
just laws elevate and ennoble human beings because they are rooted in
the moral law whose ultimate source is God Himself. Unjust laws degrade
human beings. Inasmuch as they can claim no authority beyond sheer human
will, they lack any power to bind in conscience. King's willingness to
go to jail, rather than comply with legal injustice, was exemplary and
inspiring."
Read the whole thing. Sign it if you feel so moved. Fast if you feel so moved. And act, if you feel so moved.
Pax Vobiscum.
(Originally posted at Leelu's Place)
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