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Monday 30 November 2009

…the Declaration does claim that abortion, homosexuality and the “religious freedom” to enforce the criminalization of both are the most important moral issues of our time. The Declaration exists to say precisely that. It’s entire purpose and intent is to “declare” that these three things stand above and apart from any other issues — to declare that they must not be viewed “in the context of longstanding Christian concern for combating poverty” or the context of anything else. The whole point of this document was to threaten younger evangelicals who were perceived as getting a bit wobbly in their opposition to homosexuality. Evangelical Christians under 30 just don’t seem to see that as a paramount moral concern — and they can’t see how gay couples wanting to marry could possibly be viewed as more morally significant than the fact that, by the time these younger evangelicals get to be Colson’s age, Bangladesh will be under water. The Manhattan Declaration was created to threaten these younger evangelicals to get back in line with the precise priorities of their elders. Get back in line or be cut off. slacktivist

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