Why I Will Not Sign the Manhattan Declaration

On November 20 Charles Colson and his ecumenical friends released the "Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience."1 Colson and his friends have invited Christians "to [join] together across historic lines of ecclesiastical differences to affirm our right -- and more importantly, to embrace our obligation -- to speak and act in defense" of three truths: 1) the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of every human being as a creature fashioned in the very image of God, possessing...