Manhattan Declaration

Christians: Affirm That Same-Sex Relationships Are Not Inherently Immoral

John Shore | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Religion and Sexuality, Gay Christians, Manhattan Declaration, LGBT Christians, Evangelicals, change.org, Same-Sex Marriage, Religion News

This is an election year. If a petition calling upon Christians to affirm LGBTQ people is signed by hundreds of thousands of Christians, then the entire conversation around the gay issue changes.

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'Traditional Marriage' Declaration Seeks More Christian Signatures

Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Robert George, Marriage, Traditional Marriage, Manhattan Declaration, Chuck-Colson-Manhattan-Declaration, Gay Marriage, Religion News

By Bruce Nolan Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Nearly 200 pastors, policymakers and other New Orleans-area Christians were urged to sign a...

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'Anti-Gay' App Removed From Apple App Store

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Manhattan Declaration, a controversial app condemning gay marriage, sparked outrage when Apple approved the app for inclusion in its App Store, fi...

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Apple-Approved 'Anti-Gay' iPhone App Sparks Outrage

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: The Manhattan Declaration app has been removed from Apple's App Store. As PinkNews reported, Apple seems to have pulled the controversial a...

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Kagan, Gays, and the Bogus Right Wing Ideas Factory

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ethics and Public Policy Center, Stanley Kurtz, Peter Sprigg, Supreme Court Nomination, Obama, Right Wing, Family Research Council, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gays in the Military, Gay Rights, Robert George, Manhattan Declaration, James Bowman, Rick Santorum, Ed Whelan, Elena Kagan, Politics News

As Elena Kagan has emerged a front-runner for President Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court, the right wing's opposition playbook has not been updated in decades. But the world has changed around it.

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Do We Really Want America to Be a Christian Iran?

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manhattan Declaration, Christofascism, Christo-Fascism, Reconstructionism, Chuch Colson, Chuck Colson Manhattan Declaration, Religion News

"Godly lives" is what the mullahs of Iran want everyone to live. It's the Taliban's big plan. And it's what the Manhattan Declaration authors have tucked up their sleeves.

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Manhattan Declaration -- Who Are They Kidding?

Fred Karger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Mormon Church, National Organization for Marriage, New York Times, Fred Karger, Catholic Bishops, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Maggie Gallagher, California, Question 1 in Maine, Same-Sex Marriage, Manhattan-Declaration, Gay Rights, Maine Gay Marriage, LGBT Rights, Politics News

Let's hope the Mormon leadership is truly softening its position on the issue of gay rights. It has been a huge PR nightmare for the Church and one that divides so many Mormon families.

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The Gay Community's Pope Problem

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Washington Archdiocese, Thomas Tobin, Truth Wins Out, Patrick Kennedy, Brazil, Pope Benedict XVI, Wayne Besen, Bishop Richard Williamson, Chuck Colson, Barack Obama, Vatican, HIV/AIDS, John Kerry, LGBT Rights, Manhattan Declaration, Gay Marriage, Politics News

It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an implacable foe of basic rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

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Christian Leaders Scapegoat Gays on Marriage

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slippery Slope, Religious Right, Christian Hypocrisy, Manhattan Declaration, Mike Huckabee, Gay Marriage, Politics News

In the new, anti-gay "Manhattan Declaration" scores of Christian signatories reveal the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of their obsessive persecution of gay people.

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Gay Rights and the Natural Law Farce

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Freud, Robert George, Princeton University, Natural Law, National Organization for Marriage, New York Times Magazine, Rationality, Palm Center, Thomas Jefferson, Morality, Manhattan Declaration, James Madison Program, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Yes Robert George, reason plays a role in deciding natural rights. But if we're going to use reason, let's use real reason, and not lean on our ivy-league credentials to pass off homophobia as genuine rationality.

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