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By Julianne LaJeunesse - University of New Mexico/Talk Radio News Service

On Friday Christian leaders from across the country unveiled the Manhattan Declaration, which “call[s] upon our fellow citizens, believers and non-believers alike” to protect human life, marriage, and religious liberty, which the nearly 150 signatories say, is becoming increasingly vulnerable.

“The three issues that we’re talking about today do not constitute the entirety of Christian moral concern,” said Beeson Divinity School professor Timothy George, who spoke at the press conference. “They are threshold issues, on which everything else that we do is related. Our concern for the poor, for peacemaking in our world, for the care of creation, our concern for all of the issues of nurturing children into faith...”

The Manhattan Declaration, according to the speakers, was not intended to align with the House and Senate health care bills, and was described as being nonpolitical. However, the document does say that the signatories will commit “fully no matter what pressures are brought upon us and our institutions to abandon or compromise them” in their effort to defend human life, marriage, and religious liberty.