For almost 10 years, I’ve urged readers to sign the Manhattan Declaration. I won’t give a “5-star rating” to any candidate for office unless they’ve signed it. It’s a powerful statement about the intersection of faith and politics. Its purpose is to unite Christians before core Biblical principles to transform our government and society. More than 550,000 theologians, church leaders and ordinary Christians have signed it. It covers three key issues:

1. The Sanctity of Life. A culture of death inevitably cheapens life in all its stages and conditions by promoting the belief that lives that are imperfect, immature or inconvenient are of no value … and therefore dischargeable.
2. Dignity of Marriage. Marriage is the union of one man and one woman. Marriage is the first institution of human society – indeed it is the institution of which all other human institutions have their foundation.
3. Freedom of Religion. No one should be compelled to embrace any religion against his will, nor should persons of faith be forbidden to worship God according to the dictates of conscience or to express freely and publicly their deeply held religious convictions.

You can read the declaration here. You can sign it here. What do you think? Email me at craig@electionforum.org Here are the rest of this week’s articles:

• Christian Persecution: What I Learned at the State Department’s Historic World Conference – that the Media Ignored
• Shocking and Disturbing: Unbelievably Brutal Human Organ Harvesting in China
• What Congressman Rand Paul (R-KY) Said to Me about the Deep State
• What You Won’t See in the Media about How God is Moving in the Lives of Youth Today [Video]