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Last week Apple deleted an app for the Manhattan Declaration, a document whose signers pledge to disobey any law protecting LGBT Americans from discrimination. The Family Research Council, an SPLC-certified hate group, is leading a petition campaign calling for Apple to restore the app. Today Christianist “humorist” Stuart Sheppard takes on the issue. (Via – Good As You)

After complaints from LGBT activists, a few days ago Apple quietly removed an iPhone app for the Manhattan Declaration, whose signers vow to disobey all laws granting rights to gay Americans. Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council hate group, is furious. Silencing opposition has become a winning strategy for the Left because fewer people seem willing to speak …

“When these pastors would complete their sermons, they would take off their black robes — they preached in vestments at those times – and underneath that would be the attire of military. They would pick up a musket and ask: ‘Who’s going to go fight with me?’ And so the revolutionary armies during that time came from pastors leading the …

Chuck Colson is ever so pissed at Christians who refuse the sign his Manhattan Declaration, which promises civil disobedience to all LGBT rights laws. Nearly half a million bigots have signed on as of today.

Right Wing Watch tips us to Rev. Jim Garlow and Rev. James Robison calling for a 40-day fast in advance of the midterm elections so that Jeebus will put anti-gay candidates in office. Robison: “I’ve signed the Manhattan Declaration and I would have signed it in my blood.” You might recall Garlow’s 2008 claim that “same-sex marriage is worse than …

The creators of the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, whose signers vow to disobey all LGBT rights laws, today announced that a British counterpart has been launched. From the Westminster Declaration: We pledge to support marriage – the lifelong covenantal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife. We believe it is divinely ordained, the only context for sexual …

By a general voice vote, the Kentucky House of Representatives yesterday adopted a resolution expressing support for the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, which calls for the disobedience of all LGBT rights laws. Kentucky already has among the most repressive of anti-gay laws, including a constitutional DOMA and a legislative ban on the recognition of same-sex unions. (Via – Good As You)

After a few weeks of relative quiet, the Manhattan Declaration, whose signers vow to disobey LGBT rights laws, is getting renewed attention. “We are following a long line of Christians who obey God over man.” (Via – Good As You)

The authors of the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, which calls for the disobedience of any laws granting LGBT rights, want to increase its number of signatories from 370,000 to one million. Working to help them reach that noble goal are Catholic archbishops. Via press release: Cardinal Rigali of Philadelphia (right), Archbishop Wuerl of Washington, DC (left), Archbishop Dolan of New York …

In response to the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, a document calling for the disobedience of LGBT rights laws and co-signed by hundreds of religious leaders, comes The Affirmation Declaration, which calls for pro-LGBT people of faith to sign on as supporters of civil equality. An excerpt from the just-posted document: We assert that the pain brought upon our GLBTI brethren in …

In an editorial published yesterday, the Los Angeles Times strongly condemned the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, calling it “irresponsible and dangerous” and warning that the document may embolden anti-abortion terrorists. The impression left is that the legal environment in which churches must operate is reminiscent of the Roman Empire that threw Christians to the lions. Never mind that advocates of same-sex …

Calling it a “historic document,” Mike Huckabee is asking his viewers to sign the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, which calls on Christians to disobey laws that protect LGBT people from discrimination. The DeMoss Group is hosting the declaration online and has the complete list of right wingers, clergy, wingnuts, and hate group leaders that have signed.

Yesterday I posted that the DeMoss Group, the powerful Christian right publicity firm hired to promote the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, had also been hired to work on the 2008 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney. I wrote the post after finding numerous accountings of DeMoss’ work on behalf of Mittney. Today DeMoss Group founder Mark DeMoss writes to call me a …

The PR firm hired to promote The Manhattan Declaration, a vow of disobedience to gay rights laws signed by about 150 Christian leaders, is the DeMoss Group, the wingnut outfit hired by Mitt Romney for his 2008 presidential campaign. From their about page: The DeMoss Group is the nation’s first and largest public relations agency exclusively serving Christian leaders, organizations …

Good As You has posted the complete text of The Manhattan Declaration, the anti-gay screed issued today by a pan-denominational group of Christian clergy that vows disobedience of laws that protect gays from discrimination. Excerpt titles are mine. The Threat- We are Christians who have joined together across historic lines of ecclesial differences to affirm our right—and, more importantly, to …