{"id":5850,"date":"2012-01-20T17:09:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T22:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2015-06-30T18:49:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T22:49:38","slug":"timothy-george-courageously-preaches-to-choir-milks-applause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/01\/20\/timothy-george-courageously-preaches-to-choir-milks-applause\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy George courageously preaches to choir, milks applause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Alan Bean of Friends of Justice<\/a> has a fine rant on Manhattan Declaration co-author Timothy George\u2019s recent attempt to pretend to himself and others that he\u2019s in the vanguard of some courageous and righteous movement.<\/p>\n

Bean asks: \u201cDoes it take courage to be pro-life and anti-gay in Baptist Alabama?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

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This is NOT Timothy George.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Timothy George stirred a bit of excitement in 2009, when, in collaboration with luminaries like Charles Colson, he published a Manhattan Declaration, subtitled as \u201ca call of Christian conscience.\u201d With a prison reformer like Colson on board, you might expect the declaration to touch, however briefly, on the shame of mass incarceration. But no, the only topics deemed worthy of discussion were (you guessed it) abortion, gay marriage, and the purported persecution of the American Church.<\/p>\n

Now, professor George is claiming that the 500,000 signatories to his bold confession are akin to the German churchmen who signed the Barmen Declaration opposing Hitler in the darkest days of the Third Reich.<\/p>\n

Pardon me if I wince in embarrassment. \u2026 This takes courage?<\/p>\n

\u2026 What would happen if Timothy George decided, following a crisis of conscience, that he was in favor of gay rights?<\/p>\n

You know what would happen. He would lose his job before nightfall.<\/p>\n

What happens when Timothy George portrays \u201cthe homosexual agenda\u201d as a threat to heterosexual agenda? A standing ovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don\u2019t think George has to worry about such a crisis of conscience. The silly man is pretending he\u2019s Bonhoeffer<\/a> and that everyone who disagrees with him must be you-know-who. People who delude themselves with that kind of self-congratulatory nonsense are shouting too loudly to hear whatever their conscience might be screaming.<\/p>\n

See earlier:<\/p>\n