\u201cIt is a perfect time for schools to help students connect the dots between Martin Luther King\u2019s fight for civil rights and the freedom of religious expression in America. Dr. King\u2019s call for justice was guided by his religious convictions and the liberty to act on those convictions.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve heard me say often on BreakPoint that religious freedom is coming under increasing assault in this country. It\u2019s one reason I and others drafted and signed the Manhattan Declaration, which has been signed by half a million people. The Declaration specifically cites Dr. King\u2019s magnificent \u2018Letter From a Birmingham Jail,\u2019 in which he taught that \u2018a just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God.\u2019 An unjust law, however, \u2018is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law,\u2019 and therefore has no binding power over human conscience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n From BreakPoint with Chuck Colson, a radio ministry of Prison Fellowship Ministries January 15, 2012. Colson, a central figure in the Watergate scandal, turned his life around and became an evangelical Christian leader and national figure. He died April 21, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIt is a perfect time for schools to help students connect the dots between Martin Luther King\u2019s fight for civil rights and the freedom of religious expression in America. Dr. King\u2019s call for justice was guided by his religious convictions and the liberty to act on those convictions. You\u2019ve heard me say often on BreakPoint<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-6216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-may-june-2013","tag-may-june-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}