states supreme court and as a result of what was about to take ways expected by the end of june keith fournier will speak after me, a christian catholic, and me it an evangelical christian, began to codraft this document is called the marriage pledge and we have circulated that among different leaders. manhattan declaration has over half a million signers and this one here has just been posted online and hundreds more are signing this. >> orthodox christians, jews, leaders from all around this country and from various perspectives that do not agree on certain theological issues but unified in this area. that is that marriage is the union of a man and woman and on our watch we will not idly allow them to be deconstructed. whenever it happens, by experience and history we have known that the government uses the power to collide with religious freedom. that is what happened in our country, it's happened around the world and what will happen when we cross the line. we have jewish leaders are to come together and unify around this one issue. but we also have a copy of this here to pass out. we conf

as a result of what it's about to take place with the decision of the institute, keith fournier who will speak after me, a christian catholic, me, an evangelical christian began to co-draft this document called the marriage pledge and we have circulated that among different leaders in manhattan declaration has over half a million diners. -- half a million signers. this one here has just been posted online an everyday hundreds and hundreds more are signing this. we brought leaders together first and with leaders from a wide good of evangelicals, various protestant denominations orthodox christians, jewish, leaders all around the country from various perspectives they don't agree on theological issues that they are unified in this one area and that is marriage as the union of a man woman and on our watch we will not idly allow that to be deconstructed because whenever it happens we by experience and history have known the government uses the police power. it happens around the world and it is what will happen if we cross this line. the leaders as diverse as franklin graham and other orthod

as a result of what it's about to take place with the decision of the institute, keith fournier who will speak after me, a christian catholic, me, an evangelical christian began to protract this document called the marriage pledge and we have circulated that among different leaders in manhattan declaration has over half a million diners. this one here has just been posted online an everyday hundreds and hundreds more are signing this. we brought leaders together first and with leaders from a wide good of evangelicals, various protestant denominations orthodox christians, jewish, leaders all around the country from various perspectives they don't agree on theological issues that they are unified in this one area and that is marriage as the union of a man woman and on our watch we will not readily allow that to be deconstructed because whenever it happens we by experience and history have known the government uses the police power. it happens around the world and it is what will happen if we cross this line. the leaders as diverse as franklin graham and other orthodox clergy's entries, jew

keith and jan. and ew jackson. fournier. founder of common good foundation and common good alliance much and the catholic cherjy men. i am on the path to theology in the church it is mayon to to be apart this pledge. in fact pastor rick. i do not know if dropping it was intentional it. is good optics. i am standing with thousands. in fact with millions and standing in a 2000-year history of the christian church and reaching beyond that going all the way back to the beginning of creation itself. in defending marriage. to use the philosophical term. between one man and one woman intended for life. and open to life. and informative of family. and family is the first society but the school. the first church. the first government it's the first economy. the first mediating association. the entire social order is built on the family. i stand fully within the tradition of my church and in fact the classical christian tradition in saying that this is not just a religious position that i am spouzing but the written natural moral law