Time will turn a cinder-block-fence into a razor blade.

Religious Leaders Call for Civil Disobedience if Laws Don’t Respect Faith

I can't help but applaud the Catholic Bishops for their efforts on the Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience.
See also the petition: manhattandeclaration.org.

I would also like to suggest the end of usury. Compound interest has a way of destroying people and nations at the benefit of a small group. If it were not for the money usurped from the average man and woman over the last hundred years into this small group, they would not have had the power to wage a cultural suicidal campaign on all the very things the Manhattan Deceleration points out. I don't have to name people. Most of us know they are the ones who own the private banking institutions such as the Federal Reserve, International Monetary Fund,and the World Bank.

The 'war' on Muslim nations sponsored by these people and fed to the masses as some sort of need for 'freedom and democracy' is a scam.These nations do not condone nor practice usury. While no nation is perfect, it is clear that the private banking elite want to bring these people into their "New World Order" Usury-Banking-Slave-Debt-System just like they have done to most of the Western Nations.

How far we have lost our way when we allow usury on the most important and necessary of all purchases in life - a home. A nation the has forgotten its history is a conquered nation and a people that refuses to embrace historical facts to their advantage is a conquered people.

Clearly we should end all forms of usury and amend the Manhattan Declaration to include a clause on usury. I hope one day it or a similar declaration will.

A simple history on usury can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury:

Usury (in the original sense of any interest) was at times denounced by a number of religious leaders and philosophers in the ancient world,including Plato,Aristotle,Cato, Cicero, Seneca,^[9]Plutarch,^{[citation needed]} Aquinas,^[10]Muhammad,^[11]Moses,^{[citation needed]} Philo^{[citation needed]} and Gautama Buddha^{[citation needed]}.^[12]

For example, Cato in his De Re Rustica said:

"And what do you think of usury?" — "What do you think of murder?"

A search for usury in the King James version brings up the following:

Ex 22:25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee,thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

Lev 25:36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God;that thy brother may live with thee.

Lev 25:37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

Deut 23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

Deut 23:20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Neh 5:7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

Neh 5:10 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

Ps 15:5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent.  He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

Prov 28:8 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Isa 24:2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

Jer 15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth!  I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Ezek 18:8 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

Ezek 18:13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live?  he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations;he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

Ezek 18:17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

Ezek 22:12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

Mt 25:27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

Lk 19:23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?