I am saddened by RC, and the others for not signing; I did sign it.
In the words of Ben Franklin as he signed the Declaration of Independence, “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
Or in the words of Pastor Martin Niemoller (1945),
“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
Why would a pastor to go against his conviction to sign an ecumenical document?
“To go against conscience is neither right nor safe...” Luther
“Let every man be persuaded in his own mind...” Romans 14:3