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In a move seeking to mobilize millions to stand in solidarity for religious freedom, defend marriage, and promote the protection of all human life, two longtime human rights and constitutional lawyers, Mat Staver and Keith Fournier, announced a formal collaboration for the culture on Friday, October 10, 2014. 

Last year, Fournier and Staver coauthored and jointly released a Marriage Solidarity Statement. Christian leaders from across the confessional spectrum. They are currently completing a similar joint statement entitled “The First Freedom: Defending the Foundation of the Free Exercise of Religion” which will be released by Christmas.

The appointment of Fournier as Special Counsel to Liberty Counsel and announcement of formal collaboration of these two leaders arises out of their shared concern that the erosion of religious freedom threatens the sources of all our liberties. 

Mat Staver is the Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel and also serves as Chairman of Liberty Counsel Action. Keith Fournier is Founder and Chairman of Common Good Foundation and Common Good Alliance, as well as the Editor in Chief of Catholic Online.   

This announcement of a Formal Collaboration for the Culture picks up where the marriage statement left off. The two Christian leaders issued the following statement on making the announcement:

Our work together over the years has bound us together as brothers in the Lord. It has also made us realize that the urgency of the times in which we live demands that we find new ways of standing together to defend the foundations of freedom upon which the American Experiment in ordered liberty stands. 

These are urgent times, but these are our times. As Christians, we believe we were born and born again for this hour. As American citizens, we know that the birth certificate of this nation was called a Declaration of Independence because it declared independence from an unjust civil ruler. It did not declare independence from a just God.  

In launching this collaboration for the culture, we reaffirm the words of the American Founders and make them our own. There are still self-evident truths and unalienable rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With the Founders, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor to defend them. 

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