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  • Whereas, the Board-approved Ends for the Association call on the administration to move our Association toward a future in which “UU congregations and communities are intentionally inclusive, multicultural, and multigenerational”; and Whereas, Moderator Gini Courter, in her report, and Mel...
    2013 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Racial Justice
  • WHEREAS, programs such as the “War on Drugs” and practices such as “Stop and Frisk” are actively used by police to harass and oppress communities of color; WHEREAS, Michelle Alexander, at the 2012 UUA General Assembly said, “We use our criminal justice system to label people of color...
    2013 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Children & Youth Reproductive Justice, Criminal Justice, Due Process & Civil Liberties, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Religious & Civil Liberties, Racial Justice
  • BECAUSE the Sources of Unitarian Universalism counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science; BECAUSE Unitarian Universalist congregations covenant, in their Seventh Principle, to respect the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part, and member congregation...
    2013 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Climate & Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Energy Justice, Socially Responsible Investing
  • BECAUSE Unitarian Universalists believe in the inherent worth and dignity of every human person, and in the use of the democratic process in society at large, and because approval of the 2011 AIW opposing Citizens United paved the way for the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) to take the...
    2013 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Corporate Responsibility, Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Election Reform
  • A belief in “the inherent worth and dignity of every person” is core to Unitarian Universalism: every person, no exceptions. As religious people, our Principles call us to acknowledge the immigrant experience and to affirm and promote the flourishing of the human family. Our Sources “challenge...
    2013 | Statement of Conscience
    Tagged as: International Human Rights & Justice, Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Economic Justice, Reproductive Health, Immigration, Racial Justice