Plenary IV
June 26, 2010
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08:30:02:10    >> GOOD MORNING, UNITARIAN
08:33:17:15    UNIVERSALISTS.
08:33:18:12    >> GOOD MORNING!
08:33:19:18    >> OH, WOW.
08:33:22:15    I BET WHEN WE'RE IN ORDER WE
08:33:24:04    CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT.
08:33:25:15    GOOD MORNING, UNITARIAN
08:33:26:06    UNIVERSALISTS.
08:33:27:06    >> GOOD MORNING!
08:33:29:01    >> I NOW CALL TO ORDER THE
08:33:32:24    FOURTH PLENARY SESSION OF THE
08:33:34:00    49TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
08:33:35:21    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
08:33:36:10    ASSOCIATION.
08:33:38:24    TO LIGHT OUR CHALICE TODAY,
08:33:40:21    PLEASE BECOME YOUR FRIEND AND
08:33:43:00    MINE, DENNY DAVIDOFF.
08:33:53:03    >> AS GINI LIGHTS THE CHALICE
08:33:56:22    THIS MORNING, I'M GOING TO
08:33:58:06    RECITE THE ELEGANT WORDS OF
08:34:01:06    THE 17TH CENTURY ENGLISH
08:34:03:01    MYSTIC, THOMAS TRAHARN.
08:34:05:24    THIS VERSE TITLED DESIRE WAS A
08:34:09:25    FAVORITE OF MY LATE HUSBAND
08:34:11:18    JERRY, WHO MANY OF US MISS AT
08:34:14:18    GA THIS YEAR.
08:34:19:21    "FOR GIVING ME DESIRE, AN
08:34:22:10    EAGER THIRST, A BURNING ARDENT
08:34:26:06    FIRE, A VIRGIN INFANT FLAME, A
08:34:29:19    LOVE WITH WHICH INTO THE WORLD
08:34:31:16    I CAME AND INWARD HIDDEN
08:34:35:12    HEAVENLY LOVE, WHICH IN MY
08:34:38:01    SOUL DOES WORK AND MOVE AND
08:34:41:03    EVER EVER ME INFLAME WITH
08:34:44:25    RESTLESS LONGING, HEAVENLY
08:34:47:12    AVARICE THAT NEVER COULD BE
08:34:50:06    SATISFIED.
08:34:50:21    THAT DID INCESSANTLY A
08:34:53:15    PARADISE UNKNOWN SUGGEST AND
08:34:56:06    SOMETHING UNDESCRIBED DISCERN
08:35:00:00    AND BEAR ME TO IT.
08:35:03:24    BY THY NAME FOREVER PRAISED BY                         2
08:35:07:00    ME."
08:35:30:27    >> LET ME TELL YOU THE ORDER
08:35:32:06    OF OUR DAY, AS IF I HAVE ANY
08:35:34:01    CONTROL OVER THAT.
08:35:35:12     [ LAUGHTER ]
08:35:35:24    >> I THOUGHT I KNEW THE ORDER
08:35:38:06    OF YESTERDAY.
08:35:40:28     [ LAUGHTER ]
08:35:41:07    >> PERHAPS I SHOULD SIMPLY
08:35:44:12    SAY, LET ME DESCRIBE THE
08:35:46:09    SEQUENCE.
08:35:49:21    WE'RE GOING TO HEAR A REPORT
08:35:51:27    FROM YOUR UUA BOARD OF
08:35:53:25    TRUSTEES AND AN UPDATE ON
08:35:57:00    ARTICLE XV, AND THEN WE WILL
08:35:59:03    RETURN TO A PIECE OF BUSINESS
08:36:00:19    FROM YESTERDAY.
08:36:02:00    AND I'M MAKING THE CALL TO
08:36:03:18    ACTUALLY MOVE THAT A LITTLE
08:36:04:24    LATER, BECAUSE WORD DID NOT
08:36:06:07    ADEQUATELY GET OUT TO PEOPLE
08:36:10:09    PERHAPS THAT WE NEED TO HAVE A
08:36:14:01    RUNOFF VOTE ON OUR PROPOSED
08:36:16:21    CONGREGATIONAL STUDY-ACTION
08:36:18:03    ISSUES.
08:36:19:21    SO WE WILL BE DOING THAT AT
08:36:22:10    ABOUT 9:00, BUT DON'T LEAVE
08:36:24:09    AND COME BACK AT 9:05 OR 9:00
08:36:26:21    AND FIND YOU'VE MISSED IT.
08:36:28:13    IT WILL JUST FOLLOW IN ITS
08:36:30:06    NATURAL ORDER.
08:36:31:09    AND SO WE HAVE CONGREGATIONAL
08:36:37:24    STUDY-ACTION ISSUES TWO AND
08:36:40:03    THREE WERE THE TOP TWO VOTE
08:36:42:00    GETTERS.
08:36:43:13    NEITHER OF THEM CLAIMED A
08:36:44:16    MAJORITY, SO WE WILL BE TAKING
08:36:47:00    A VOTING CARD, YOU KNOW,
08:36:47:27    VOTING CARD VOTE FOLLOWING THE
08:36:49:25    UPDATE ON ARTICLE FIVE, AND
08:36:52:00    JUST BEFORE WE INTRODUCE OUR
08:36:54:27    INTERNATIONAL GUESTS.
08:36:56:13    DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
08:36:59:06    OKAY.
08:36:59:27    GOOD.
08:37:00:15    SO AWAY WE GO.
08:37:03:19    PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE WELCOME
08:37:07:27    THE FOUR MEMBERS OF THE UUA
08:37:09:21    BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE AT-LARGE
08:37:11:28    TRUSTEES WHO ARE ELECTED HERE                          3
08:37:13:24    AT GENERAL ASSEMBLY RATHER
08:37:14:15    THAN BY DISTRICTS TO PROVIDE
08:37:16:18    THE REPORT OF YOUR UUA BOARD.
08:37:19:07    WELCOME THEM.
08:37:21:00     [ APPLAUSE ]
08:37:21:18    >> CHARLIE KING, REVERENDS
08:37:26:24    JEANNE PUPKE AND JOSE
08:37:28:12    BALLESTER AND NICK ALLEN.
08:37:30:07    >> GOOD MORNING.
08:37:37:18    I'M CHARLIE KING, MEMBER FIRST
08:37:42:03    UNITARIAN CONGRESSIONAL
08:37:43:12    SOCIETY OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK,
08:37:44:27    AND ONE OF THE AT-LARGE
08:37:46:16    MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF
08:37:47:13    TRUSTEES.
08:37:50:15    I JUST WANT TO MAKE A BRIEF
08:37:52:28    CERTAINLY COMMENT.
08:37:54:10    I, IN PAST YEARS, IN MAKING
08:37:56:21    THESE REPORTS, I'VE ALWAYS
08:38:01:04    WORN MY COAT AND TIE IN A VERY
08:38:03:06    DIGNIFIED MANNER, BUT BECAUSE
08:38:05:09    OF THE WALK TO LORING PARK
08:38:08:03    LATER THIS MORNING, I'M
08:38:09:09    WEARING MY YELLOW T-SHIRT AND
08:38:11:24    I'M CERTAIN I SPEAK FOR THE
08:38:15:06    BOARD WHEN I SAY WE ARE SO
08:38:19:06    PROUD TODAY AND EVERY DAY TO
08:38:22:01    BE STANDING ON THE SIDE OF
08:38:23:15    LOVE.
08:38:25:06     [ APPLAUSE ]
08:38:25:18    >> THE OTHER AT-LARGE MEMBERS
08:38:34:18    OF THE BOARD ARE HERE ON STAGE
08:38:36:06    WITH ME.
08:38:38:12    OUR POSITIONS, AS GINI SAID,
08:38:41:00    ARE ELECTED EVERY FOUR YEARS
08:38:42:13    BY YOU, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
08:38:43:13    DELEGATES, AND WE JOIN THE
08:38:47:00    MODERATOR, GINI, PRESIDENT
08:38:49:01    PETER MONTHLY ALICE, FINANCIAL
08:38:52:24    ADVISOR DAN BRODY, AND THE 19
08:38:55:28    DISTRICT TRUSTEES AS MEMBERS
08:38:59:27    OF THE BOARD.
08:39:00:18    BY NOW YOU'RE LIKELY TO BE
08:39:01:28    FAMILIAR WITH SOME OF THE
08:39:02:19    PROPOSITIONS WE HAVE DISCUSSED
08:39:04:00    THIS YEAR.
08:39:05:21    MANY OF THEM CAN BE FOUND IN
08:39:06:27    YOUR PLENARY AGENDA.
08:39:09:07    YOU WILL CONTINUE TO HEAR FROM
08:39:10:01    US ABOUT OUR POSITIONS ON                              4
08:39:12:00    RESOLUTIONS AND PROPOSED BYLAW
08:39:16:25    CHANGES.
08:39:17:07    BUT I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT
08:39:19:06    THAT WE SPEND SOME TIME
08:39:20:27    DISCUSSING OTHER MAJOR
08:39:22:04    INITIATIVES THE BOARD HAS
08:39:24:00    EXPLORED SINCE OUR LAST REPORT
08:39:27:12    IN SALT LAKE CITY.
08:39:29:10    THOSE NOT INCAPSULATED IN YOUR
08:39:33:27    AGENDA.
08:39:34:15    TO EXPLAIN THIS YEAR, IT'S
08:39:36:13    EASIER TO START THREE MONTHS
08:39:38:12    BEFORE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN
08:39:39:27    SALT LAKE.
08:39:41:21    IN APRIL OF 2009, WE BECAME A
08:39:45:21    POLICY-BASED GOVERNANCE BOARD.
08:39:48:24    WE OFTEN GET QUESTIONS ABOUT
08:39:50:25    HOW POLICY GOVERNANCE WORKS
08:39:55:00    DIFFERENTLY FROM OTHER
08:39:56:06    GOVERNANCE MODELS, BUT
08:39:58:15    SOMETIMES WE GET PLEAS ASKING
08:40:01:00    US JUST THE OPPOSITE, TO STOP
08:40:03:25    EXPLAINING.
08:40:05:22     [ LAUGHTER ]
08:40:06:06    >> FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO STAND
08:40:08:21    ON THAT SIDE, I ASK EXACTLY
08:40:11:16    FIVE SENTENCES FOR OF
08:40:14:12    PATIENCE.
08:40:16:12    POLICY GOVERNANCE IS A METHOD
08:40:18:10    OF GOVERNANCE RELATIONSHIP
08:40:20:12    THAT SEEKS TO CLARIFY THE
08:40:22:03    ROLES OF BOARD, PRESIDENT, AND
08:40:24:04    STAFF.
08:40:24:16    FROM THE INPUT IT GETS FROM
08:40:26:00    ALL PARTS OF UNITARIAN
08:40:26:27    UNIVERSALISM, THE BOARD SETS A
08:40:29:28    LONG-TERM VISION FOR THE UUA.
08:40:33:24    THE PRESIDENT THEN INTERPRETS
08:40:35:00    THE BOARD'S VISION AND IN
08:40:37:07    RELATIONSHIP WITH THE STAFF,
08:40:39:00    CHARTS A COURSE FOR ENACTING
08:40:40:24    IT.
08:40:41:21    THE PRESIDENT PRESENTS HIS
08:40:43:09    INTERPRETATION AND ITS RESULTS
08:40:45:21    TO THE BOARD.
08:40:46:18    IN TURN, THE BOARD DECIDES IF
08:40:49:03    THE INTERPRETATION IS
08:40:50:13    REASONABLE, IF THE MEANS ARE
08:40:52:12    JUSTIFIABLE, AND IF THE
08:40:54:18    RESULTS REFLECT THE INTENT.                            5
08:40:58:01    HERE'S WHAT WE'VE FOUND SO FAR
08:41:00:03    WITH POLICY GOVERNANCE.
08:41:01:27    WE'VE FOUND THE PROCESS OF
08:41:03:19    CASTING VISION DEMANDS
08:41:05:21    CLARITY, FEEDBACK, AND
08:41:09:12    ACCOUNTABILITY.
08:41:11:25    WE'VE FOUND THAT MANY TASKS
08:41:13:10    HISTORICALLY POSITIONED WITH
08:41:14:15    THE BOARD MAY BE BETTER
08:41:15:18    HANDLED BY THE UUA PRESIDENT
08:41:17:12    AND STAFF.
08:41:18:28    AND FINALLY, WE'VE FOUND THAT
08:41:20:27    OUR ASSOCIATION'S GOVERNANCE
08:41:22:18    IS READY FOR TRANSFORMATION.
08:41:26:15    HOLD THAT THOUGHT, BECAUSE
08:41:28:21    WE'RE COMING BACK TO IT IN A
08:41:30:19    BIG WAY.
08:41:31:25    I'M NOW GOING TO PASS THE
08:41:33:15    TORCH TO MY COLLEAGUE, JEANNE
08:41:36:03    PUPKE, TRUSTEE AT-LARGE AND
08:41:38:01    MINISTER OF FIRST UU CHURCH OF
08:41:40:09    RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, WHO WILL
08:41:43:13    TAKE YOU THROUGH THE FIRST OF
08:41:45:07    SEVERAL INITIATIVES WE HAVE
08:41:46:21    TAKEN THIS YEAR.
08:41:50:13     [ APPLAUSE ]
08:41:57:21    >> WE ARE YOUR UUA BOARD, AND
08:42:00:09    THE GOAL OF THE BOARD IS TO
08:42:01:24    REPRESENT YOU AND YOU.
08:42:06:19    WE'VE BEEN ASSEMBLED TO
08:42:08:12    REPRESENT OUR ASSOCIATION AND
08:42:10:15    TO REFLECT THAT COMPOSITION.
08:42:13:16    WE'VE TRANSITIONED INTO A
08:42:15:01    GOVERNANCE THAT INSISTS ON
08:42:17:03    CONSISTENT RELIABLE FEEDBACK
08:42:20:01    FROM ALL THE PARTS OF
08:42:22:24    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM.
08:42:25:06    WE CAN'T DO THAT FROM A SINGLE
08:42:28:09    POINT ON A MAP.
08:42:31:06    AND IF WE ARE TO KNOW HOW TO
08:42:34:21    REPRESENT YOU WELL, WE CAN NOT
08:42:35:27    AFFORD TO LET BOSTON BE OUR
08:42:38:24    ONLY MEETING PLACE.
08:42:41:10     [ APPLAUSE ]
08:42:41:24    >> THIS PAST YEAR, WE HELD OUR
08:42:47:25    FIRST OUT-OF-BOSTON MEETING IN
08:42:52:06    SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
08:42:56:15    NOT ONLY IS SAN ANTONIO A
08:42:59:18    THRIVING MULTI-CULTURAL
08:43:01:10    METROPOLIS, BUT IT IS THE                              6
08:43:05:09    CHILDHOOD ONLY OF OUR
08:43:07:25    PRESIDENT, PETER MORALES, AND
08:43:09:15    A BUSTLING CENTER OF UNITARIAN
08:43:10:27    UNIVERSALIST ACTIVISM AND
08:43:12:27    VITALITY.
08:43:15:22    WE WERE GRACIOUSLY WELCOMED
08:43:16:22    THERE BY THE CONGREGATIONS IN
08:43:18:24    THE SAN ANTONIO AREA AND WE
08:43:21:04    WERE PROVIDED AMPLE TIME TO
08:43:23:22    DISCUSS WHAT A HEALTHY UUA
08:43:26:21    LOOKS LIKE TO THEM.
08:43:30:10    WE FOUND TIME, ALSO, TO ENJOY
08:43:32:18    THE SIMPLE BLESSINGS OF A
08:43:34:27    COMMUNITY WITH THOSE
08:43:35:19    CONGREGATIONS AND WE WOULD
08:43:37:22    THANK THEM ALL DEEPLY FOR
08:43:41:03    THEIR HOSPITALITY AND THEIR
08:43:43:07    GRATITUDE AND FOR THEIR
08:43:45:00    WONDERFUL SAN ANTONIO WAYS.
08:43:47:06    THANK YOU.
08:43:48:15    AND BASED ON THOSE DEEP AND
08:43:50:19    VERY NOURISHING CONVERSATIONS,
08:43:52:21    WE HAVE LEARNED MUCH, BUT WE
08:43:55:06    HAVE LEARNED THAT WE NEED TO
08:43:56:09    GET OUT-OF-BOSTON AND COME TO
08:43:59:09    SEE YOU.
08:44:01:27    BECAUSE OF THE DISCOURSE THAT
08:44:05:06    THE NEW IMMIGRATION LAW 1070
08:44:09:09    HAS SET INTO THIS WORLD, YOUR
08:44:11:10    BOARD WILL BE HOLDING ITS NEXT
08:44:14:15    OUT-OF-BOSTON MEETING IN
08:44:16:06    PHOENIX, ARIZONA.
08:44:18:01     [ APPLAUSE ]
08:44:18:12    >> WE ARE GOING THERE FOR
08:44:28:00    WITNESS AND FOR DIALOGUE.
08:44:31:15    WE INTEND TO BE PRESENT TO
08:44:32:27    THOSE CONGREGATIONS SO THAT WE
08:44:34:04    CAN UNDERSTAND MORE CLEARLY
08:44:37:06    WHAT WE CAN DO TOGETHER TO
08:44:39:15    WITNESS AGAINST LAWS WHICH
08:44:41:00    MARGINALIZE AND HATE.
08:44:45:12    WE WANT TO HEAR ALL OF YOUR
08:44:47:00    IDEAS.
08:44:48:21    WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT
08:44:50:04    LOCATIONS FOR FUTURE MEETINGS,
08:44:52:00    AND WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO
08:44:53:15    APPROACH YOUR DISTRICT TRUSTEE
08:44:56:25    IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU WOULD
08:44:57:22    LIKE TO INVITE US TO JOIN YOU
08:44:59:15    ON YOUR SPOT ON THE MAP.                               7
08:45:02:13    WE'RE EAGER, MOST EAGER TO
08:45:04:27    HEAR FROM YOU WHAT UNITARIAN
08:45:07:06    UNIVERSALISM MEANS IN YOUR
08:45:11:04    NEIGHBORHOOD.
08:45:11:09    AND TO CONTINUE WITH THE TOPIC
08:45:12:18    OF ENGAGEMENT WITH OUR
08:45:13:27    CONGREGATIONS NATIONWIDE, I
08:45:16:13    WOULD NOW LIKE TO INVITE MY
08:45:20:00    WONDERFUL COLLEAGUE, LINDA
08:45:23:06    LASKOWSKI, WHO HAILS FROM THE
08:45:24:25    BERKLEY, CALIFORNIA, CHURCH
08:45:26:24    AND IS TRUSTEE TO THE PACIFIC
08:45:28:12    CENTRAL DISTRICT TO THE
08:45:29:15    PODIUM.
08:45:29:21    AND WHILE LINDA IS NOT A
08:45:31:10    TRUSTEE AT-LARGE, SHE HAS
08:45:33:06    SHEPHERDED THROUGH THE BOARD
08:45:37:24    ONE OF THE MOST AMBITION
08:45:38:25    PROJECTS THE BOARD HAS EVER
08:45:40:03    UNDERTAKEN.
08:45:40:27    WE ASKED HER TO COME AND SHARE
08:45:42:21    THE CONTENT AND FINDINGS OF
08:45:44:16    THIS PROJECT WITH YOU.
08:45:53:01    >> THANK YOU, JEAN.
08:45:54:12    AND GOOD MORNING.
08:45:55:21    >> GOOD MORNING.
08:45:57:00    >> AS YOU JUST HEARD, ONE OF
08:45:58:13    THE MOST IMPORTANT TASKS OF A
08:46:01:00    UUA TRUSTEE IS TO UNDERSTAND
08:46:03:12    AND REFLECT THE VALUES OF
08:46:05:10    THOSE WE SERVE, WHICH INCLUDES
08:46:08:24    OUR MEMBER CONGREGATIONS.
08:46:12:15    OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, WE
08:46:15:10    HAVE TRIED A NEW APPROACH TO
08:46:17:24    UNDERSTANDING THOSE VALUES.
08:46:21:19    WE STARTED WITH THE 12
08:46:22:19    CONGREGATIONS IN TEXAS THAT
08:46:24:24    JEANNE MENTIONED DURING OUR
08:46:26:21    BOARD MEETING IN SAN ANTONIO.
08:46:28:25    AND THEN RANDOMLY SELECTED 100
08:46:32:12    CONGREGATIONS, NEARLY 10% OF
08:46:34:27    OUR MEMBERSHIP.
08:46:41:24    WE ARE HAVING CONVERSATIONS
08:46:42:24    BEEN THE TRUST SKI AND EACH OF
08:46:43:24    THOSE CONGREGATIONS, EITHER
08:46:45:04    FACE TO FACE OR BY PHONE ABOUT
08:46:46:25    HAVING A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP
08:46:49:21    BETWEEN US.
08:46:51:24    ON THE SCREEN IS A LIST OF THE
08:46:54:27    65 CONGREGATIONS THAT WE HAVE                          8
08:46:58:27    ALREADY INTERVIEWED IN THE
08:47:00:01    PAST FEW MONTHS.
08:47:02:15    WE HAVE MOSTLY BEEN LISTENING
08:47:04:27    AND WE HAVE LEARNED A LOT.
08:47:10:00    FOR EXAMPLE, WE ARE LEARNING
08:47:11:06    THAT YOU ARE BUSY AND WE ARE
08:47:12:24    BUSY, SO SETTING UP THE
08:47:16:00    INTERVIEWS IS TAKING A LITTLE
08:47:17:03    LONGER THAN WE EXPECTED.
08:47:20:00    SO WHAT YOU ARE HEARING TODAY
08:47:21:16    IS JUST THE BEGINNING AS WE
08:47:24:00    CONTINUE AND BEGIN A MORE
08:47:25:18    IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF WHAT
08:47:27:21    WE'RE HEARING OVER THE SUMMER
08:47:29:07    AND INTO THE FALL AS WE
08:47:30:24    CONTINUE THESE INTERVIEWS.
08:47:35:25    WE ARE ALSO LEARNING HOW
08:47:36:28    ENJOYABLE THESE INTERVIEWS CAN
08:47:39:12    BE FOR ALL INVOLVED.
08:47:43:06    SOME REPRESENTATIVE COMMENTS
08:47:45:04    FROM OUR INTERVIEWS INCLUDE IT
08:47:48:09    WAS AN HONOR TO BE CHOSEN,
08:47:50:24    EVEN IF IT WAS A RANDOM HONOR.
08:47:54:00     [ LAUGHTER ]
08:47:55:21    >> IT MEANS A LOT TO HAVE
08:47:57:09    SOMEONE LISTENING.
08:47:59:13    AND FROM ONE OF OUR TRUSTEES,
08:48:01:15    I HAVE FOUND THE TIME LINKING
08:48:02:21    WITH CONGREGATIONS SOME OF THE
08:48:04:15    MOST REWARDING I HAVE SPENT AS
08:48:06:07    A TRUSTEE.
08:48:09:15    NOT SURPRISING WAS THAT MOST
08:48:12:01    CONGREGATIONS FEEL THEY HAVE
08:48:14:18    NO RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UUA
08:48:16:12    BOARD, EVEN IF THEY KNOW THEIR
08:48:19:01    TRUSTEE.
08:48:20:07    WHEN THEY THINK OF THE UUA,
08:48:23:09    THEY THINK OF UUA STAFF AND
08:48:26:01    THE SERVICES THAT THE STAFF
08:48:27:21    PROVIDES.
08:48:31:00    PART OF OUR QUEST WAS TO KNOW
08:48:32:16    WHO WE SHOULD ACTUALLY BE
08:48:34:00    TALKING TO WHEN WE WANT TO
08:48:36:15    DIALOGUE WITH A CONGREGATION.
08:48:41:25    WE FOUND NO CONSIST TENSE I,
08:48:46:06    THOUGH THE MINISTER AND BOARD
08:48:48:01    PRESIDENTS ARE MENTIONED MOST
08:48:50:06    FREQUENTLY AT 60% OF THE TIME.
08:48:52:00    AND THOUGH WE WERE NOT HAVING
08:48:53:19    THIS DISCUSSION IN THE CONTEXT                         9
08:48:56:18    OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IT WAS
08:48:58:03    INTERESTING TO ME THAT NONE OF
08:48:59:06    THE 65 CONGREGATIONS
08:49:00:19    INTERVIEWED MENTIONED THEIR GA
08:49:04:00    DELEGATES AS REPRESENTING
08:49:05:06    THEM.
08:49:07:22    WE ARE HAVING GREAT
08:49:09:15    CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT MAKES
08:49:10:12    RELATIONSHIPS WORK.
08:49:12:27    OVER HALF OF THE INTERVIEWS
08:49:14:19    MENTIONED RESPECT, TRUST, AND
08:49:17:18    HONESTY, SO CLEARLY THIS MUST
08:49:20:25    BE THE FOUNDATION OF THE
08:49:22:12    RELATIONSHIP WE ARE BUILDING
08:49:23:18    TOGETHER.
08:49:28:04    WE GOT AND WILL CONTINUE TO
08:49:29:10    GET GREAT SUGGESTIONS ON
08:49:30:06    STRENGTHENING OUR
08:49:31:00    RELATIONSHIPS, WHICH WE WILL
08:49:33:18    CONSIDER AS A FULL BOARD AND
08:49:35:01    MAKE AVAILABLE AS A PUBLIC
08:49:37:03    DOCUMENT SOMETIME THIS FALL.
08:49:40:09    BUT PERHAPS THE MOST POIGNANT
08:49:46:12    FINDING FOR MANY OF US WAS THE
08:49:47:27    DEGREE TO WHICH SO MANY OF OUR
08:49:49:28    CONGREGATIONS FEEL ALONE,
08:49:51:12    ESPECIALLY WHERE THEY ARE
08:49:53:09    GEOGRAPHICALLY ISOLATED FAR
08:49:56:04    FROM OTHER UU CONGREGATIONS OR
08:49:58:21    OTHER LIBERAL FAITHS.
08:50:02:04    SO WE HAVE INVITED SEVERAL OF
08:50:03:16    THE CONGREGATIONS WHO SPOKE
08:50:05:21    MOST ELOQUENTLY ABOUT THIS TO
08:50:10:01    JOIN US THIS MORNING BY
08:50:11:03    STREAMING VIDEO AND SOME MAY
08:50:14:03    HAVE DELEGATES HERE, BECAUSE
08:50:15:22    WE HAVE A MESSAGE FOR THEM.
08:50:18:06    SO I WOULD ASK OUR AT-LARGE
08:50:20:18    TRUSTEES AND YOU TO JOIN US IN
08:50:25:09    DELIVERING A MESSAGE 3,000
08:50:28:21    VOICES STRONG.
08:50:29:19    TO THE UU FELLOWSHIP OF
08:50:36:06    LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA, WE SAY
08:50:40:24    YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
08:50:45:22    TO THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
08:50:47:03    FELLOWSHIP OF LaGUNA BEACH,
08:50:50:13    CALIFORNIA, WE SAY, YOU ARE
08:50:52:04    NOT ALONE!
08:50:57:03    TO THE UU CHURCH OF THE LAKES
08:50:59:04    IN ELKHORN, WISCONSIN, YOU ARE                        10
08:51:01:21    NOT ALONE!
08:51:05:00    TO THE UU FELLOWSHIP OF KERN
08:51:07:22    COUNTY IN BAKERS FIELD,
08:51:09:18    CALIFORNIA.
08:51:10:15    YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
08:51:14:22    TO THE UU CHURCH OF BREVARD IN
08:51:17:15    WEST MELBOURNE, FLORIDA, YOU
08:51:19:27    ARE NOT ALONE!
08:51:25:18    AND TO ALL OF THE
08:51:27:03    CONGREGATIONS WHEREVER THEY
08:51:28:15    ARE, 3,000 OF US SAY, WE ARE
08:51:35:06    NOT ALONE!
08:51:38:04    >> HOLA.
08:51:56:00    TRUSTEE AT-LARGE, AN INTERIM
08:51:58:18    MINISTER OF THE BELL STREET
08:52:00:09    CHAPEL IN PROVIDENCE, RHODE
08:52:01:28    ISLAND, AND I WOULD LIKE TO
08:52:03:03    FOLLOW IN THIS REPORT WITH
08:52:04:18    ANOTHER MAJOR INITIATIVE THAT
08:52:06:03    THE BOARD HAS TAKEN ON.
08:52:09:22    EXCELLENCE IN MINISTRY.
08:52:12:03    NOW, THE SCOPE IS BIG.
08:52:16:01    WE ARE WORKING IN
08:52:17:27    COLLABORATION WITH THE PANEL
08:52:19:03    ON THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION AND
08:52:21:19    MANY OTHER MINISTERIAL
08:52:25:21    ORGANIZATIONS.
08:52:26:09    NOW, TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS
08:52:27:15    BROADER THAN A CONVERSATION
08:52:28:16    ABOUT EXCELLENT MINISTERS.
08:52:33:12    SORRY.
08:52:36:28    EXCELLENCE IN MINISTRY IS AN
08:52:38:21    ENDEAVOR TO DEEPEN AND
08:52:40:18    TRANSFORM THE CULTURE OF
08:52:43:04    CONGREGATIONAL MINISTRY IN
08:52:45:12    ISSUES RANGING FROM
08:52:46:21    MULTIGENERATIONAL MINISTRY TO
08:52:49:13    MODELS OF CONGREGATIONAL
08:52:50:21    GROWTH.
08:52:51:24    NOW, RATHER THAN FOCUSING ON
08:52:54:15    SPECIFIC SKILLS OR ONE SIZE
08:52:57:07    FITS ALL MODELS OF MINISTRY,
08:52:59:15    AND TRUST ME, ONE SIZE DOES
08:53:01:00    NOT FIT ALL, I KNOW  --
08:53:03:22     [ LAUGHTER ]
08:53:04:06    >> EXCELLENCE IN MINISTRY IS
08:53:06:03    AN EFFORT DEDICATED TO
08:53:08:00    OUTCOMES.
08:53:09:16    THE UUA BOARD IS SPEARHEADING
08:53:12:03    SEVERAL ASPECTS OF THIS                               11
08:53:13:03    CONVERSATION.
08:53:14:21    WE ARE TAKING A HARD LOOK AT
08:53:17:18    PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALING
08:53:19:06    FROM EVERY ANGLE.
08:53:23:21    WE ARE INVESTIGATING
08:53:24:07    ANTIRACIST AND MULTI-CULTURAL
08:53:27:06    EFFORTS IN OUR CONGREGATIONS.
08:53:28:28    WE'RE COMPILING BEST PRACTICES
08:53:32:12    AND OTHER MODELS OF MINISTRY,
08:53:34:15    AND WE ARE DEEPENING THE UUA
08:53:36:10    BOARD'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
08:53:37:24    BOARD'S OF DENOMINATIONALLY
08:53:41:21    IDENTIFIED SEMINARIES.
08:53:47:06    AS IT HAS FOR SEVERAL YEARS,
08:53:48:09    THE BOARD CONTINUES ITS
08:53:49:03    ATTENTION TO YOUTH MINISTRY.
08:53:52:28    WE ARE EAGER TO FURTHER
08:53:55:15    EFFORTS TO EMPOWER YOUNG
08:53:57:00    GENERATIONS OF UU LEADERS.
08:53:59:16    OUR COLLABORATION WITH THE UUA
08:54:02:03    ADMINISTRATION TO IMPLEMENT
08:54:04:06    CHANGES IN YOUTH MINISTRY IS
08:54:06:27    ONGOING.
08:54:08:24    WE CONTINUE TO RECEIVE REGULAR
08:54:11:09    UPDATES ON THE PROGRESS OF THE
08:54:14:04    YOUTH MINISTRY GROUP'S
08:54:16:09    RECOMMENDATIONS.
08:54:17:12    I WILL NOW HAND OVER THINGS TO
08:54:19:06    OUR MOST EXCELLENT TRUSTEE
08:54:20:25    AT-LARGE, NICK ALLEN.
08:54:23:18    HE HAS BEEN WITH THE UNITY
08:54:24:27    CHURCH IN ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA,
08:54:27:22    WHO WILL DISCUSS WITH YOU THE
08:54:29:06    FINAL ASPECT OF OUR REPORT.
08:54:31:03    NICK?
08:54:35:15    GIVE IT UP.
08:54:36:18     [ APPLAUSE ]
08:54:37:00    >> SO AT THE TOP OF THIS
08:54:41:04    REPORT, CHARLIE ASKED YOU ALL
08:54:43:07    TO HOLD A THOUGHT.
08:54:44:12    ARE YOU READY TO COME BACK TO
08:54:49:27    THAT?
08:54:51:00    >> YES!
08:54:51:24    >> GREAT.
08:54:52:12    ONE MAJOR DISCUSSION SINCE OUR
08:54:53:27    SHIFT FOR POLICY GOVERNANCE IS
08:54:56:01    HOW GOVERNANCE ITSELF AIDES OR
08:54:57:24    INHIBITS OUR ASPIRATIONS AS A
08:54:59:27    MOVEMENT.
08:55:01:00    OUR GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE, TO                          12
08:55:03:16    SAY THE LEAST, IS BYZANTINE.
08:55:09:28    THIS CHART WAS CREATED BY
08:55:14:00    FINANCIAL ADVISOR DAN BRODY,
08:55:15:12    AND I THINK YOU WILL FIND IT
08:55:16:28    ARTICULATES THIS POINT WELL.
08:55:19:27     [ LAUGHTER ]
08:55:22:15    >> PLEASE OBSERVE THAT THIS IS
08:55:24:16    JUST ASSOCIATIONAL GOVERNANCE.
08:55:26:21    THIS IS NOT STAFF.
08:55:27:24    IT IS NOT DISTRICTS.
08:55:31:06    WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS ABOUT
08:55:33:10    THE EASIEST PRESENTATION
08:55:36:21    POSSIBLE, AND WE WONDER HOW SO
08:55:41:15    MANY MOVING PARTS, JUMBLED
08:55:43:09    ACCOUNT ABILITIES, AND
08:55:44:15    OPERATIONAL MINUTIA AFFECTS
08:55:47:22    OUR CAPACITY TO MAKE
08:55:49:03    TRANSPARENT, EFFECTIVE, AND
08:55:50:21    BOLD DECISIONS AS AN
08:55:53:04    ASSOCIATION OF CONGREGATIONS.
08:55:55:24    OVER THE YEARS THE BOARD HAS
08:55:58:19    COMMISSIONED AT LEAST FIVE
08:56:00:15    TASKFORCE TO REPORT ON OUR
08:56:01:27    GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE.
08:56:03:12    TO CITE A DOCUMENT GENERATED
08:56:05:04    EARLIER THIS YEAR, QUOTE,
08:56:08:00    "THESE TASKFORCES HAVE ALL
08:56:10:09    DESCRIBED THE SAME BASIC
08:56:11:21    CONDITION.
08:56:13:07    OUR GOVERNANCE IS TOO COMPLEX.
08:56:17:06    THEY HAVE OBSERVED THAT WE
08:56:19:01    ELECT LEADERS, BUT DO NOT
08:56:22:09    AUTHORIZE THEM TO DO THEIR
08:56:23:24    JOBS.
08:56:25:13    THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IS
08:56:27:22    TOO BIG TO BE EFFECTIVE AND
08:56:31:18    THAT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS
08:56:33:19    TOO EXPENSIVE.
08:56:35:27    IN SHORT, THESE TASKFORCE HAVE
08:56:39:28    OBSERVED A SYSTEMIC BROKENNESS
08:56:42:16    IN THE GOVERNANCE OF OUR
08:56:44:21    ASSOCIATION."
08:56:49:04    SYSTEMIC BROKENNESS.
08:56:56:00    WE THINK CHANGE STARTS WITH
08:56:57:07    US, THE BOARD.
08:56:58:01    OUR PRESENT CONSTRUCTION OF 24
08:57:00:12    MEMBERS IS COSTLY, CUMBERSOME,
08:57:03:07    AND ILL EQUIPPED TO SERVE YOU
08:57:05:00    AS CONGREGATIONS AND AS A
08:57:06:09    MOVEMENT.                                             13
08:57:07:12    IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS, WE WILL
08:57:09:28    BE ASKING YOU TO PASS BYLAW
08:57:11:21    CHANGES THAT DECREASE OUR SIZE
08:57:14:09    AND THERE BY INCREASE OUR
08:57:16:07    CAPACITY TO SERVE YOU.
08:57:19:06    OF COURSE, IF THAT INTRICATELY
08:57:22:21    CONNECTED FLOWCHART IS ANY
08:57:24:16    INDICATOR, GOVERNANCE
08:57:26:09    TRANSFORMATION CAN NOT HAPPEN
08:57:27:21    IN ISOLATED COMPARTMENTS.
08:57:30:00    THE BOARD IS CONNECTED TO
08:57:32:27    DISTRICTS, AND WE CAN NOT
08:57:33:27    REVIEW ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER.
08:57:36:06    IN RECENT YEARS, WE HAVE SEEN
08:57:38:22    IN ORGANIC TRANSITION TO
08:57:41:15    SHARED RESOURCES AND MULTI
08:57:43:18    DISTRICT COLLABORATION IN MANY
08:57:46:07    REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY.
08:57:47:09    WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT THE
08:57:49:21    INGENUITY WE SEE IN DISTRICTS
08:57:51:28    WILL MORPH INTO STRUCTURAL
08:57:54:00    SOLUTIONS AND WE ARE BEGINNING
08:57:56:24    TO INITIATE CONVERSATIONS
08:57:59:04    ABOUT FORMALLY INVESTING IN
08:58:01:12    REGIONS LARGER THAN OUR
08:58:04:00    CURRENT DISTRICTS.
08:58:06:28    SO THAT'S THE BOARD, THOSE ARE
08:58:09:09    DISTRICTS, AND AS WE TEASE OUT
08:58:11:03    OUR INTERCONNECTION, THERE IS
08:58:13:19    LASTLY THE PERENNIAL QUANDARY
08:58:17:12    OF THIS ASSEMBLY.
08:58:18:28    EACH YEAR AT GA, WE EXPEND AN
08:58:22:21    ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF ENERGY AND
08:58:24:03    MONEY IN THE NAME OF
08:58:25:13    CONDUCTING BUSINESS.
08:58:28:15    BUT OUR METHOD OF CONDUCTING
08:58:30:21    BUSINESS IS ASTONISHINGLY OUT
08:58:34:15    OF LINE WITH OUR VALUES.
08:58:37:03    DESPITE HARD FOUGHT EFFORTS TO
08:58:39:13    IMPROVE ACCESS AND IMPROVE
08:58:42:09    FOLLOW THROUGH TO GA, IT
08:58:43:18    CONTINUES TO BE AN
08:58:45:22    INEQUITABLE, CONVOLUTED, AND
08:58:48:06    BY AND LARGE, UNACCOUNTABLE TO
08:58:52:22    THE STATEMENTS WE
08:58:53:21    PAINSTAKINGLY CRAFT TOGETHER.
08:58:57:06    THIS IS FLAGRANTLY UNFAIR.
08:58:59:04    IT IS UNFAIR TO THE DELEGATE
08:59:00:16    WHO LABORS FOR CONGREGATIONAL
08:59:02:12    INPUT ON STATEMENTS MOST                              14
08:59:04:03    CONGREGATIONS WILL NEVER SEE
08:59:05:19    AGAIN.
08:59:07:15    IT IS UNFAIR TO THE VOLUNTEER
08:59:09:27    WHO SPENDS METICULOUS HOURS
08:59:12:13    EVALUATING THE ACCESSIBILITY
08:59:14:27    OF AN EVENT THAT IS IN NO WAY
08:59:17:12    ECONOMICALLY ACCESSIBLE.
08:59:19:28    AND IT IS UNFAIR TO THE TWO OF
08:59:22:24    EVERY FIVE CONGREGATIONS AND
08:59:24:24    THOUSANDS OF UNITARIAN
08:59:27:00    UNIVERSALISTS WHO CAN NOT BE
08:59:28:16    HERE AT ALL.
08:59:32:18    WE CAN  --
08:59:33:03     [ APPLAUSE ]
08:59:38:27    >> I THINK YOU'RE CHEERING
08:59:40:09    THAT.
08:59:40:15    AND WE CAN AND WE MUST DO
08:59:42:09    BETTER.
08:59:43:25    NEXT YEAR, AS MANY OF YOU
08:59:45:03    KNOW, WILL MARK OUR
08:59:46:27    50TH ASSEMBLY AS A BODY OF
08:59:50:07    CONGREGATIONS.
08:59:51:15    IF WE ARE TO THRIVE FOR THE
08:59:54:09    NEXT 50 YEARS, WE HAVE TO
08:59:55:19    COMMIT OURSELVES TO A MODEL
08:59:58:18    FOR THIS ASSEMBLY THAT IS
09:00:00:15    AFFORDABLE, REPRESENTATIVE,
09:00:01:24    AND CONGREGATIONALLY
09:00:04:15    ACCOUNTABLE.
09:00:11:13    WE WILL BE PRESENTING TO YOU
09:00:12:10    MOTIONS TO REFORM ALL ASPECTS
09:00:15:21    OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY:
09:00:16:21    COMPOSITION, PROCESS,
09:00:18:10    PLANNING, FINANCING, DELEGATE
09:00:20:27    SUBSIDIES, SIZE OF
09:00:22:06    DELEGATIONS, DURATION OF
09:00:24:16    MEETINGS, AND FREQUENCY OF
09:00:26:21    MEETINGS.
09:00:28:28    TO BE CLEAR, WE HAVE RECEIVED
09:00:33:03    PROPOSALS AND THEY ARE PUBLIC
09:00:34:09    AND WE ARE COMMITTED TO ROBUST
09:00:36:22    CONVERSATION ABOUT ALL THESE
09:00:38:15    ASPECTS, BUT WE HAVE NOT
09:00:42:06    COMMITTED TO A COURSE OF
09:00:43:15    ACTION.
09:00:45:19    SHOULD I REPEAT THAT?
09:00:47:03    WE HAVE COMMITTED THUS FAR TO
09:00:49:21    CONVERSATION, NOT A COURSE OF
09:00:51:15    ACTION.
09:00:56:15    IF THE COURT IS COMPLETELY                            15
09:00:58:09    ADMITTED TO ANY TACTIC AT THIS
09:00:59:18    POINT, IT IS TO ENSURE THAT
09:01:01:04    THIS CONVERSATION DOES NOT
09:01:02:03    HAPPEN IN A VACUUM.
09:01:04:06    IT WOULD BE INEFFECTIVE AND
09:01:05:25    MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT WOULD BE
09:01:09:03    IRRELIGIOUS TO CLAIM THIS AS
09:01:11:07    BOARD WORK.
09:01:13:12    WE COULD NOT MAKE CHANGES TO
09:01:15:03    GA WITHOUT THE ENGAGEMENT OF
09:01:18:15    THOSE WHO RELY ON GA FOR
09:01:20:15    COMMUNITY AND ADVOCACY NOT
09:01:23:13    AVAILABLE CONGREGATIONALLY.
09:01:26:15    AND WE DON'T DOUBT THAT YOU'LL
09:01:28:12    HOLD OUR FEET TO THE FIRE ON
09:01:29:16    THAT.
09:01:32:18    TRANSFORMATION LIKE THIS IS
09:01:34:00    GOING TO NEED PERSISTENT
09:01:35:28    ATTENTION.
09:01:38:07    YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US IN THE
09:01:39:12    NEXT SEVERAL YEARS RESOLUTIONS
09:01:42:06    THAT SHRINK THIS BOARD,
09:01:43:28    REIMAGINE OUR DISTRICTS, AND
09:01:45:27    FINALLY MAKE THIS GENERAL
09:01:47:21    ASSEMBLY FAIR AND FOCUSED.
09:01:51:00     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:01:51:15    >> IN THE 50 YEARS AHEAD, WE
09:01:59:28    WILL HAVE TO BE MORE, AND AS A
09:02:02:24    RELIGION, OUR MESSAGE IS TOO
09:02:05:18    URGENT TO BE SUFFOCATED BY OUR
09:02:08:04    GOVERNANCE.
09:02:09:27     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:02:10:06    >> UNQUESTIONABLY, AS MUCH AS
09:02:19:18    WE HAVE TAKEN ON THIS YEAR,
09:02:23:13    THERE IS MUCH AHEAD.
09:02:25:01    AS ALWAYS, WE INVITE YOU TO
09:02:27:09    SEEK US OUT HERE AND IN OUR
09:02:30:01    RESPECTIVE DISTRICTS FOR
09:02:32:06    CONVERSATIONS, QUESTIONS,
09:02:33:15    JOYS, AND CONCERNS.
09:02:36:28    AND AS ALWAYS, IT IS AN HONOR
09:02:40:12    AND A PRIVILEGE TO SERVE AS
09:02:43:00    YOUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
09:02:46:04     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:02:59:03    >>IT'S GETTING TO BE A GOOD
09:03:13:09    DAY, ISN'T IT?
09:03:16:10    PLEASE GIVE A WARM WELCOME TO
09:03:18:21    THE UUA TRUSTEE FROM THE
09:03:20:21    MOUNTAIN DESERT DISTRICT,
09:03:22:21    MR. LEW PHINNEY.                                      16
09:03:24:16     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:03:25:07    >> THANKS, GINI.
09:03:32:19    NOTE THE T-SHIRT.
09:03:35:18    I AM LEW PHINNEY.
09:03:37:06    I AM THE TRUSTEE FROM THE
09:03:38:13    MOUNTAIN DESERT DISTRICT AND I
09:03:39:21    HAVE THE PLEASURE OF REPORTING
09:03:41:09    TO YOU ON TWO OF THE KEY
09:03:43:24    RESPONSIVE RESOLUTIONS THAT WE
09:03:45:22    APPROVED NEAR THE END OF OUR
09:03:47:09    TIME TOGETHER IN SALT LAKE
09:03:48:21    CITY LAST YEAR.
09:03:50:15    THE TWO RESOLUTIONS ARE VERY
09:03:52:10    CLOSELY RELATED.
09:03:54:00    THE FIRST "URGES THE UUA BOARD
09:03:56:24    OF TRUSTEES TO FACILITATE A
09:04:00:00    CONTINUATION AND FURTHER
09:04:01:18    DEEPENING OF THE DISCUSSION OF
09:04:03:03    THE PRINCIPLES AND PURPOSES."
09:04:07:22    THAT'S CENTERED AROUND THE
09:04:09:03    DRAFT THAT THE COMMISSION ON
09:04:10:03    APPRAISAL PRESENTED.
09:04:12:27    WE HAD EXTENSIVE DISCUSSIONS
09:04:14:16    THROUGHOUT THE ASSOCIATION.
09:04:17:03    MANY MEMBERS FELT VERY
09:04:19:00    STRONGLY ABOUT THE DRAFT.
09:04:22:04    THEREFORE, YOUR BOARD TAKES
09:04:23:13    THAT URGING VERY SERIOUSLY.
09:04:27:21    THE SECOND RESPONSIVE
09:04:28:18    RESOLUTION DIRECTS THE BOARD
09:04:30:13    TO CONDUCT "A REVIEW OF THE
09:04:32:21    ENTIRETY OF SECTION C-15.1(C)
09:04:39:09    IN ORDER TO CLARIFY THE
09:04:40:24    PROCESS AND LIMITATIONS OF A
09:04:43:07    PROPOSAL TO AMEND A BYLAW IN
09:04:46:09    ARTICLE II.
09:04:48:27    WE WERE ALL CONFUSED AND
09:04:50:25    FRUSTRATED BY, EVERYBODY,
09:04:59:15    ABOUT THE PROVISIONS OF
09:05:00:07    ARTICLE XV.
09:05:01:16    MANY DELEGATION WERE
09:05:02:15    FRUSTRATED BY THE FACT THAT
09:05:03:21    ARTICLE XV DOES NOT PERMIT
09:05:05:03    AMENDMENTS TO AN ARTICLE II
09:05:07:25    AMENDMENT THAT HAS BEEN
09:05:09:18    FORMALLY PROPOSED TO THE
09:05:11:03    ASSEMBLY.
09:05:13:15    AFTER CAREFUL CONSIDERATION,
09:05:15:04    THE BOARD DECIDED THAT IT'S
09:05:17:12    IMPORTANT TO DEAL WITH THE                            17
09:05:20:27    CONFUSION FIRST, THEN TAKE UP
09:05:22:04    THE FURTHER DISCUSSION OF THE
09:05:24:12    PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES.
09:05:26:24    THEREFORE, WE WILL WORK ON
09:05:29:18    ARTICLE XV FIRST.
09:05:31:22    WHEN WE HAVE THE PROCEDURAL
09:05:33:09    CONFUSION ADDRESSED, THEN WE
09:05:38:06    WILL ONCE AGAIN TAKE UP THE
09:05:39:16    ARTICLE II.
09:05:44:25    ARTICLE XV IS WHAT WE REFER TO
09:05:46:21    AS A C BYLAW.
09:05:47:24    THAT MEANS THAT TO AMEND THE
09:05:49:12    ARTICLE, WE MUST USE SOME OF
09:05:50:12    THE MORE RESTRICTIVE PORTIONS
09:05:52:07    OF ARTICLE XV TO AMEND ARTICLE
09:05:55:00    XV.
09:06:05:00    WILL THAT SHE HAVE THE CON
09:06:05:24    FUSION WE HAD LAST YEAR ON
09:06:07:06    ARTICLE II?
09:06:07:27    I CERTAINLY HOPE NOT.
09:06:15:15    THAT'S PART OF THE REASON THAT
09:06:16:27    WE DECIDED TO DO A COMPLETE
09:06:18:13    REDRAFT OF ARTICLE XV.
09:06:19:19    SO HOW DO WE GO ABOUT AMENDING
09:06:21:00    ARTICLE XV?
09:06:22:27    THE BOARD HAS DONE A LOT OF
09:06:24:09    WORK ALREADY ON ARTICLE XV,
09:06:26:21    BUT THERE IS MUCH MORE TO BE
09:06:27:25    DONE.
09:06:29:07    WE'RE TRYING TO ANSWER THE
09:06:30:15    BASIC QUESTION WHAT'S THE
09:06:33:27    PURPOSE THAT HAVE ARTICLE?
09:06:34:21    WHAT ARE THE IMPORTANT PIECES
09:06:36:04    OF THE EXISTING ARTICLE THAT
09:06:37:18    WE MUST CLARIFY AND CARRY
09:06:40:06    FORWARD INTO THE NEW DRAFT
09:06:42:10    THAT WE PROPOSE?
09:06:44:21    OVER THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS,
09:06:46:03    THE BOARD, IN CONSULTATION
09:06:48:09    WITH OUR LEGAL ADVISORS, WILL
09:06:49:25    PROPOSE A DRAFT AMENDMENT.
09:06:52:15    WE'LL POST IT ON THE WEBSITE
09:06:55:00    AND, TO MAKE IT EASY TO FIND,
09:06:57:07    WE'LL ANNOUNCE IT ON THE UU
09:06:59:27    LEADERS AND GA LISTSERVS AND
09:07:04:04    ASK THAT IT BE POSTED TO THE
09:07:05:24    UU UPDATES LISTSERV AS WELL.
09:07:08:24    PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT THAT
09:07:09:21    DRAFT.
09:07:12:28    IF WE HAVEN'T ACHIEVED THE                            18
09:07:14:24    CLARITY THAT WE INTEND, PLEASE
09:07:16:15    TELL US AND SUGGEST LANGUAGE
09:07:17:12    THAT WOULD MAKE IT BETTER AND
09:07:20:07    MORE CLEAR.
09:07:22:27    IF YOU THINK WE'VE MISSED THE
09:07:24:03    MARK ON WHAT SHOULD OR
09:07:26:28    SHOULDN'T BE INCLUDED IN THE
09:07:27:28    AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XV,
09:07:30:27    PLEASE TELL US AND SUGGEST
09:07:32:24    LANGUAGE THAT WOULD MAKE IT
09:07:34:19    BETTER.
09:07:36:12    SO, HOW SHOULD YOU DO THAT?
09:07:41:01    PLEASE SEND US AN E-MAIL, AND
09:07:44:09    I HAVE TO ADD CONTACT YOUR
09:07:46:21    TRUSTEE.
09:07:48:19    THEY'LL GET IT TO THOSE OF US
09:07:50:03    THAT ARE ACTUALLY WORKING ON
09:07:50:24    THE DRAFT.
09:07:51:15    THE BOARD WILL PUT THE
09:07:52:09    AMENDMENTS ON THE AGENDA FOR
09:07:55:16    GENERAL ASSEMBLY 11.
09:07:58:03    THAT ACTION STARTS THE
09:07:59:18    TWO-YEAR PROCESS FOR AMENDING
09:08:02:01    A C BYLAW.
09:08:02:22    WE'LL DISCUSS THE DRAFT.
09:08:03:27    WE MAY AMEND IT IF THAT'S
09:08:07:04    NEEDED, WE'LL VOTE.
09:08:08:19    THE AMENDMENT IS APPROVED BY A
09:08:10:09    SIMPLE MAJORITY, WE'LL PUT IT
09:08:12:03    ON THE AGENDA FOR GA12.
09:08:14:07    AT GA12 WE WILL BEGIN CONSIDER
09:08:17:12    THE AMENDMENT.
09:08:18:09    IF WE APPROVE IT, THEN, BY A
09:08:20:15    TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY, IT WILL
09:08:23:07    BE THE NEW ARTICLE XV.
09:08:25:18    AT THAT POINT, WITH THE
09:08:28:03    CONFUSION RESOLVED, WE WILL
09:08:30:13    ONCE AGAIN BEGIN CONSIDERATION
09:08:32:24    OF ARTICLE II USING THE NEW
09:08:35:00    PROCEDURES DESCRIBED IN
09:08:37:22    ARTICLE XV.
09:08:42:12    CLEAR?
09:08:47:07    I'M NOT ABOUT TO PREDICT HOW
09:08:49:24    THE SPECIFICS OF HOW THE
09:08:52:24    ARTICLE II PROCESS WILL WORK,
09:08:56:09    BUT I EXPECT THERE WILL BE A
09:08:57:09    REVIEW AND STUDY PROCESS KIND
09:08:58:24    OF SIMILAR TO WHAT THE
09:08:59:21    COMMISSION ON APPRAISAL DID
09:09:02:25    PRIOR TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY 09.                         19
09:09:06:15    THAT'S WHERE THE DEEPENING
09:09:08:06    NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
09:09:10:22    PLEASE PARTICIPATE IN THAT
09:09:11:18    PROCESS.
09:09:12:09    I ALSO EXPECT THAT FOLLOWING
09:09:14:28    THE PRESENTATION OF THE NEW
09:09:16:25    ARTICLE, THE DRAFT OF ARTICLE
09:09:18:00    II, THERE WILL BE A TWO-YEAR
09:09:20:12    GA APPROVAL PROCESS.
09:09:23:22    IF YOU GET THE IMPRESSION THAT
09:09:25:03    THIS WILL BE A CAREFUL,
09:09:26:18    INTENTIONAL PROCESS, YOU'RE
09:09:28:28    RIGHT.
09:09:30:22    IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE GET IT
09:09:32:06    RIGHT.
09:09:34:21    ARTICLE II, THE PRINCIPLES AND
09:09:36:04    PURPOSES AND SOURCES ARE THE
09:09:39:00    STUFF WE POST ON CHURCH WALLS
09:09:41:09    AND IN OUR SUNDAY MORNING
09:09:44:10    BULLETINS.
09:09:45:04    THAT ARTICLE COMPRISES THE
09:09:48:21    BASES ON WHICH OUR ASSOCIATION
09:09:50:13    EXISTS AND OPERATES.
09:09:51:22    LET'S TAKE OUR TIME, BE
09:09:54:03    INTENTIONAL, AND GET IT RIGHT.
09:09:57:12    SO PLEASE, LET US KNOW WHAT
09:10:00:21    YOU THINK.
09:10:02:09    READ THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
09:10:04:03    AND CONSIDER HOW WE SHOULD
09:10:05:03    AMEND OUR BASIC GOVERNANCE
09:10:07:21    GUIDANCE.
09:10:08:27    LET US KNOW.
09:10:10:03    ACTUALLY, THAT E-MAIL ADDRESS
09:10:12:03    IS ALREADY ACTIVE, SO IF YOU
09:10:13:25    HAVE CONCERNS EVEN BEFORE THE
09:10:15:24    DRAFT IS AVAILABLE, PLEASE LET
09:10:18:04    US KNOW.
09:10:20:06    THIS IS YOUR DOCUMENT.
09:10:22:24    HELP US MAKE IT BETTER.
09:10:25:10    THANK YOU.
09:10:27:24     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:10:28:03    >>
09:10:35:16    >> HOW ARE WE?
09:10:45:00    WE ARE NOW GOING TO TAKE UP A
09:10:46:27    VOTE THAT WAS POSTPONED FROM
09:10:48:13    PLENARY THREE, WHICH IS TO
09:10:50:27    COLLECT THE CONGREGATIONAL
09:10:52:03    STUDY-ACTION ISSUE FOR 2010
09:10:53:18    THROUGH 2014.
09:10:55:25    CHOOSING BETWEEN THE TWO                              20
09:10:57:04    PROPOSED CSAIS THAT RECEIVED
09:10:59:21    THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOTES,
09:11:02:19    CSAI NUMBER TWO, NATIONAL
09:11:05:12    ECONOMIC REFORM, CSAI3,
09:11:09:19    IMMIGRATION AS A MORAL ISSUE.
09:11:11:09    AND I'VE ASKED THE PROPOSERS
09:11:12:21    OF THOSE TWO CONGREGATIONAL
09:11:14:15    STUDY-ACTION ISSUES TO REPEAT
09:11:17:01    FOR FOLKS THEIR TWO-MINUTE
09:11:19:03    STATEMENTS OF YESTERDAY IN
09:11:20:03    CASE SOME OF US WEREN'T HERE
09:11:21:25    AT ALL.
09:11:22:10    WE JUST GOT HERE TODAY TO
09:11:23:24    GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
09:11:25:00    SO IF I COULD HAVE AT THE PRO
09:11:27:25    MICROPHONE, THAT WOULD BE
09:11:31:12    FINE.
09:11:31:24    I'D LIKE TO HEAR FIRST, WE
09:11:34:15    WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FIRST ON
09:11:37:12    THE PROPOSED CONGREGATIONAL
09:11:39:00    STUDY-ACTION ISSUE, NATIONAL
09:11:40:28    ECONOMIC REFORM.
09:11:45:24    AND WE'RE ALMOST READY.
09:11:48:12    WE'RE HAVING A TECHNICAL
09:11:49:19    DIFFICULTY.
09:11:49:28    WE'RE HAVING A PROP FAILURE.
09:11:53:15    AM I RIGHT?
09:11:55:03    I AM.
09:11:59:22    WELL, HANG ON.
09:12:02:00    HERE COMES ANOTHER ONE.
09:12:04:10    IT IS ALSO FAILING.
09:12:07:24    NOW IT IS WORKING?
09:12:08:21    OKAY.
09:12:09:06    GOOD.
09:12:09:18    I'M GOING TO RECOGNIZE NOW THE
09:12:11:16    DELEGATE AT THE PRO
09:12:13:09    MICROPHONE.
09:12:14:00    REMIND US WHO YOU ARE AND TWO
09:12:15:03    MINUTES. GO AHEAD.
09:12:18:16    >> MY NAME IS MARSHA MEYERS.
09:12:20:21    I AM A DELEGATE FROM THE FIRST
09:12:22:24    UNITARIAN CHURCH OF PORTLAND,
09:12:24:13    OREGON.
09:12:25:16    ONE OF THE FOUR CHURCHES
09:12:28:12    ACROSS THE NATION THAT
09:12:30:09    PROPOSED THE STUDY-ACTION
09:12:31:21    ISSUE, NATIONAL ECONOMIC
09:12:33:19    REFORM, A MORAL IMPERATIVE.
09:12:35:27    IT IS ALSO BEING SUPPORTED BY
09:12:37:27    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS FOR A                         21
09:12:39:00    JUST ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, AN
09:12:42:27    ASSOCIATION THAT HAS BEEN IN
09:12:44:12    PRACTICE OR BEEN WORKING FOR
09:12:45:27    22 YEARS TO EDUCATE OURSELVES
09:12:47:25    AND UNITARIANS ON THE
09:12:49:21    INJUSTICE OF ECONOMICS AS FAR
09:12:52:09    AS THE SYSTEMIC ISSUE WITHIN
09:12:55:19    OUR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
09:12:57:03    AND WORLD.
09:12:58:21    THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE TIME OF
09:13:00:24    OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO SPEAK
09:13:03:16    OUT WITH OUR SPIRITUAL VOICE,
09:13:05:24    A VOICE THAT IS FOUNDED IN OUR
09:13:09:19    SEVEN PRINCIPLES.
09:13:11:21    THERE IS A NATIONAL MOVEMENT
09:13:13:06    FOR ECONOMIC REFORM.
09:13:14:27    OUR SPIRITUAL VOICE IS NEEDED.
09:13:17:06    THIS IS THE ELEPHANT IN THE
09:13:18:19    LIVING ROOM THAT WE ALL TRIED
09:13:21:15    TO AVOID.
09:13:23:09    YESTERDAY MANY OF YOU RECEIVED
09:13:25:04    THE MILLION DOLLARS BILL FROM
09:13:26:10    US TO REMIND US ALL OF THE
09:13:28:21    ABUNDANCE IN WHICH WE LIVE,
09:13:31:00    BUT WE DO NOT SHARE IN THIS
09:13:32:16    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
09:13:35:09    BECAUSE OF OUR FINANCIAL
09:13:36:00    SYSTEM.
09:13:39:00    TODAY I HAVE THE UMBRELLA TO
09:13:40:18    REMIND US THAT ECONOMIC
09:13:42:15    JUSTICE IS THE UMBRELLA ISSUE.
09:13:46:12    ALL THE OTHER ISSUES OF
09:13:47:15    INJUSTICE BY THE OTHER
09:13:48:09    STUDY-ACTION ISSUES THAT ARE
09:13:49:15    VERY RELEVANT ARE BECAUSE OF
09:13:51:13    OUR ECONOMIC INJUSTICE IN THIS
09:13:54:03    COUNTRY.
09:13:55:00    I'M ASKING YOU, PLEASE, TO USE
09:13:58:15    OUR SPIRITUAL VOICE, OUR
09:14:00:25    PRINCIPLES TO HELP LEAD THIS
09:14:04:00    ECONOMIC JUSTICE MOVEMENT THAT
09:14:07:28    IS HAPPENING IN THE UNITED
09:14:09:10    STATES BECAUSE OF THE CRISIS
09:14:10:18    WE'RE IN.
09:14:11:27    PLEASE VOTE FOR NATIONAL
09:14:15:00    ECONOMIC REFORM, A MORAL
09:14:16:19    IMPERATIVE.
09:14:18:21    >> THANK YOU.
09:14:22:25     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:14:23:07    >> WE'RE NOW READY TO HEAR TWO                        22
09:14:30:15    MINUTES ON IMMIGRATION AS A
09:14:35:09    MORAL ISSUE.
09:14:40:00    >> MADAM MODERATOR, I AM
09:14:42:06    DANIEL STRACA, MEMBER OF PAL
09:14:45:06    AN MARR FELLOWSHIP, AND
09:14:47:13    FOUNDER OF YOU RISE, UNITARIAN
09:14:49:00    UNIVERSALIST REFUGEE AND
09:14:50:27    IMMIGRANT EDUCATION SERVES AND
09:14:52:22    EDUCATION.
09:14:53:06    I AM HONORED ONCE AGAIN TO
09:14:55:03    PROPOSE CSA NUMBER THREE,
09:14:57:06    IMMIGRATION AS A MORALISM
09:14:58:13    OTHER.
09:14:59:01    IMMIGRATION IS A CIVIL RIGHTS
09:15:00:12    STRUGGLE OF OUR TIME.
09:15:01:06    IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, THE
09:15:02:27    INHUMAN IMPACT OF OUR BROKEN
09:15:04:22    IMMIGRATION LAWS HAS WORSENED.
09:15:06:21    MARIA IS A FOUR-YEAR-OLD
09:15:08:06    AMERICAN CHILD WHOSE FATHER,
09:15:09:15    AFTER 15 YEARS IN THE UNITED
09:15:10:25    STATES, IS BARRED FROM
09:15:11:27    RETURNING BECAUSE OF VIOLATION
09:15:13:09    EQUIVALENT TO A TICKET FOR
09:15:14:24    LOITERING.
09:15:15:25    MARIA LOOKED ME STRAIGHT IN
09:15:17:01    THE EYES AND ASKED ME, WHEN
09:15:18:12    WILL YOU BRING MY PAPA HOME?
09:15:20:09    HOW MANY MORE AMERICAN
09:15:21:19    CHILDREN LIKE MARIA HAVE TO
09:15:23:04    LIVE WITHOUT A PARENT?
09:15:24:18    HOW MANY MORE CHILDREN WOULD
09:15:25:18    BE LEFT STRANDED AT SCHOOL
09:15:27:00    BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS HAVE
09:15:28:16    BEEN PICKED UP BY IMMIGRATION?
09:15:30:00    HOW MANY MORE FAMILIES WILL BE
09:15:31:00    IS HE OPERATED DUE TO
09:15:32:03    ARBITRARY CEILINGS SET MY SONG
09:15:35:07    45 YEARS AGO.
09:15:36:01    HOW MANY MORE REFUGEES WILL
09:15:37:15    LANGUISH IN CAMPS?
09:15:38:15    HOW MANY MORE PEOPLE WILL GO
09:15:40:00    THROUGH ECONOMIC INJUSTICE AS
09:15:41:16    EXPLOITED WORKERS?
09:15:42:12    HOW MANY MORE PEOPLE WILL BE
09:15:43:12    VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
09:15:44:15    AND MODERN SLAVERY?
09:15:45:27    HOW MANY MORE STATES WILL BE
09:15:47:04    DRIVEN TO PASS ARIZONA-LIKE
09:15:48:27    LAWS BECAUSE THEY ARE FED UP                          23
09:15:50:00    WITH CONGRESS' LACK OF
09:15:51:03    POLITICAL WILL TO REFORM OUR
09:15:53:16    BROKEN LAWS?
09:15:55:00    THIS IS MORE THAN A SOUTHERN
09:15:56:12    BORDER ISSUE.
09:15:57:06    IT IS A SYSTEMIC FLAW IN OUR
09:15:59:16    DEMOCRACY, WHICH AFFECTS
09:16:00:25    PEOPLE IN EVERY STATE.
09:16:02:12    LAWS ARE NOT ALWAYS MORAL.
09:16:04:12    AS UU'S, WE MUST REFRAME THE
09:16:06:07    DEBATE AS A MORAL ISSUE.
09:16:08:06    WE MUST STUDY AND LEARN THE
09:16:09:21    FACTS ONE CONGREGATION, ONE
09:16:11:09    COMMUNITY AT A TIME.
09:16:14:06    INFORMED DECISIONS CAN ONLY BE
09:16:15:15    MADE WITH KNOWLEDGE, NOT SOUND
09:16:17:03    BITES.
09:16:17:24    WITH A UU VOICE OF REASON AND
09:16:19:22    CONSCIENCE, IMMIGRATION AS A
09:16:21:00    MORAL ISSUE CAN LEAD THE WAY
09:16:23:03    TO HUMANE, COMPREHENSIVE
09:16:24:25    IMMIGRATION REFORM.
09:16:26:15    I URGE YOUR VOTE.
09:16:33:28    >> THANK YOU.
09:16:34:22     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:16:35:07    >> I RECOGNIZE THE DELEGATE AT
09:16:40:04    THE PROCEDURAL MICROPHONE.
09:16:41:22    >> SANDRA CROWELL FROM LONG
09:16:44:03    BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AND I HAVE
09:16:45:15    A QUESTION AS TO WHY THE
09:16:47:16    NUMBERS ON THE ORIGINAL VOTE
09:16:49:15    WERE NOT ANNOUNCED AND, IF
09:16:52:09    POSSIBLE, COULD THEY BE?
09:16:53:16    THANK YOU.
09:16:56:18    >>YEAH.
09:16:57:09    THAT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA.
09:16:59:24    WELL, THE REASON I DIDN'T
09:17:00:21    ANNOUNCE THEM IS THAT THE
09:17:02:13    SHEET OF PAPER THEY WERE ON I
09:17:04:03    GAVE BACK TO THE TELLERS.
09:17:05:27    SO LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GET THE
09:17:07:15    NUMBERS.
09:17:08:03    DAVID MAY, COULD YOU  -- GREG,
09:17:11:00    DO YOU HAVE THEM?
09:17:13:00    OKAY.
09:17:14:15    JUST A MOMENT.
09:17:15:24    MR. MAY, DO YOU HAVE THE
09:17:16:28    NUMBERS ON THE VOTE FROM
09:17:18:00    YESTERDAY?
09:17:19:15    I'M SORRY I'M PUTTING YOU ON                          24
09:17:21:03    THE SPOT LIKE THIS.
09:17:30:15    THEY WILL COME.
09:17:35:16    REMEMBER IN ORDER, CSAI NUMBER
09:17:57:22    ONE, ENERGY, PEACE, AND
09:17:59:00    JUSTICE, RECEIVED 200 VOTES.
09:18:01:06    CSAI NUMBER TWO, NATIONAL
09:18:03:24    ECONOMIC REFORM, A MORAL
09:18:05:13    IMPERATIVE, RECEIVED 263
09:18:07:09    VOTES.
09:18:09:03    CSA NUMBER THREE, IMMIGRATION
09:18:10:28    AS A MORAL ISSUE, RECEIVED 520
09:18:12:27    VOTES.
09:18:14:18    CSAI NUMBER FOUR, ENDING
09:18:16:25    SLAVERY, RECEIVED 15 VOTES.
09:18:20:15    AND CSAI NUMBER FIVE,
09:18:22:06    REVITALIZING AMERICAN
09:18:23:28    DEMOCRACY, RECEIVED 201 VOTES.
09:18:26:03    AND THE PROVISION IS THAT IF
09:18:28:12    ANY OF THEM ACHIEVED A
09:18:29:18    MAJORITY YESTERDAY, WE WOULD
09:18:31:01    NOT BE HAVING A RUNOFF TODAY,
09:18:32:12    BUT NONE OF THEM RECEIVED THE
09:18:33:12    MAJORITY OF VOTES.
09:18:35:06    THEREFORE, NATIONAL ECONOMIC
09:18:36:28    REFORM WITH 263 VOTES
09:18:39:07    YESTERDAY AND IMMIGRATION AS A
09:18:41:00    MORAL ISSUE WHICH RECEIVED 520
09:18:43:06    VOTES YESTERDAY ARE OUR TWO
09:18:45:16    RUNOFF ISSUES.
09:18:46:15    I RECOGNIZE THE DELEGATE AT
09:18:48:12    THE PROCEDURAL MICROPHONE.
09:18:49:15    >> MY NAME IS MARSHA MEYERS
09:18:51:04    FROM FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF
09:18:52:27    PORTLAND, OREGON.
09:18:53:24    FOR THE PEOPLE THAT WEREN'T
09:18:55:03    HERE YESTERDAY AND AS A
09:18:56:13    TEACHER, I THINK IT'S
09:18:57:13    IMPORTANT THAT WE EXPLAIN JUST
09:18:59:18    VERY BRIEFLY WHAT HAPPENED SO
09:19:02:06    THAT ONE GOT 15 AND ONE GOT
09:19:04:10    500 AND SOME, BECAUSE THAT
09:19:06:18    DOES HAVE AN IMPACT ON VOTING.
09:19:10:06    I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S TOO
09:19:11:04    COMPLICATED, BUT IT'S PRETTY
09:19:12:12    SIMPLE.
09:19:13:07    WHY DID ONE ONLY GET 15?
09:19:19:16    >> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
09:19:20:10    BECAME CLEAR TO ME YESTERDAY
09:19:21:21    IN THE HALL IS THAT OUR
09:19:24:03    PROCESS, WE'RE NOT ALWAYS                             25
09:19:26:25    CLEAR TOGETHER ABOUT WHEN OUR
09:19:28:00    PROCESSES HAVE SPACE FOR
09:19:32:15    COLLABORATION AND WHEN
09:19:33:10    COLLABORATION PROBABLY ISN'T
09:19:34:15    AS EASY OR ISN'T AS USEFUL.
09:19:36:12    I'M NOT SURE.
09:19:38:00    WE ACTUALLY STARTED THIS YEAR
09:19:39:25    WITH ABOUT 12 PROPOSED
09:19:41:15    CONGREGATIONAL STUDY ACTION
09:19:42:21    ISSUES AND THE COMMISSION ON
09:19:45:00    SOCIAL WITNESS ASKED THOSE
09:19:46:28    THAT HAVE SIMILAR ISSUES TO
09:19:48:07    BUNDLE THEM TOGETHER TO TAKE
09:19:50:00    THREE ISSUES THAT SEEM TO BE
09:19:52:15    QUITE SIMILAR AND MAKE THEM
09:19:53:28    INTO ONE.
09:19:54:16    AND SO SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT
09:19:56:18    YOU SAW BEFORE YOU YESTERDAY
09:19:57:12    ACTUALLY HAD COME FROM TWO OR
09:19:58:24    THREE ISSUES ORIGINALLY
09:20:00:04    SUBMITTED.
09:20:01:22    THEIR GOAL WAS TO GET ISSUES
09:20:04:06    THAT ARE CLEARLY SEPARATE,
09:20:06:12    ALTHOUGH WE KNOW THAT BECAUSE
09:20:07:28    THEY ALL TALK ABOUT HOW WE
09:20:09:01    WILL PUT OUR VALUES INTO PLACE
09:20:12:09    IN OUR STUDY AND LEARNING AND
09:20:13:24    FINALLY MAKE A STATEMENT THAT
09:20:14:19    THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME
09:20:16:03    OVERLAP.
09:20:16:15    SO WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY WAS
09:20:18:15    THAT IN CONVERSATION IN THE
09:20:20:28    HALL, I PRESUME, THE FOLKS WHO
09:20:24:09    WERE PROPOSING CSAI NUMBER
09:20:27:12    FOUR, END SLAVERY, MADE COMMON
09:20:30:01    CAUSE WITH THE FOLKS
09:20:30:27    SUPPORTING CSAI NUMBER THREE,
09:20:33:27    IMMIGRATION AS A MORAL ISSUE.
09:20:36:04    AND I DIDN'T CATCH THAT WE HAD
09:20:40:06    PEOPLE SPEAKING FOR 4 AND THEN
09:20:42:04    SAYING THAT THEY WERE GOING TO
09:20:43:24    SUPPORT THREE INITIALLY.
09:20:44:18    WE TOOK CARE THAT HAVE
09:20:45:06    TOGETHER SO THAT WE WERE ALL
09:20:46:04    CLEAR ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON.
09:20:55:12    WE DON'T WANT TO TAKE AWAY
09:20:57:04    FROM THIS THAT ONLY 15
09:20:58:16    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS CARE
09:20:59:18    ABOUT ENDING SLAVERY.
09:21:08:15     [ APPLAUSE ]                                         26
09:21:09:00    >> I ALSO DON'T WANT TO YOU
09:21:10:09    TAKE AWARE FROM THIS THAT ONLY
09:21:12:27    200 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS
09:21:13:28    CARE ABOUT ENERGY, PEACE, AND
09:21:15:07    JUSTICE OR REVITALIZING OUR
09:21:16:24    DEMOCRACY.
09:21:17:06    THAT WOULD BE WRONG, TOO.
09:21:21:19    AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME
09:21:23:06    CONVERSATION WITH THE
09:21:25:15    REVITALIZING AMERICAN
09:21:27:00    DEMOCRACY FOLKS TO SEE WHAT WE
09:21:28:10    NEED TO DO TO REVITALIZE OUR
09:21:30:12    DEMOCRACY HERE.
09:21:32:18     [ LAUGHTER ]
09:21:33:00    >> THIS IS WHAT WE DO.
09:21:44:19    >> I THINK IT'S PROBABLY FAIR
09:21:46:04    TO SAY I WAS SURPRISED BY WHAT
09:21:47:12    HAPPENED IN THE HALL, BUT I
09:21:48:15    THINK WE CAN ALL AFFORD TO BE
09:21:50:03    SURPRISED AND THEN GO INTO
09:21:51:25    LEARNING MODE.
09:21:52:21    RIGHT?
09:21:54:18    SO WITH GREAT LOVE, LET'S TAKE
09:21:56:15    A VOTE.
09:21:59:01    YOU GET TO VOTE ONLY ONE OF
09:22:00:12    THE NEXT TWO TIMES.
09:22:04:15    FIND YOUR VOTING CARDS.
09:22:06:04    WE ARE CHOOSING A
09:22:07:10    CONGREGATIONAL STUDY-ACTION
09:22:08:18    ISSUE.
09:22:09:15    WHAT WE WILL FOCUS OUR
09:22:11:00    CONGREGATIONAL ATTENTION ON
09:22:12:19    TOGETHER OVER THE NEXT FOUR
09:22:14:07    YEARS TO STUDY MORE DEEPLY.
09:22:16:09    OUR FIRST CHOICE,
09:22:17:12    CONGREGATIONAL STUDY-ACTION
09:22:18:15    ISSUE NUMBER TWO, NATIONAL
09:22:19:24    ECONOMIC REFORM.
09:22:22:07    PLEASE RAISE YOUR VOTING CARDS
09:22:23:27    IF THAT IS YOUR CHOICE.
09:22:50:22    >> THANK YOU.
09:22:51:07    LOWER YOUR VOTING CARDS.
09:22:53:15    CSAI NUMBER THREE, IMMIGRATION
09:22:55:28    AS A MORAL ISSUE.
09:23:14:12    PLEASE LOWER YOUR VOTING
09:23:15:21    CARDS.
09:23:16:25    WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS ONE
09:23:18:12    MORE TIME.
09:23:19:09    WE THINK WE HAVE IT, BUT WE
09:23:20:06    WANT TO BE SURE.                                      27
09:23:21:18    ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF NATIONAL
09:23:23:25    ECONOMIC REFORM, PLEASE RAISE
09:23:25:07    YOUR VOTING CARDS, HOLD THEM
09:23:26:24    AS STEADY FOR US AS YOU CAN
09:23:29:15    WHILE WE USE OUR PHOTO SENSORS
09:23:31:07    IN OUR EYES.
09:23:33:21     [ LAUGHTER ]
09:23:52:06    READY, GORDON?
09:23:54:09    THANK YOU.
09:23:54:21    IMMIGRATION AS A MORAL ISSUE.
09:23:58:10    THANK YOU.
09:24:29:27    WE'RE ALL SEEING THE SAME
09:24:31:03    THING AND WE'VE BEEN LOOKING
09:24:32:00    FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
09:24:34:07    THE VOTE PREVAILS FOR
09:24:35:19    IMMIGRATION AS A MORAL ISSUE.
09:24:37:21     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:24:50:18    I'D LIKE TO THANK EVERYBODY
09:24:52:24    WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE
09:24:54:18    PROCESS OF HELPING US HAVE
09:24:57:12    GREAT CHOICES TO CHOOSE AMONG
09:24:59:27    AND TO CHOOSE SOMETHING WE
09:25:01:04    WILL STUDY TOGETHER AS A
09:25:02:06    PEOPLE OF FAITH.
09:25:03:27     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:25:04:06    >> I'M GOING TO RECOGNIZE THE
09:25:18:01    DELEGATE AT THE PROCEDURAL
09:25:19:09    MICROPHONE.
09:25:20:00    >> THANK YOU, MADAM MODERATOR.
09:25:23:00    I'M KENDRA MUNCA, THE
09:25:25:21    PRESENTER FOR REVITALIZING
09:25:28:12    AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
09:25:29:09    I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR
09:25:30:06    EFFORTS IN THIS PROCESS.
09:25:31:06    IT'S BEEN VERY COMPLICATED.
09:25:32:16    I AM FROM THE UNITARIAN
09:25:33:07    UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF
09:25:35:09    VENICE, FLORIDA, AND A NUMBER
09:25:37:09    OF PEOPLE FROM A NUMBER OF THE
09:25:39:28    CSAI PROPOSALS HAVE BEEN
09:25:41:27    DISCUSSING IDEAS THAT MIGHT
09:25:43:09    POSSIBLY IMPROVE THE PROCESS
09:25:44:21    IN COMING YEARS, AND I WOULD
09:25:48:01    LIKE TO PRESENT TOMORROW
09:25:50:06    RESPONSIVE RESOLUTION FOR RANK
09:25:53:04    CHOICE VOTING AMONG THE CSAI'S
09:25:56:00    SO THAT WE COULD ACTUALLY
09:25:57:18    ACCOMPLISH THE VOTING PERHAPS
09:25:58:18    IN ONE PLENARY AS OPPOSED TO
09:26:00:25    HAVING IT COME OVER TO A VOTE                         28
09:26:02:00    THE NEXT DAY.
09:26:02:24    AND I INVITE ANY OF THOSE
09:26:04:03    INTERESTED IN RANK CHOICE
09:26:05:15    VOTING, I THINK IT WAS
09:26:06:13    MENTIONED ACTUALLY DURING THE
09:26:07:09    PROCESS YESTERDAY.
09:26:08:06    >> IT WAS.
09:26:08:18    >> TO MEET WITH ME AT THE
09:26:10:12    TABLE OUTSIDE THE HALL AFTER
09:26:12:07    THE CONCLUSION OF TODAY'S
09:26:14:03    PLENARY.
09:26:14:24    AND I DO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
09:26:16:09    ALL OF YOUR GOOD EFFORTS FOR
09:26:18:04    THIS AND THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF
09:26:20:06    THIS PROCESS.
09:26:22:24    >> SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:26:25:10     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:26:25:19    >> SO WE GO TO WORK ON OUR
09:26:27:15    DEMOCRACY IMMEDIATELY.
09:26:28:18    EXCELLENT.
09:26:29:12    PLEASE WELCOME  -- HOW ARE WE?
09:26:32:01    WE DOING GOOD?
09:26:32:22    PROCEDURAL MICROPHONE AGAIN.
09:26:34:15    YES.
09:26:34:24    >> I'M STILL SANDRA CROW,
09:26:36:18    STILL FROM LONG BEACH.
09:26:37:27    AND THIS IS A QUESTION FOR
09:26:39:04    INFORMATION.
09:26:40:07    EXCUSE ME.
09:26:40:25    YESTERDAY'S SCHEDULE HAD A
09:26:45:24    MEETING NUMBER 3055,
09:26:47:25    IMPLEMENTING THE NEWLY ADOPTED
09:26:49:07    UUA STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE.
09:26:52:15    SINCE WE DIDN'T HAVE THE  --
09:26:54:22    I'M SORRY.
09:26:55:18    I'VE GOT THE WRONG NUMBER.
09:26:59:00    >> NO.
09:26:59:19    ACTUALLY, IT DOESN'T MATTER
09:27:00:18    THE NUMBER.
09:27:01:01    YOU'RE TECHNICALLY CORRECT.
09:27:03:06    THE WORKSHOP WAS SCHEDULED FOR
09:27:04:06    YESTERDAY, AND WE DECIDED THAT
09:27:05:16    IT WAS BETTER PROBABLY NOT TO
09:27:06:27    DO THAT SINCE WE DIDN'T HAVE
09:27:08:09    ONE.
09:27:08:15    >> RIGHT.
09:27:08:27    >> BUT I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE
09:27:10:01    GOING TO  -- WELL, OKAY.
09:27:11:24    ANYWAY  --
09:27:13:09     [ LAUGHTER ]                                         29
09:27:13:24    >> WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM
09:27:16:03    THE CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION ON
09:27:17:04    SOCIAL WITNESS WHO'S BEEN
09:27:18:10    TRYING TO SCHEDULE, TO
09:27:20:06    RESCHEDULE ON WHEN WE CAN HAVE
09:27:21:15    A WORKSHOP ON WHAT WILL NOW BE
09:27:24:09    IMMIGRATION REFORM.
09:27:25:07    CORRECT?
09:27:25:19    >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:27:26:15    >> OKAY.
09:27:27:06    AND DO WE HAVE THAT NOW,
09:27:28:18    MR. MAY?
09:27:29:24    HERE HE COMES.
09:27:30:12    LET'S THANK THE CHAIR OF THE
09:27:31:22    COMMISSION ON SOCIAL WITNESS,
09:27:32:27    DAVID MAY.
09:27:33:18     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:27:34:00    >> THANK YOU.
09:27:43:03    THE HEARING ON THE
09:27:44:24    NEWLY-SELECTED CONGREGATIONAL
09:27:46:09    STUDY-ACTION ISSUE ON
09:27:47:19    IMMIGRATION WILL BE FROM 4:00
09:27:49:06    P.M. TO 5:15 P.M. IN THE
09:27:52:06    CONVENTION CENTER, ROOM 201.
09:27:57:18    OKAY?
09:27:57:27    THIS AFTERNOON, 4:00 TO 5:15
09:28:00:21    IN 201.
09:28:08:00    >> PERFECT, PERFECT.
09:28:09:06    WE GOOD?
09:28:10:21    ALL RIGHT.
09:28:12:01    NOW PLEASE WELCOME THE
09:28:13:01    REVEREND ERIC CHERRY TO
09:28:15:18    INTRODUCE SOME GUESTS AT OUR
09:28:17:00    ASSEMBLY.
09:28:17:24     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:28:18:06    >> GOOD MORNING, GENERAL
09:28:29:06    ASSEMBLY, AND THANK YOU, GINI.
09:28:32:13    FRIENDS, WE ARE BLESSED TO BE
09:28:35:22    JOINED BY SEVEN FAITH
09:28:38:12    COMMUNITIES FROM AROUND THE
09:28:40:03    WORLD AT THIS YEAR'S GENERAL
09:28:41:19    ASSEMBLY.
09:28:43:15    SOME OF OUR GUESTS ARE OLD
09:28:46:00    FRIENDS AND SOME ARE NEW
09:28:49:07    FRIENDS.
09:28:49:28    MANY ARE UNITARIANS AND
09:28:52:12    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS,
09:28:54:00    THOUGH TWO ARE VERY DEAR AND
09:28:56:07    HISTORIC INTERFAITH FRIENDS.
09:29:00:27    THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST                            30
09:29:02:15    ASSOCIATION'S SIXTH PRINCIPLE
09:29:05:12    DECLARES THAT WE COVENANT TO
09:29:07:09    AFFIRM AND PROMOTE THE GOAL OF
09:29:10:13    WORLD COMMUNITY WITH PEACE,
09:29:12:18    LIBERTY, AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
09:29:15:27    MAY THE TIME THAT WE ALL SHARE
09:29:18:07    TOGETHER AT GENERAL ASSEMBLY
09:29:20:00    THIS YEAR CONTRIBUTE TO THE
09:29:22:09    ACHIEVEMENT OF THAT VISION.
09:29:25:27    WE ARE SO GLAD TO WELCOME EACH
09:29:27:12    OF YOU, OUR HONORED GUESTS.
09:29:30:16    I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE
09:29:32:06    GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO HOLD YOUR
09:29:33:24    APPLAUSE UNTIL ALL OF OUR
09:29:36:09    INTERNATIONAL GUESTS HAVE BEEN
09:29:38:01    INTRODUCED.
09:29:41:09    FIRST, FROM THE FREE UNITARIAN
09:29:43:27    CONGREGATION OF MEXICO CITY,
09:29:46:15    WE ARE HONORED TO HAVE LAY
09:29:49:03    MINISTER FRANCISCO JAVIE
09:29:51:15    LAGUNES GAITAN WITH US.
09:29:54:16    >> IF YOU WOULD PLEASE HOLD
09:29:57:06    YOUR APPLAUSE UNTIL THE END.
09:29:59:13    >> SECONDLY, FROM THE CANADIAN
09:30:02:24    UNITARIAN COUNCIL, WE ARE
09:30:04:00    HONORED TO HAVE EXECUTIVE
09:30:05:06    DIRECTOR MS. JENNIFER DICKSON
09:30:07:13    WITH US, ALTHOUGH SHE IS
09:30:08:12    UNABLE TO BE HERE THIS
09:30:09:24    MORNING.
09:30:12:28    WE ARE ALSO HONORED TO HAVE
09:30:15:15    REPRESENTING THE TRANSYLVANIA
09:30:19:03    UNITARIAN CHURCH THE COUNSELOR
09:30:20:28    TO THE BISHOP, REVEREND DAVID
09:30:23:24    GYERO, FROM THE UNITARIAN
09:30:30:07    CHURCH OF HUNGARY, WE ARE
09:30:34:00    HONORED TO HAVE THE MINISTER
09:30:36:07    OF THE FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH
09:30:38:06    OF BUDAPEST WITH US, REVEREND
09:30:40:03    JOZSEF KASZONI.
09:30:42:04    WE ALSO WELCOME ERIC HAUSMAN,
09:30:46:06    REPRESENTING THE GERMAN
09:30:47:03    UNITARIANS.
09:30:47:27    AND EACH OF YOU HAS COME AS
09:30:50:10    REPRESENTATIVES OF MEMBER
09:30:52:00    GROUPS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
09:30:53:21    COUNCIL OF UNITARIANS AND
09:30:55:21    UNIVERSALISTS, OWN AS THE
09:30:57:06    ICUU, AND WE ARE ALL GRATEFUL
09:31:02:07    FOR THE COLLEGIAL WORK THAT                           31
09:31:06:09    THE ICUU PROMOTES ALONG ALL OF
09:31:08:25    ITS MEMBERS AND THE NEARLY 40
09:31:11:00    LARGE AND SMALL UNITARIAN AND
09:31:14:06    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
09:31:14:25    WORSHIPING COMMUNITIES AROUND
09:31:18:18    THE WORLD.
09:31:19:03    AND FOR THAT REASON, IT IS A
09:31:20:09    DEEP HONOR TO WELCOME THE
09:31:21:13    REVEREND STEVE DICK, EXECUTIVE
09:31:24:15    SECRETARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL
09:31:26:18    COUNCIL OF UNITARIANS AND
09:31:29:22    UNIVERSALISTS TO OUR GENERAL
09:31:30:25    ASSEMBLY.
09:31:33:03    IN THE SAME WAY, WE CHERISH
09:31:36:15    RELATIONSHIPS WITH INTERFAITH
09:31:37:25    PARTNERS.
09:31:38:16    MANY OF OUR INTERFAITH
09:31:40:12    RELATIONSHIPS HAVE EXISTED FOR
09:31:42:06    DECADES, AND HAVE BEEN MARKED
09:31:44:16    BY BOTH WARM FRIENDSHIP AND
09:31:48:00    ESPECIALLY SHARED COMMITMENT
09:31:50:00    TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND
09:31:53:13    PEACE.
09:31:53:25    IT IS A TRULY GREAT HONOR TO
09:31:57:18    WELCOME GUJI YUKIYASU
09:31:58:03    YAMAMOTO, CHIEF PRIEST OF
09:32:01:22    TSUBAKI GRAND SHRINE, SHINTO,
09:32:04:00    TO BE WITH US.
09:32:05:15    TOGETHER WE CELEBRATE THE
09:32:06:15    ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOLARSHIPS
09:32:08:22    FOR 3UU SEMINARIANS TO SPEND
09:32:12:00    TWO WEEKS EACH AT TSUBAKI
09:32:15:04    GRAND SHRINE THIS YEAR, AND WE
09:32:17:03    LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING A
09:32:18:27    TSUBAKI PRIEST TO THE UNITED
09:32:20:09    STATES FOR TWO OR THREE MONTHS
09:32:22:07    IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
09:32:25:21    AND RECEIVE REND MASAMICHI
09:32:28:13    KAMIYA, RISSHO KOSEI-KAI
09:32:29:25    MINISTER IN NEW YORK CITY
09:32:31:21    ATTENDS OUR GENERAL ASSEMBLY
09:32:34:12    THIS YEAR.
09:32:35:06    RISSHO KOSEI-KAI IS A LAY
09:32:36:22    BUDDHIST RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT
09:32:38:10    WITH WHICH THE UUA HAS
09:32:40:12    COLLABORATED ON PEACEMAKING
09:32:42:16    AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM SINCE
09:32:44:16    THE 1960'S.
09:32:46:15    THIS YEAR WE CELEBRATE THE
09:32:48:03    GRADUATION OF AN RKK MEMBER,                          32
09:32:51:12    KYOHEI MIKAWA, FROM
09:32:53:18    MEADVILLE-LOMBARD THEOLOGICAL
09:32:55:21    SCHOOL, AND THE COMPLETION OF
09:32:57:10    AN INTERNSHIP AT THE UU
09:32:58:21    CONGREGATION IN CLEAR WATER,
09:33:00:21    FLORIDA, BY RKK MEMBER NICK
09:33:02:28    OZUNA.
09:33:04:00    AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO
09:33:05:12    CONTINUING OUR DEEP FRIENDSHIP
09:33:07:15    AND COLLABORATIVE WORK WITH
09:33:09:19    RISSHO KOSEI-KAI IN THE YEARS
09:33:10:22    TO COME.
09:33:13:06    UNFORTUNATELY, REVEREND KAMIYA
09:33:15:22    IS UNABLE TO BE WITH US THIS
09:33:17:16    MORNING.
09:33:19:03    THE UUA'S HOLDEEN INDIA
09:33:22:24    PROGRAM HAS BEEN SUPPORTING
09:33:24:01    SOCIAL CHANGE WORK IN INDIA
09:33:25:15    SINCE 1984.
09:33:28:06    AND WE ARE DEEPLY HONORED TO
09:33:31:00    WELCOME MS. REEMA NANAVATY, A
09:33:33:06    DIRECTOR OF THE SELF-EMPLOYED
09:33:35:15    WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION, A 25-YEAR
09:33:38:04    PARTNER OF THE HOLDEEN
09:33:40:27    PROGRAM.
09:33:41:09    SEWA IS IMPROVING AND CHANGING
09:33:43:03    THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF
09:33:44:06    PEOPLE IN INDIA AND WE ARE
09:33:46:01    GRATEFUL TO BE A SMALL PART OF
09:33:48:12    THE INCREDIBLE WORK WHICH SEWA
09:33:52:07    IS PROVIDING.
09:33:54:00    GENERAL ASSEMBLY, WOULD YOU
09:33:55:00    PLEASE WELCOME ALL OF THESE
09:33:56:18    FRIENDS AND LEADERS TO OUR
09:33:58:09    AGAIN.
09:33:59:06    [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
09:33:59:25    >> PLEASE NOW WELCOME THE
09:34:20:21    REVEREND HARLAN LIMB PERMIT TO
09:34:23:22    PRESENT AN IMPORTANT AN AWARD.
09:34:27:24     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:34:30:15    >> THE O. EUGENE PICKET AWARD
09:34:33:15    IS GIVEN ANNUALLY BY THE UUA
09:34:35:28    TO THE CONGREGATION THAT HAS
09:34:37:01    MADE AN OUTSTANDING
09:34:38:06    CONTRIBUTION TO THE GROWTH OF
09:34:39:21    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM.
09:34:40:21    NOMINATIONS FOR THE AWARD ARE
09:34:42:13    MADE BY THE DISTRICTS.
09:34:44:22    SELECTION OF A WINNER IS BASED
09:34:47:00    ON HONOR SOCIETY STATUS,                              33
09:34:49:04    NUMERICAL GROWTH BOTH IN ADULT
09:34:51:03    MEMBERS AND CHILDREN IN CHURCH
09:34:54:03    SCHOOL, AND ON THE WAYS IN
09:34:55:07    WHICH THE CONGREGATION HAS
09:34:56:21    EXPRESSED ITS COMMITMENT TO
09:34:58:18    THE MULTI-FACETED GROWTH OF
09:35:00:27    ITS MEMBERSHIP AND THE GROWTH
09:35:02:22    OF UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM.
09:35:05:18    THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2010 O.
09:35:08:03    EUGENE PICKET AWARD IS THE
09:35:10:06    FIRST PARISH IN BEDFORD,
09:35:12:15    MASSACHUSETTS.
09:35:14:00    [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
09:35:16:03    >> THIS CONGREGATION, THIS
09:35:19:09    CONGREGATION, FOUNDED IN 1729,
09:35:22:09    HAS GROWN STEADILY IN NUMBERS
09:35:24:04    OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS, AND
09:35:26:09    HAS BEEN A VITAL PRESENCE IN
09:35:28:06    THEIR COMMUNITY AND WITHIN
09:35:30:00    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM AS A
09:35:30:25    WHOLE.
09:35:33:06    ONE OF THEIR GUIDING THEMES IS
09:35:35:00    THE NOTION THAT THE CHURCH HAS
09:35:37:10    LEFT THE BUILDING AND THEY
09:35:39:00    HAVE LONG BEEN A LEADING VOICE
09:35:41:06    FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THEIR
09:35:42:21    COMMUNITIES.
09:35:47:04    AFTER COORDINATING MEMORIAL
09:35:49:00    SERVICES FOR TWO SOLDIERS
09:35:51:00    KILLED IN IRAQ, THE FIRST
09:35:53:04    PARISH AS PROVIDED OUTREACH TO
09:35:54:27    THE FEEDS OF RETURNING
09:35:56:00    VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES,
09:35:57:12    AS WELL AS HOSTING FORUMS ON
09:35:59:00    PUBLIC POLICY THAT HAVE
09:36:00:01    FEATURED PROMINENT GUESTS SUCH
09:36:02:03    AS THE LATE SENATOR TED
09:36:04:18    KENNEDY.
09:36:05:16    IN THE LONGSTANDING PARTNER
09:36:07:18    CHURCH RELATIONSHIP, THEY HAVE
09:36:09:15    SENT OVER 80 PARISHIONERS TO
09:36:11:21    TRANSYLVANIA.
09:36:14:27     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:36:15:09    FIRST PARISH HAS BEEN SERVED
09:36:17:03    BY MANY AUGUST MINISTERS IN
09:36:19:01    THEIR 281 YEAR HISTORY.
09:36:21:06    THEIR CURRENT MINISTRY TEAM
09:36:23:00    INCLUDES MINISTER EMERITUS,
09:36:25:16    THE REVEREND JACK MENDELSOHN,
09:36:28:12    COMMUNITY MINISTER, THE                               34
09:36:29:09    REVEREND BILL SCHULZ, PARISH
09:36:31:21    MINISTER, THE REVEREND MEGAN
09:36:34:06    LYNES, AND THEIR SENIOR
09:36:35:24    MINISTER, THE REVEREND JOHN
09:36:38:15    GIBBONS, WHO ALSO SERVED AS
09:36:39:19    PRESIDENT OF THE UNITARIAN
09:36:41:12    UNIVERSALIST SERVICE
09:36:42:18    COMMITTEE.
09:36:44:12    REVEREND GIBBONS AND RECEIVE
09:36:46:28    ROBBED LYONS, WOULD YOU PLEASE
09:36:48:27    COME FORWARD TO ACCEPT THE
09:36:51:12    AWARD CERTIFICATE AND THE
09:36:52:24    CHECK ON BEHALF OF FIRST
09:36:54:04    PARISH IN BEDFORD?
09:36:56:07     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:37:19:03    >> IT'S FILE FOR AN UPDATE ON
09:37:20:19    HOW WE'RE STANDING ON THE SIDE
09:37:21:22    OF LOVE.
09:37:22:12    PLEASE WELCOME ADAM
09:37:23:12    GERHARDSTEIN.
09:37:25:06     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:37:25:18    >> I AM ADAM GERHARDSTEIN AND
09:37:33:09    I'M THE CAMPAIGN MANAGER OF
09:37:34:06    THE STANDING ON THE SIDE OF
09:37:35:04    LOVE CAMPAIGN.
09:37:39:09     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:37:39:15    >> THE STANDING ON THE SIDE OF
09:37:40:15    LOVE CAMPAIGN WAS CREATED TO
09:37:41:21    CHANGE THE WORLD.
09:37:44:15    TO ACCOMPLISH THAT, WE WERE
09:37:45:27    EQUIPPED WITH ONLY THREE
09:37:47:06    THINGS.
09:37:49:13    FIRST, UNITARIAN
09:37:50:01    UNIVERSALISM'S CORE BELIEF
09:37:53:06    THAT NO ONE SHOULD BE LEFT
09:37:54:12    BEHIND.
09:37:55:21    THAT WE ALL HAVE INHERENT
09:37:57:24    WORTH AND DIGNITY.
09:37:59:12    SECOND, THE HARD WORK,
09:38:02:01    COMMITMENT, AND PASSION OF THE
09:38:04:12    PEOPLE WHO WOULD MAKE THIS
09:38:05:18    CAMPAIGN COME TO LIFE:  YOU.
09:38:09:10    AND THIRD, AN UNDERSTANDING
09:38:11:24    THAT WE WERE TRYING SOMETHING
09:38:14:06    NEW.
09:38:14:25    THIS MEANT THAT WE WOULD
09:38:16:07    SUCCEED, FAIL, DISAGREE, AND
09:38:19:03    CHANGE COURSE EVERYDAY, BUT WE
09:38:22:13    WOULD ALWAYS, ALWAYS EMBRACE
09:38:25:09    THE JOY AND PAIN THAT YOU FIND                        35
09:38:27:18    ON THE SIDE OF LOVE.
09:38:31:13    WE LEARNED THAT WHEN YOU COME
09:38:32:24    TO THE TABLE WITH THE CORE OF
09:38:34:21    OUR FAITH, A WILLINGNESS TO
09:38:37:06    WORK HARD, AND A BOLDNESS THAT
09:38:40:12    WILL OVERCOME SETBACKS, YOU
09:38:42:12    WILL CHANGE THE WORLD EVERY
09:38:44:00    SINGLE DAY.
09:38:45:10    AND THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS
09:38:46:09    LIKE.
09:38:54:15    >> THE GREAT WRITER ZORA NEALE
09:39:02:03    HURSTON SAID THAT FEAR WAS THE
09:39:04:25    GREATEST EMOTION ON THE PLANET
09:39:07:03    EARTH AND I SAID, NO, MY DEAR
09:39:08:09    SISTER.
09:39:08:27    FEAR WILL MAKE US MOVE TO SAVE
09:39:10:06    OUR LIVES, TO SAVE OUR OWN
09:39:11:19    SKINS, BUT LOVE WILL MAKE US
09:39:13:06    SAVE OTHER PEOPLE'S SKINS AND
09:39:14:15    LIVES.
09:39:16:10    >> LOVE HEAL, LOVE RECONCILES,
09:39:19:15    LOVE HELPS US MOVE WHEN WE'RE
09:39:21:00    STUCK.
09:39:21:19    >> WE HAVE TO STOP THE
09:39:22:22    PREJUDICE.
09:39:23:16    WE HAVE TO STOP THE HATING.
09:39:25:12    WE HAVE TO STOP LIVING IN FEAR
09:39:27:15    OF OUR OWN NEIGHBORS.
09:39:29:19    >> IT TAKES A UNIQUE
09:39:31:00    INDIVIDUAL TO HUG SOMEONE, AND
09:39:34:00    TELL THEM, BROTHER, I LOVE
09:39:36:04    YOU.
09:39:37:24    IT'S NOT A SIGN OF WEAKNESS.
09:39:40:18    QUITE THE CONTRARY.
09:39:42:07    IT IS A SIGN OF THE ULTIMATE
09:39:43:16    STRENGTH.
09:39:44:06    THROUGH LOVE YOU CAN DO ALL
09:39:45:09    THINGS.
09:39:50:19    IN ARIZONA'S CONSTITUTION
09:39:52:12    DEFINE MARRIAGE AS BETWEEN A
09:39:53:24    MAN AND A WOMAN.
09:39:54:18    >> THE REVEREND VOWS NOT TO
09:39:56:15    SIGN ANY MORE MARRIAGE
09:39:57:16    LICENSES UNTIL SAME-SEX
09:39:58:16    COUPLES CAN LEGALLY MARRY.
09:40:00:27    >> I CAN NO LONG NEAR GOOD
09:40:02:00    CONSCIENCE AND GOOD FAITH,
09:40:03:03    CONTINUE TO SIGN THE MARRIAGE
09:40:04:07    LICENSE FOR HETEROSEXUAL
09:40:07:09    COUPLES UNTIL I CAN SIGN                              36
09:40:08:09    MARRIAGE LICENSES FOR ALL
09:40:09:03    COUPLES.
09:40:12:10    >> MR. CHAIRMAN, MY FAITH
09:40:17:10    TEACHES ME THAT WHERE LOVE IS
09:40:18:25    PRESENT, GOD IS ALSO PRESENT,
09:40:21:24    FOR GOD IS LOVE.
09:40:24:13    WHEN THE STATE DENIES EQUAL
09:40:26:00    PROTECTION AND SECURITY TO
09:40:28:09    SOME COUPLES SIMPLY BECAUSE OF
09:40:30:19    THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION, THE
09:40:32:24    STATE HARMS THEM.
09:40:34:21    FOR THESE REASONS,
09:40:36:03    MR. CHAIRMAN, I SURGE THE
09:40:38:01    COUNCIL TO PASS THIS
09:40:39:09    LEGISLATION, AND TO STAND ON
09:40:41:12    THE SIDE OF LOVE.
09:40:43:04    >> WE STAND IN FULL AND
09:40:54:12    UNEQUIVOCAL SUPPORT OF
09:40:56:24    IMMIGRANT FAMILIES.
09:40:58:15    ONLY COMPASSION CAN MAKE THE
09:41:00:21    WORLD FAIR AND JUST AND SAFE.
09:41:05:21    >> OUR FAITH TELL US HERE
09:41:09:15    UNITED TO SPEAK, TO STAND, TO
09:41:13:12    MOVE, TOGETHER.
09:41:15:07    MAY IT BE SO.
09:41:19:24     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:41:26:24    THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO FOLLOW
09:41:28:15    THAT VIDEO.
09:41:29:15    ON THE COUNT OF THREE, I WANT
09:41:31:15    EVERYBODY IN THIS PLENARY HALL
09:41:32:24    TO SHOUT OUT "WE STAND ON THE
09:41:34:27    SIDE OF LOVE!
09:41:36:12    " YOU READY?
09:41:38:07    ONE, TWO, THREE.
09:41:40:18    WE STAND ON THE SIDE OF LOVE!
09:41:46:15    [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
09:41:52:22    >> I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A
09:41:54:07    YEAR TO DO THAT.
09:41:55:15    AND WHAT A YEAR IT'S BEEN.
09:41:57:15    ON OCTOBER 11TH, OVER 1,000 OF
09:41:59:19    YOU MARCHED ON WASHINGTON,
09:42:02:18    CALLING FOR FULL EQUALITY FOR
09:42:03:27    GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND
09:42:05:18    TRANSGENDERED PEOPLE.
09:42:07:16    HUNDREDS OF YOU THEN RETURNED
09:42:08:16    ON MARCH 21ST, CALLING FOR
09:42:10:18    IMMIGRATION REFORM.
09:42:12:18    IN THE MIDDLE OF COLD
09:42:14:10    FEBRUARY, OVER 150 OF YOUR
09:42:17:21    COMMUNITIES REIMAGINED                                37
09:42:20:03    VALENTINE'S DAY BY
09:42:21:07    PARTICIPATING IN INTERNATIONAL
09:42:22:07    STANDING ON THE SIDE OF LOVE
09:42:23:07    DAY, INCLUDING COURAGEOUS
09:42:25:12    UGANDAN UU'S, WHO HOLD A
09:42:32:06    CONFERENCE FOR THE GAY AND
09:42:33:15    LESBIAN COMMUNITY, UNDER THE
09:42:35:04    THREAT THAT WOULD MAKE
09:42:36:07    HOMOSEXUALITY PUNISHABLE BY
09:42:38:06    DEATH.
09:42:38:18     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:42:44:13    >> OVER 30 NEWS OUTLETS
09:42:47:00    COVERED OUR ACTIONS ALL ACROSS
09:42:48:24    THE GLOBE.
09:42:51:10    ON APRIL 14TH, WHEN SARAH
09:42:53:15    PALIN SPOKE AT A TEA PARTY
09:42:55:24    RALLY IN BOSTON, A GROUP OF
09:42:58:04    YOU SHOWED UP WITH A BANNER,
09:42:59:22    HOMEMADE SIGNS, AND TALKING
09:43:01:18    POINTS.
09:43:03:00    WHEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAME
09:43:04:19    OVER, THIS IS WHAT YOU SAID.
09:43:07:21    PUBLIC DISCOURSE IS GREAT.
09:43:10:12    THERE IS ROOM FOR THE TEA
09:43:11:06    PARTY.
09:43:12:16    BUT THERE IS NO ROOM FOR
09:43:13:16    RACISM, HOMOPHOBE I CAN'T, OR
09:43:15:18    ANTI-IMMIGRANT SENTIMENT.
09:43:18:09    [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
09:43:18:22    >> I THINK YOU IMPRESSED ME
09:43:28:01    MOST ON MAY 29TH.
09:43:30:12    OVER 500 OF YOU ANSWERED THE
09:43:32:18    CALL TO GO TO ARIZONA AND
09:43:34:09    MARCH AGAINST THE DEVASTATING
09:43:36:01    ANTI-IMMIGRANT LAW SB1070.
09:43:40:06    YOU SAW YOUNG LATINOS WEARING
09:43:42:13    SHIRTS SAYING UNDOCUMENTED AND
09:43:44:09    UNAFRAID.
09:43:45:00    YOU HEARD UNDOCUMENTED
09:43:46:06    IMMIGRANTS SPEAK OF THE FEAR
09:43:47:21    THEY FACE EACH TIME THEY LEAVE
09:43:49:16    FOR THE GROCERY STORE,
09:43:51:00    WONDERING IF THEY WILL BE
09:43:52:12    STOPPED, DETAINED, AND
09:43:53:28    SEPARATED FROM THEIR FAMILIES.
09:43:57:06    AND YOU WORE THESE BRIGHT
09:43:58:09    YELLOW T-SHIRTS AND PROUDLY
09:44:00:13    BECAME KNOWN AS THE LOVE
09:44:02:04    PEOPLE.
09:44:04:12     [ APPLAUSE ]                                         38
09:44:04:27    >> AFTER ONE YEAR, THE LOVE
09:44:09:21    PEOPLE HAVE HELD 200 COMMUNITY
09:44:11:27    EVENTS, RECEIVED COVERAGE IN
09:44:14:13    133 NEWS STORIES, AND FILLED
09:44:17:09    OUT 27,000 POSTCARDS,
09:44:19:06    PETITIONS, AND LETTERS.
09:44:20:28    26,000 OF YOU RECEIVED OUR
09:44:23:06    E-MAILS AND 16,000 OF YOU
09:44:25:00    FOUND US ON FACEBOOK.
09:44:27:21    YOU WATCHED OUR YOUTUBE VIDEOS
09:44:29:22    30,000 TIMES AND VISITED OUR
09:44:31:09    WEBSITES 83,000 TIMES.
09:44:34:16    AND IN TWO HOURS, ALL 3,000 OF
09:44:37:18    YOU ARE GOING TO WITNESS FOR
09:44:39:21    LGBT EQUALITY FOUR BLOCKS FROM
09:44:42:10    HERE.
09:44:43:04     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:44:49:15    THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS A
09:44:51:01    BEAUTIFUL BEGINNING.
09:44:53:21    IN THE UPCOMING YEAR, STANDING
09:44:55:09    ON THE SIDE OF LOVE IS GOING
09:44:56:09    TO BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER
09:44:57:16    BEFORE.
09:44:59:16    13 STATES ARE CONSIDERING
09:45:01:12    LEGISLATION SIMILAR TO SB1070
09:45:03:24    IN ARIZONA AND THE NOVEMBER
09:45:05:13    ELECTIONS ARE GOING TO GET
09:45:07:15    UGLY.
09:45:09:03    OUR VOICES OF COMPASSION AND
09:45:10:24    CIVILITY MUST BE HEARD.
09:45:14:12    NOW, THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY
09:45:16:27    OF THE STANDING ON THE SIDE OF
09:45:17:24    LOVE CAMPAIGN IS TO CREATE
09:45:19:22    CHANGE IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES.
09:45:22:18    AND WE WANT TO GIVE YOU
09:45:23:19    EVERYTHING WE CAN TO HELP MAKE
09:45:25:15    THAT HAPPEN.
09:45:26:21    SO WE'VE CREATED ACTIVIST
09:45:28:27    FLASH DRIVES.
09:45:30:09    PRELOADED WITH ALL OF THE
09:45:31:19    THINGS YOU NEED TO STAND ON
09:45:32:19    THE SIDE OF LOVE IN YOUR
09:45:34:09    COMMUNITY.
09:45:34:24    IT HAS VIDEOS LIKE THE ONE YOU
09:45:36:12    JUST SAW, MUSIC, LOGOS,
09:45:38:16    ORGANIZING AND MEDIA
09:45:39:18    RESOURCES, CASE STUDIES OF HOW
09:45:41:09    THIS HAS BEEN USED LOCALLY,
09:45:43:19    AND WORSHIP RESOURCES.
09:45:46:27    NOW, TO GET ONE, ALL YOU HAVE                         39
09:45:48:00    TO DO IS BRING $20 TO THE
09:45:51:13    ADVOCACY AND WITNESS BOOTH,
09:45:53:21    NUMBER 417 IN THE WITNESS
09:45:55:06    HALL.
09:45:55:21    FINALLY, ON A PERSONAL NOTE,
09:45:59:18    THIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS MY
09:46:00:27    LAST BIG HURRAH AS CAMPAIGN
09:46:03:06    MANAGER.
09:46:04:28    LEADING THIS CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN
09:46:07:00    THE BIGGEST PRIVILEGE OF MY
09:46:08:09    LIFE AND I'VE GIVEN IT ALL
09:46:11:06    THAT I HAVE.
09:46:13:04    IN THE FALL I BEGIN LAW SCHOOL
09:46:15:09    JUST THREE BLOCKS FROM HERE AT
09:46:17:12    THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS,
09:46:19:19    BUT I AM 100% CERTAIN THAT
09:46:21:18    THIS CAMPAIGN WILL THRIVE
09:46:23:12    WHILE MY HEAD IS BURIED IN
09:46:25:00    BOOKS.
09:46:26:00    SO THE THING IS, IT'S
09:46:29:03    ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY THAT THIS
09:46:31:00    CAMPAIGN BE CONSTANTLY
09:46:33:06    REFUELED WITH NEW ENERGY, NEW
09:46:36:00    IDEAS, AND NEW SKILLS.
09:46:38:12    AND THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT IS
09:46:39:24    TO BRING IN NEW LEADERSHIP.
09:46:41:28    SO I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE THE
09:46:43:21    NEW CAMPAIGN MANAGER, DAN
09:46:47:00    FURMANSKY.
09:46:48:22     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:46:49:01    >> DAN IS THE FORMER DIRECTOR
09:46:50:12    OF EQUALITY MARYLAND AND HAS A
09:46:52:09    DECADE OF ORGANIZING
09:46:53:09    EXPERIENCES.
09:46:53:21    THERE HE IS.
09:46:59:18    GOOD MORNING.
09:47:06:06    ADAM GERHARDSTEIN IS DONE.
09:47:08:06     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:47:08:21    >> I AM SO DEEPLY HONORED TO
09:47:25:03    BE A PART OF THIS AWE
09:47:27:01    INSPIRING CAMPAIGN THAT WAS
09:47:29:18    BUILT WITH SUCH INCREDIBLE
09:47:31:21    HEART AND SUCH INCREDIBLE
09:47:33:16    SOUL, AND THIS MORNING AS I
09:47:36:06    BEGIN MY JOURNEY LEADING THIS
09:47:38:06    CAMPAIGN, I ASK ALL OF YOU,
09:47:40:25    ARE YOU READY TO GIVE A VOICE
09:47:42:15    TO YOUR IDEALS?
09:47:44:12    >> YES!
09:47:46:21    >> AND I ASK YOU, RIGHT HERE,                         40
09:47:48:21    RIGHT NOW, THIS MORNING, ARE
09:47:50:27    YOU READY TO STAND ON THE SIDE
09:47:52:21    OF LOVE?
09:47:55:10    >> YES!
09:47:56:06    >> EXCELLENT.
09:47:58:24    IF YOU ARE ABLE AND WILLING, I
09:48:01:15    ASK YOU ALL TO JOIN ME IN
09:48:02:25    STANDING, SHAKE OUT THOSE ARMS
09:48:06:18    A LITTLE BIT, MAYBE DO A
09:48:09:07    LITTLE QUAD STRETCH REAL
09:48:10:18    QUICK, AND WHAT WE ARE GOING
09:48:11:27    TO DO RIGHT NOW IS HAVE
09:48:13:03    OURSELVES A GENUINE LOVE FEST.
09:48:18:24    ADAM, CAN YOU COUNT OFF 30
09:48:20:00    SECONDS?
09:48:21:00    AND WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO IS
09:48:22:16    FEEL THE POWER OF LOVE AND
09:48:24:09    CHANT LOVE FOR 30 SECONDS
09:48:26:00    STRAIGHT.
09:48:27:13    ARE WE READY?
09:48:30:21    LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE,
09:48:34:07    LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE,
09:48:38:03    LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE,
09:48:42:01    LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE,
09:48:45:27    LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE,
09:48:49:15    LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE,
09:48:53:15    LOVE.
09:48:55:13     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:48:56:01    >> TOGETHER WE ARE GOING TO
09:48:59:18    CHANGE THE WORLD.
09:49:04:16     [ APPLAUSE ]
09:49:04:25    >> OH, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE A
09:49:15:24    WELCOME JUST AS WARM AS THAT
09:49:17:06    TO OUR SECOND BREAKTHROUGH
09:49:19:06    CONGREGATION, UNITARIAN CHURCH
09:49:21:12    OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.
09:49:23:03    REVEREND HOWARD DANA.
09:49:30:15    >> THANK YOU, GINI, AND GOOD
09:49:34:01    MORNING.
09:49:34:13    I AM REVEREND HOWARD DANA AND
09:49:36:06    I AM THE SENIOR MINISTER AT
09:49:37:27    THE UNITARIAN CHURCH OF
09:49:39:09    HARRISBURG, AND IT IS AN HONOR
09:49:40:16    AND A PRIVILEGE TO STAND ON
09:49:42:27    THIS STAGE AND TO HAVE BEEN
09:49:44:12    THE RECIPIENT OF A
09:49:45:22    BREAKTHROUGH CONGREGATION
09:49:46:19    AWARD THIS YEAR.
09:49:48:06    THIS AWARD COULD NOT HAVE COME
09:49:49:21    AT A BETTER TIME FOR OUR                              41
09:49:51:00    CONGREGATION, AS WE DO BOLD
09:49:52:19    THINGS TO LIVE OUT OUR MISSION
09:49:54:21    IN THE WORLD.
09:49:56:06    YOU WILL VERY SOON SEE OUR
09:49:57:18    VIDEO, BUT I WANT TO VERY
09:49:58:28    BRIEFLY INTRODUCE SOME FOLKS
09:50:00:07    WHO ARE HERE ON THE STAGE WITH
09:50:01:24    ME.
09:50:03:21    REVEREND SUZANNE MARSH IS OUR
09:50:06:04    ASSOCIATE MINISTER.
09:50:07:07    TRIP BRANDON IS OUR DIRECTOR
09:50:08:15    OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.
09:50:10:06    AND WITH ME ARE MEMBERS OF THE
09:50:11:19    CONGREGATION, MICHAEL AND
09:50:13:18    RACHEL MARK, TOM AND ALICE
09:50:17:16    WINNER, BART AND KATE
09:50:20:12    CARPENTER, MARGARET KARROW,
09:50:23:16    JIM KAVANAUGH, AND GREG BOYD.
09:50:26:18    TOM CONNERS IS HERE AS WELL.
09:50:30:07     [ LAUGHTER ]
09:50:30:19    >> ENJOY OUR VIDEO.
09:50:32:18    ROLL THE VIDEO NOW.
09:50:35:13    >> IMAGINE A CHURCH THAT'S
09:50:53:18    TAUPE TO HEARING YOUR
09:50:55:19    QUESTIONS AND DOUBTS.
09:50:57:07    WELCOMING ALL WHO COME THERE.
09:51:03:21    AND LEAVING NO ONE OUT.
09:51:11:04    IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE LIVING
09:51:19:06    FOR TODAY.
09:51:23:09    >> WE HAVE GONE WHERE FEW
09:51:26:18    CONGREGATIONS HAVE GONE
09:51:28:19    BEFORE.
09:51:29:01    THIS CONGREGATION HAS TAKEN
09:51:31:00    THE BOLD STEP.
09:51:33:00    WE ARE NOT ONLY A CHURCH OF
09:51:34:00    OURSELVES, BUT WE ARE A CHURCH
09:51:35:28    OF A COMMUNITY.
09:51:37:07    AND WE HAVE A COMMUNITY IN
09:51:38:21    NEED, IN GREAT NEED.
09:51:40:15    AND WE NEED TO GET OUT OF
09:51:43:16    OURSELVES AND ASSIST THEM.
09:51:45:21    AND INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, BY
09:51:47:09    ASSISTING THEM, WE HAVE HELPED
09:51:49:03    OURSELVES.
09:51:51:10    >> THIS CONGREGATION IS VERY
09:51:53:21    BOLD, AND HAS DONE SOMETHING
09:51:55:03    VERY BOLD BY BUYING A SECOND
09:51:57:10    CAMPUS IN THE CITY OF
09:51:58:10    HARRISBURG, AND THAT'S VERY
09:52:00:21    SCARY TO THE CONGREGATION AND                         42
09:52:02:03    TO ME, BUT WE DID IT ANYWAY,
09:52:04:07    BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT IT'S AN
09:52:05:15    IMPORTANT THING TO DO.
09:52:06:07    >> AND I THINK THAT JUST
09:52:08:18    PURCHASING A BUILDING AND
09:52:09:27    COMING IN AND BECOMING A PART
09:52:11:25    OF A COMMUNITY, A COMMUNITY
09:52:13:24    THAT MANY OF US REALLY TURNED
09:52:16:21    OUR BACK ON, DIDN'T REALLY
09:52:18:00    WANT TO KNOW EXISTED, AND THE
09:52:20:25    OPPORTUNITY TO COME, WORSHIP A
09:52:23:12    FEW TIMES A MONTH, HAS REALLY
09:52:27:04    HELPED PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT
09:52:27:28    MANY OF THE STEREOTYPES AND
09:52:29:12    MANY OF THE IDEAS THAT MAYBE
09:52:32:09    THEY HAD OF ALLISON HILL AND
09:52:33:18    THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE
09:52:35:16    REALLY WAS UNFOUNDED.
09:52:37:09    AND I THINK THAT THE MORE THAT
09:52:38:15    WE COME TO THIS PLACE AND MAKE
09:52:41:06    CONNECTIONS WITH THE
09:52:41:25    INDIVIDUALS HERE IN ALLISON
09:52:42:16    HILL, THE BETTER OFF WE'LL BE.
09:52:45:03    >> BY THE TIME WE GOT TO THE
09:52:47:07    END, THE CHURCH HAD PRETTY
09:52:49:06    MUCH SPLIT.
09:52:50:06    I HAD LOST SOME OF MY DEAREST
09:52:53:00    FRIENDS.
09:52:55:07    IT WAS JUST TERRIBLE.
09:52:59:00    THERE WAS ENOUGH COMMITMENT BY
09:53:00:19    A FEW PEOPLE, AND WE WERE DOWN
09:53:02:19    TO A VERY, VERY SMALL
09:53:04:03    ATTENDANCE, BUT IT WENT ON.
09:53:10:18    I DON'T KNOW THAT WE SAW MUCH
09:53:11:18    OF A FUTURE.
09:53:13:06    >> THERE IS A LITTLE ENGINE IN
09:53:15:15    THIS CONGREGATION THAT KEEPS
09:53:17:03    ON GOING AND KEEPS ON GOING.
09:53:19:24    AND I THINK IT WAS GETTING
09:53:21:04    DOWN TO THE CORE, GETTING DOWN
09:53:22:24    TO WHAT THE CORE OF THIS
09:53:25:06    CHURCH WAS, WHAT THEY BELIEVED
09:53:26:28    AND HOW IMPORTANT THIS CHURCH
09:53:28:01    IS TO SO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS
09:53:30:21    AREA, AND NOT BEING ABLE TO
09:53:32:15    IMAGINE CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
09:53:35:15    WITHOUT A LIBERAL RELIGIOUS
09:53:37:00    COMMUNITY.
09:53:40:03    >> DEEP IN MY HEART, I DO
09:53:46:00    BELIEVE.                                              43
09:53:48:13    >> AND WE STARTED TO FORGIVE
09:53:50:27    EACH OTHER IN WHAT WE HAD
09:53:52:06    DONE, AND THEN LOOKED FORWARD
09:53:53:27    TO BRINGING A SETTLED MINISTER
09:53:56:25    IN.
09:53:57:12    >> MY FAMILY CHOSE TO STAY
09:53:58:24    WITH THE UNITARIAN CHURCH OF
09:54:00:09    HARRISBURG AFTER THAT INITIAL
09:54:01:16    ATTRACTION, BECAUSE THERE WERE
09:54:02:25    SO MANY DIFFERENT PROGRAMS AND
09:54:05:12    CLASSES AND SOCIAL ACTION
09:54:07:21    PROJECTS THAT WE COULD BE
09:54:11:03    INVOLVED IN AND THERE WERE
09:54:13:18    PEOPLE THAT INVITED US TO BE A
09:54:15:04    PART OF THAT.
09:54:16:01    >> WHEN I WENT TO THE PRIDE
09:54:17:09    FEST, I WAS AMAZED AGAIN AT
09:54:21:25    THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE FROM OUR
09:54:25:00    UNITARIAN CHURCH AND MANY OF
09:54:26:03    THE UNITARIAN CHURCHES IN
09:54:27:27    CENTRAL PA THAT WERE THERE TO
09:54:30:10    BE THE SHIELD BETWEEN THE
09:54:33:03    PARADE PARTICIPANTS AND THE
09:54:35:24    PROTESTERS.
09:54:49:24    >> I WISH I WAS AS GOOD ADS
09:54:53:13    SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO DO.
09:54:55:06    I MEAN, THEIR DOING THAT
09:54:57:18    PROMPTS ME MORE TO DO THE RACE
09:55:00:13    AGAINST RACISM AND THINGS THAT
09:55:01:28    AREN'T NECESSARILY FOR MYSELF.
09:55:08:28    PROBABLY 2003-2004 I COULD SEE
09:55:13:15    THAT WE WERE PHYSICALLY HAVING
09:55:15:03    SPACE ISSUES AND THAT THERE
09:55:17:16    WERE LIMITS TO THE PROGRAMS WE
09:55:19:24    COULD DO IN THE CHURCH BECAUSE
09:55:21:12    COMMITTEES AND GROUPS WOULD BE
09:55:23:19    VYING FOR THE SAME SPACE.
09:55:26:24    >> WE ALL AGREED THAT WE
09:55:28:09    NEEDED MORE SPACE.
09:55:29:13    WE JUST DIDN'T KNOW EXACTLY
09:55:30:13    HOW TO GO ABOUT IT, WHETHER IT
09:55:31:18    BE BUILDING A CHURCH OR
09:55:32:12    FIGURING OUT HOW TO RAISE
09:55:34:00    FUNDS TO RENOVATE OUR CURRENT
09:55:36:10    BUILDING OR MOVING INTO
09:55:38:00    HARRISBURG.
09:55:38:24    >> I SAW THE PITFALLS OF
09:55:41:03    TAKING ON A BUILDING THIS
09:55:42:10    LARGE AND THE AGE THAT THIS
09:55:43:21    BUILDING IS, BUT THEY DIDN'T                          44
09:55:45:00    REALLY FRIGHTEN ME.
09:55:46:00    WHAT FRIGHTENED ME WAS THAT
09:55:47:19    THE CONGREGATION ITSELF WOULD
09:55:49:19    EXPERIENCE A TENSION AROUND
09:55:52:12    THE DECISION ABOUT WHETHER TO
09:55:54:15    MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS, THAT
09:55:57:03    PERSONAL AND EMOTIONAL AND
09:55:58:06    SPIRITUAL BONDS THAT HELD THIS
09:55:59:18    CHURCH TOGETHER WOULDN'T HOLD.
09:56:01:16    I'M RELIEVED NOW A
09:56:03:21    YEAR-AND-A-HALF LATER TO SEE
09:56:05:27    THAT.
09:56:07:24    I WON'T SAY I NEED NOT HAVE
09:56:12:15    WORRIED, BUT EVERYTHING HAS
09:56:13:15    TURNED OUT FINE.
09:56:14:06    >> WELL, THE CONGRESSIONAL
09:56:15:07    MEETING IN 2008 WAS REALLY AN
09:56:16:24    EXPERIENCE TO BEHOLD.
09:56:17:24    IT WAS, WELL, LEADING UP TO
09:56:20:04    THE MEETING, NONE OF US REALLY
09:56:21:16    KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT.
09:56:22:18    WE DIDN'T KNOW IF PEOPLE WOULD
09:56:23:27    STORM OUT IN ANGER OR IF WE
09:56:25:06    WOULD ALL JUST HOLD HANDS AND
09:56:26:28    SING SONGS AND AGREE ON MOST
09:56:28:27    THINGS.
09:56:29:18    IT WAS ONE OF THE MORE
09:56:31:15    INTERESTING CHURCH MEETINGS
09:56:33:13    THAT I'VE EVER BEEN A PART OF.
09:56:35:12    >> IT HAD BEEN A WEEK OF
09:56:36:15    CONTROVERSY.
09:56:37:27    E-MAILS BACK AND FORTH, FLAME
09:56:39:28    WARS EVEN, PEOPLE VERY
09:56:43:18    CONCERNED.
09:56:46:10    ON THE ONE HAND, THAT WE
09:56:47:18    WOULDN'T TAKE THIS ONCE IN A
09:56:48:18    LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY THAT WAS
09:56:50:00    SO IN LINE WITH WHAT WE SAID
09:56:51:16    WE WANTED TO DO, AND ON THE
09:56:53:09    OTHER HAND, PEOPLE EXTREMELY
09:56:54:21    CONCERNED ABOUT TAKING ON A
09:56:56:00    HUGE NEW EXPENSE, AND DEBT
09:56:58:00    RELATED TO THAT EXPENSE, RIGHT
09:56:59:21    IN THE MIDDLE OF A RECISION.
09:57:02:18    MANY PEOPLE WERE CONCERNED
09:57:03:13    ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD ITSELF.
09:57:06:06    THERE WAS CONCERN ABOUT
09:57:07:06    WHETHER THERE WAS AN UNDER
09:57:09:00    CURRENT OR A CONSPIRACY MAYBE
09:57:10:16    TO MOVE THE ENTIRE                                    45
09:57:12:00    CONGREGATION TO THIS BUILDING
09:57:13:18    AND GET RID OF THIS OLD
09:57:15:00    BUILDING THAT WAS SO BELOVED
09:57:16:19    TO MANY IN THE CONGREGATION.
09:57:18:07    AND THAT ALL CAME TO A HEAD
09:57:19:27    DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS OF
09:57:21:00    THAT WEEK.
09:57:22:21    AND IN THE END, IT CAME DOWN
09:57:24:10    TO A VOTE.
09:57:25:06    EITHER WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS
09:57:26:18    RISKY THING OR NOT DO IT.
09:57:28:24    THIS WAS A DECISION WHERE YOU
09:57:29:25    HAD TO VOTE YES OR NO.
09:57:34:24    >> I THINK THAT ANY TIME
09:57:36:09    YOU'RE ON AN ADVENTURE
09:57:38:22    TOGETHER, ANY TIME YOU'RE
09:57:39:21    GROWING, ANY TIME YOU REALLY
09:57:40:21    ARE ENGAGED IN A GOOD MEASURE
09:57:42:06    OF DISCOVERY AND OF TAKING
09:57:45:00    RISK, I THINK THAT'S A REALLY
09:57:46:24    MESSY PROPOSITION.
09:57:48:03    AND SO, IT HASN'T BEEN NEAT
09:57:51:01    AND WE HAVEN'T TIED EVERYTHING
09:57:52:21    UP IN A BOW, AND THERE ARE
09:57:54:00    TIMES WHEN WE HAVE ARGUED
09:57:55:24    MIGHTILY AMONG US.
09:57:57:07    AND WHERE THERE HAVE BEEN HURT
09:58:00:06    FEELINGS AND MAYBE NOT SUCH
09:58:02:18    GREAT FEELINGS.
09:58:04:04    AND I JUST THINK THAT'S PART
09:58:05:04    OF OUR STRUGGLE TOGETHER AND
09:58:06:24    THAT'S PART OF THE RISK THAT
09:58:07:27    WE TAKE IN BEING TOGETHER.
09:58:09:06    >> WE ARE STRIVING TO LIVE OUT
09:58:12:27    OUR PRINCIPLES.
09:58:13:27    WE COME TO CHURCH EVERY
09:58:14:27    SUNDAY.
09:58:15:09    WE SING.
09:58:16:06    WE HUG.
09:58:18:10    WE LISTEN TO HOWARD'S
09:58:19:18    INCREDIBLE SERMONS.
09:58:21:00    AND THAT'S ALL GOOD.
09:58:23:13    BUT WHAT REALLY IS GOING TO BE
09:58:25:12    IMPORTANT AS WE MOVE FORWARD
09:58:27:03    IS TO SHOW PEOPLE THAT WE
09:58:29:25    DON'T JUST TALK THE TALK, BUT
09:58:31:18    WE ALSO WALK THE WALK.
09:58:33:03    WE FIND OPPORTUNITIES, WE LOOK
09:58:34:27    FOR OPPORTUNITIES, AND WE
09:58:37:07    DON'T JUST WATCH THEM FROM                            46
09:58:38:15    AFAR, BUT WE GET INVOLVED.
09:58:40:27    >> THERE ARE NO LIMITS.
09:58:43:19    THERE ARE NO LIMITS AT THIS
09:58:44:07    POINT.
09:58:52:09    >> PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD,
09:58:53:16    JOIN HANDS, START A LOVE
09:58:55:03    TRAIN, LOVE TRAIN.
09:59:01:21    NEXT STOP WE MAKE WILL BE
09:59:04:03    ENGLAND.
09:59:06:09    TO TELL ALL THE FOLKS IN
09:59:07:06    RUSSIA AND CHINA TOO.
09:59:09:21    DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S TIME
09:59:11:03    TO GET ONBOARD AND THAT THIS
09:59:13:12    TRAIN WILL KEEP ON RIDING,
09:59:15:16    RIDING ON THROUGH.
09:59:20:24    >> I DON'T THINK WE EVER GET
09:59:22:06    THIS WORK DONE.
09:59:24:27    THERE WILL NEVER BE A
09:59:26:00    DESTINATION.
09:59:26:18    AND SOMEHOW WE HAVE TO GET
09:59:27:27    SETTLED WITH THAT, WE JUST
09:59:29:16    HAVE TO BE OKAY WITH THAT.
09:59:31:00    >> THE CONGREGATION HAS
09:59:33:00    STEPPED OVER THIS LITTLE WHITE
09:59:34:15    LINE, AND IS STARTING TO SEE
09:59:36:22    WHAT IT'S LIKE ON THE OTHER
09:59:38:06    SIDE.
09:59:40:03    AND I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT
09:59:42:12    THEY'RE GOING TO WANT TO STOP.
09:59:45:07    >> WE WILL NEVER, EVER GET
09:59:46:24    THIS WORK COMPLETELY DONE.
09:59:51:19    >> FOR MY WANDERING NOW HAS
09:59:53:24    ENDED, SO GOOD-BYE, FAREWELL,
09:59:58:16    SHALOM.
10:00:02:15    NOW AT LAST I FOUND TO YOU I'M
10:00:07:01    BOUND.
10:00:08:15    I AM COMING HOME.
10:00:13:25    COMING HOME, COMING HOME TO
10:00:17:27    SEE YOU AGAIN.
10:00:19:06    COMING HOME, COMING HOME TO
10:00:22:03    YOU.
10:00:24:18    WITH THE STARS AS MY GUIDE,
10:00:27:22    I'LL BE THERE AT YOUR SIDE, I
10:00:32:00    AM COMING HOME.
10:00:42:19    WHEN THE TIDES ARE CALM AND
10:00:46:00    GENTLE, WHEN THE SEA IS MIST
10:00:50:22    AND FOAM, THEN I'LL THINK OF
10:00:55:24    YOU WITH LOVE SO TRUE, I AM
10:01:01:15    COMING HOME.
10:01:12:22    COMING HOME TO SEE YOU AGAIN.                         47
10:01:16:21    COMING HOME TO YOU.
10:01:22:24    WITH THE STARS AS MY GUIDE,
10:01:25:15    I'LL BE THERE AT YOUR SIDE.
10:01:29:06    I AM COMING HOME.
10:01:41:27    I HAVE TRAVELED SEA AND
10:01:43:10    MOUNTAIN, DISTANT PATHWAYS I
10:01:48:21    DID ROAM.
10:01:52:10    NOW IT'S TIME, MY FRIEND, FOR
10:01:57:06    JOURNEY'S END.
10:02:01:06    I AM COMING HOME.
10:02:37:27     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:02:38:06    >> "NOW INTRODUCE LINDALU
10:02:49:09    BURCIAGA TO GIVE THE REPORT
10:02:51:01    FROM THE UU WOMEN'S
10:02:52:01    FEDERATION.
10:02:52:21    PLEASE WELCOME HERE.
10:02:54:18     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:02:56:27    >> GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
10:03:00:00    DURING THIS GA, WE ARE
10:03:02:18    CELEBRATING THE
10:03:04:10    200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH
10:03:06:03    OF OUR REMARKABLE FOREMOTHER,
10:03:10:13    MARGARET FULLER.
10:03:11:09    IN HONOR OF THAT BICENTENNIAL,
10:03:13:09    I'M GOING TO USE MY TIME WITH
10:03:14:09    YOU HERE TODAY, WHICH IS ALSO
10:03:15:15    MY LAST TIME WITH YOU AS UUWT
10:03:18:00    PRESIDENT, AS MY TERM ENDS
10:03:19:24    THIS MONTH, TO TELL YOU ABOUT
10:03:22:18    HOW THE UU WOMEN'S FEDERATION
10:03:25:18    CELEBRATES AND HONORS THIS
10:03:27:19    GROUNDBREAKING UU WOMAN EVERY
10:03:30:01    YEAR THROUGH OUR MARGARET
10:03:32:18    FULLER GRANTS PROGRAM.
10:03:37:10    S.
10:03:38:00    IT'S STORY BEGINS IN 1985 WHEN
10:03:41:27    PLANNERS OF A UUWT MEMBERSHIP
10:03:44:15    MEETING COULD NOT FIND A UU
10:03:47:00    THEOLOGIAN TO DELIVER A
10:03:48:19    KEYNOTE ADDRESS ON FEMINIST
10:03:51:09    THEOLOGY.
10:03:55:07    OF ALL OUR THEOLOGIANS OF
10:03:57:21    STATURE, NOT A SINGLE ONE WAS
10:04:00:03    CENTERING HER OR HIS WORK ON
10:04:03:10    THE CONSCIOUSNESS AND
10:04:06:00    EXPERIENCE OF THE SACRED.
10:04:07:13    NOT A SINGLE ONE WAS CREATING
10:04:09:25    WORSHIP MATERIALS FOR
10:04:11:12    EXPLORING OR DEVELOPING
10:04:12:09    SPIRITUAL OR ETHICAL PRACTICES                        48
10:04:15:10    OR THOUGHT ROOTED IN WHAT
10:04:18:00    REVEREND MARILYN SEWELL,
10:04:20:09    RECIPIENT OF ONE OF THE FIRST
10:04:22:04    GRANTS, CALLED THE CRUCIAL
10:04:24:03    DIFFERENCE IN CONSCIOUSNESS
10:04:27:06    THAT WOMEN BRING TO THE TABLE,
10:04:29:12    SUCH AS MUTUALITY,
10:04:33:00    INTERDEPENDENCE, NURTURANCE,
10:04:35:07    AND CARE FOR THE PLANET AS OUR
10:04:37:15    HOME.
10:04:39:21    SO THE MEETING PLANNERS
10:04:40:22    INVITED A ROMAN CATHOLIC
10:04:43:12    FEMINIST THEOLOGIAN TO KEYNOTE
10:04:45:18    THIS MEETING, AND THIS
10:04:46:18    INSPIRED WOMEN FROM THE
10:04:48:01    SOUTHWEST DISTRICT TO DO
10:04:50:18    SOMETHING ABOUT THE THEN STATE
10:04:53:12    OF UU FEMINIST THEOLOGY.
10:04:57:03    THEY WENT HOME AND THEY RAISED
10:05:00:00    $40,000, WHICH THEY ENTRUSTED
10:05:02:16    TO THE UUWF TO USE TO FURTHER
10:05:06:03    THE GROWTH AND THE DEVELOPMENT
10:05:08:01    OF UU FEMINIST THEOLOGY.
10:05:11:24    WITH A MATCHING GRANT FROM THE
10:05:15:25    VEATCH PROGRAM FROM THE UU
10:05:18:21    PROGRAM AT SHELTER ROCK, UUWT
10:05:21:13    DOUBLED THIS AMOUNT WITH
10:05:22:01    ADDITIONAL FUND-RAISING,
10:05:23:03    BRINGING THE ENDOWMENT TO
10:05:24:12    $160,000.
10:05:27:25    ORIGINALLY CALLED THE FEMINIST
10:05:29:10    THEOLOGY AWARDS, THE PROGRAM'S
10:05:31:03    FIRST GRANTS WERE GIVEN, AS I
10:05:33:24    SAID, IN 1989.
10:05:35:22    I'VE ALREADY IDENTIFIED
10:05:37:04    REVEREND MARILYN SEWELL AS A
10:05:39:06    FIRST RECIPIENT.
10:05:40:21    HER PROJECT INVOLVED USING HER
10:05:42:10    COLLECTION OF WOMEN'S
10:05:43:04    WRITINGS, CRIES OF THE SPIRIT,
10:05:47:15    TO ENCOURAGE OUR CONGREGATIONS
10:05:50:01    TO USE SIMILAR MATERIALS IN
10:05:52:03    WORSHIP.
10:05:53:21    ANOTHER OF THOSE FIRST GRANTS
10:05:55:13    SUPPORTED A CONFERENCE ON THE
10:05:57:07    RELIGIOUS RESPONSE TO INCEST,
10:06:01:15    CHILD ABUSE, AND SEXUAL ABUSE
10:06:04:03    BY CLERGY.
10:06:07:06    SERENDIPITOUSLY, ANOTHER WENT
10:06:12:18    TO A PROJECT FOCUSED ON THE                           49
10:06:14:07    CHURCH-HOME PARADIGM DONE BY
10:06:16:03    DR. CYNTHIA GRANT TUCKER, WHO
10:06:18:12    RECEIVED OUR MINISTRY TO WOMEN
10:06:20:10    AWARD ON THURSDAY.
10:06:24:09    AFTER REVISIONING IN 2002, THE
10:06:25:24    PROGRAM WAS RE-NAMED IN HONOR
10:06:28:01    OF MARGARET FULLER WHO ITS
10:06:30:18    MISSION REFINED TO THE FUNDING
10:06:31:24    OF ACCESSIBLE PROJECTS IN UU
10:06:34:21    RELIGIOUS FEMINISMS, AND THE
10:06:38:10    PLURALIZING "S" ADDED TO
10:06:40:24    EMBRACE ITS MANY AND DIVERSE
10:06:43:27    STRANDS.
10:06:45:10    WORK WHICH INCLUDES THOSE WHO
10:06:47:00    NAME THEMSELVES WOMAN I HAVE
10:06:49:09    THE, MUJERISTA, OR
10:06:52:06    ECO-FEMINIST.
10:06:54:01    THE WORK WE FUND IS ALSO
10:06:55:21    DIVERSE.
10:06:56:21    THE DEVELOPMENT OF RITUALS FOR
10:06:58:18    WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER.
10:07:03:18    A CURRICULA LIKE ANCIENT
10:07:08:25    ROUTES, THE FEMININE FACE OF
10:07:10:24    WESTERN RELIGION.
10:07:12:00    A COMPENDIA OF SELECTED WORKS
10:07:15:15    BY MAY.
10:07:16:18    SARTON THAT DEAL WITH
10:07:17:27    SPIRITUALITY, AGING, AND
10:07:19:15    DEATH, AND HER VISION OF LIFE
10:07:20:13    FOR WOMEN.
10:07:21:21    THIS YEAR'S FUNDED PROJECTS
10:07:23:15    INCLUDE A CD OF ORIGINAL SONGS
10:07:25:25    BY SHELLY JACKSON DENHAM,
10:07:28:24    FAMILIAR TO YOU FROM HER HYMNS
10:07:30:15    AND READINGS IN SINGING THE
10:07:32:16    LIVING TRADITION.
10:07:35:27    AND ALSO A GUIDE FOR 21ST
10:07:38:03    CENTURY CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING
10:07:42:09    GROUPS.
10:07:43:12    AT ITS MEETING LAST SEPTEMBER,
10:07:44:21    THE UUWF BOARD REAFFIRMED ITS
10:07:47:13    COMMITMENT TO THIS PROGRAM IN
10:07:49:00    PARTICULAR AND TO THE
10:07:50:00    RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT OF UU
10:07:52:00    WOMEN IN GENERAL BY REVISING
10:07:55:03    OUR MISSION STATEMENT.
10:07:57:18    UUWF'S LONG COMMITMENT TO
10:08:01:04    SOCIAL JUSTICE, WHICH INCLUDED
10:08:03:12    OUR EQUITY AND JUSTICE GRANTS
10:08:06:06    PROGRAM, WAS ALREADY                                  50
10:08:07:21    REPRESENTED BY THE OPENING
10:08:09:19    WORDS IN OUR MISSION
10:08:11:24    STATEMENT, ADVANCING JUSTICE
10:08:13:03    FOR WOMEN.
10:08:15:10    BUT TO THIS WE ADDED AND
10:08:17:09    PROMOTING THEIR SPIRITUAL
10:08:18:24    GROWTH TO EMBRACE BOTH OUR
10:08:22:01    MARGARET FULLER AND ALSO OUR
10:08:24:18    MARGERY BOWENS-WHEATLEY GRANT
10:08:27:16    PROGRAMS.
10:08:28:19    THE LATTER OF WHICH SUPPORTS
10:08:32:24    ASPIRANTS TO THE UU MINISTRY
10:08:36:27    WHO IDENTIFY AS WOMEN OF
10:08:37:27    COLOR, LATINA, HISPANIC.
10:08:41:07    ADVANCING JUSTICE FOR WOMEN
10:08:42:09    AND PROMOTING THEIR SPIRITUAL
10:08:43:18    GROWTH KIND OF HAS A RING TO
10:08:45:28    IT, DOESN'T IT?
10:08:47:12    AND WE HAVE ALSO PUT OUR MONEY
10:08:49:06    WHERE OUR MOUTH IS.
10:08:51:00    FOR MOST OF ITS HISTORY, THE
10:08:53:10    PROGRAM DISTRIBUTED GRANTS
10:08:54:15    TOTALING ABOUT $10,000
10:08:56:06    ANNUALLY.
10:08:57:24    BUT AS SADLY IS THE CASE SO
10:09:01:12    COMMON THESE DAYS, RECENT
10:09:03:18    YEARS HAVE SEEN A DECREASE IN
10:09:06:01    OUR ENDOWMENT EARNINGS.
10:09:07:27    THE BOARD NOW ADDS MONEY FROM
10:09:10:12    OUR OPERATING FUNDS TO THE
10:09:13:19    INCOME AVAILABLE FOR THE
10:09:16:00    MARGARET FULLER GRANT.
10:09:17:12    THIS YEAR WE ADDED 6,600 TO
10:09:20:27    BRING THE TOTAL UP TO 12,000.
10:09:23:13    IN HER FAMOUS CONVERSATIONS
10:09:25:16    FOR WOMEN, MARGARET FULLER
10:09:29:12    BROUGHT WOMEN TOGETHER, AND
10:09:33:06    WHAT SHE SAID WAS TO DO THEIR
10:09:38:04    MINDING, NOT THEIR MENDING.
10:09:44:25    OH, MY GOODNESS.
10:09:50:15    OH, MY GOODNESS.
10:09:52:16    >> YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT
10:09:53:16    OUT OF MY MOUTH.
10:09:55:12    THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING
10:09:56:21    FOR 200 YEARS.
10:10:00:15    YES, WOMEN.
10:10:02:18    >> YOU DO HAVE MINDS, BUT MAY
10:10:05:16    I GENTLY SUGGEST YOU HAVE NOT
10:10:07:18    FOUND THEM YET.
10:10:09:24     [ LAUGHTER ]                                         51
10:10:10:09    >> LINDALU, AS I WROTE IN MY
10:10:13:21    BOOK, WHAT WOMEN NEED IS NOT
10:10:17:28    AS A WOMAN TO ACT OR RULE, BUT
10:10:21:09    AS A NATURE TO GROW.
10:10:26:01    AS AN INTELLECT TO DISCERN.
10:10:30:24    AS A SOUL TO LIVE FREELY AND
10:10:32:13    UNIMPEDED.
10:10:34:03    TO UNFOLD SUCH POWERS AS WERE
10:10:37:28    GIVEN HER.
10:10:38:19    AND NOW THE TIME HAS COME WHEN
10:10:41:06    A CLEARER VISION AND BETTER
10:10:43:27    ACTION ARE POSSIBLE.
10:10:46:21    LINDALU, LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT
10:10:49:00    WE CAN DO.
10:10:50:13    >> SO, THIS IS WONDERFUL.
10:10:52:01    THANK YOU.
10:10:54:15     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:10:55:09    PRESIDENT WELCOME BRUCE NOT,
10:11:12:21    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF YOUR
10:11:13:24    UNITED NATIONS OFFICE.
10:11:29:27    >> YOU'RE DOING QUITE A LOT TO
10:11:32:12    YOUR OFFICE AT THE UNITED
10:11:33:18    NATIONS.
10:11:34:04    THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
10:11:35:10    UNITED NATIONS OFFICE
10:11:36:15    CONTINUES AS THE ONLY FAITH
10:11:37:24    BASED OFFICE AT THE UNITED
10:11:39:21    NATIONS WITH A PROGRAM
10:11:41:18    DEDICATED TO PROMOTING EQUAL
10:11:45:18    RIGHTS, REGARDLESS OF SEXUAL
10:11:47:00    ORIENTATION OR GENDER
10:11:48:18    IDENTITY.
10:11:57:06    WE STAND TOGETHER ON THE SIDE
10:11:59:00    OF LOVE IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
10:12:02:15    WE STAND TOGETHER AGAINST
10:12:05:15    THOSE WHO WOULD KILL GAYS,
10:12:07:03    TRANS PEOPLE, BISEXUALS, AND
10:12:09:01    LESBIANS IN UGANDA OR ANYWHERE
10:12:10:18    ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH THE
10:12:16:06    KILL THE GAYS BILL AT THE
10:12:17:13    UGANDAN MISSION TO THE UNITED
10:12:18:25    NATIONS IN NEW YORK CITY.
10:12:21:03    WE WORK WITH UNITARIAN
10:12:22:09    UNIVERSALISTS AND OTHER HUMAN
10:12:24:06    RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN UGANDA
10:12:26:27    ITSELF.
10:12:28:12    WE STAND WITH JOSEPH AND
10:12:31:24    MIGUEL, TWO IRAQI REFUGEES,
10:12:34:27    WHO FACE TORTURE IN IRAQ DUE
10:12:38:09    TO THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION                           52
10:12:39:18    AND THEN FACE HARASSMENT IN
10:12:41:10    HOUSTON, TEXAS, AND TELL THE
10:12:43:03    UU-UNO AND UU CONGREGATIONS,
10:12:47:24    WORK IT GREATLY IMPROVE THEIR
10:12:48:28    LIVES.
10:12:49:19    WHEN THE LEADER OF SEXUAL
10:12:53:06    MINORITIES UGANDA, SMUG FOR
10:12:56:10    SHORT, VISITED NEW YORK CITY,
10:12:58:03    WE ARRANGED AN INTERVIEW FOR
10:13:00:12    HIM AT CNN AND TOOK HIM TO UN
10:13:03:19    MISSIONS OF SEVERAL UN MEMBER
10:13:06:12    STATES.
10:13:07:03    THE UU-UNO LEADS A NATIONWIDE
10:13:09:19    FAITH NETWORK TO OPPOSE
10:13:10:28    HOMOPHOBE I CAN'T AND WE ARE
10:13:14:09    LEADERS IN A WORLDWIDE NETWORK
10:13:15:24    OF GLBT ADVOCACY
10:13:18:22    ORGANIZATIONS.
10:13:19:24    WE LEAD IN THE AREA OF SAVING
10:13:22:09    OUR PLANET AGAINST MANMADE
10:13:24:10    CLIMATE CHANGE.
10:13:25:06    THE UU-UNO PARTICIPATED AT THE
10:13:27:09    CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE IN
10:13:29:00    COPENHAGEN AND WE WORKED ON
10:13:31:07    THE UNITED NATIONS NGO
10:13:32:27    COMMITTEE FOR SUSTAINABLE
10:13:34:06    DEVELOPMENT.
10:13:35:21    OUR INTERGENERATIONAL SPRING
10:13:37:18    SEMINAR THIS YEAR WAS ON
10:13:39:01    CLIMATE CHANGE.
10:13:42:03    HERE YOU SEE OUR PARTICIPANTS
10:13:43:06    AT A NEW CONFERENCE ROOM AT
10:13:45:10    THE UNITED NATIONS LEARNING
10:13:47:12    ABOUT THE DEVASTATING EFFECTS
10:13:48:21    OF CLIMATE CHANGE.
10:13:51:04    OUR UNITED NATIONS SUNDAY THIS
10:13:53:00    YEAR ALSO FOCUSES ON CLIMATE
10:13:55:00    CHANGE.
10:13:56:06    WHAT IS UN SUNDAY, YOU ASK?
10:13:59:21    THERE USED TO BE A UN SUNDAY
10:14:01:24    IN EVERY UU CHURCH DEVOTED TO
10:14:03:22    DISCUSSING THE UNIQUE AND
10:14:06:21    VITAL ROLE OF THE UNITED
10:14:08:03    NATIONS.
10:14:08:28    IF YOUR CHURCH DOES NOT HAVE A
10:14:10:10    UN SUNDAY, DO SOMETHING TO
10:14:12:06    MAKE SURE THAT IT DOES.
10:14:14:03    IF YOU NEED HELP PLANNING
10:14:15:25    CONTENT, SEE OUR WEBSITE OR
10:14:18:12    GIVE US A CALL.                                       53
10:14:20:13    GET UP-TO-DATE.
10:14:22:01    GONE ARE THE DAYS WHEN THE
10:14:23:06    UNITED STATES ACTS ALONE
10:14:25:21    WITHOUT CONSULTING THE REST OF
10:14:27:06    THE WORLD AT THE UNITED
10:14:27:28    NATIONS.
10:14:29:01    IF YOUR CONGREGATION HAS
10:14:30:12    FORGOTTEN THE UNITED NATIONS,
10:14:32:06    IT'S TIME FOR IT TO REMEMBER
10:14:36:03    THE UNITED NATIONS AGAIN AND
10:14:37:12    GETS INVOLVED.
10:14:39:01    ONCE YOUR MINISTER GIVES THE
10:14:40:27    UN SERMON, HAVE IT SUBMITTED
10:14:42:21    FOR THE GREELEY AWARD
10:14:43:21    COMPETITION BY FEBRUARY 1ST.
10:14:46:18    THIS YEAR'S WINNER IS REVEREND
10:14:49:03    ANA LEVY-LYONS, WHO SERVES AT
10:14:52:00    ALL SOULS CHURCH IN NEW YORK
10:14:53:27    CITY.
10:14:55:03     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:14:55:16    >> WE CONTINUE TO EMPOWER
10:14:58:06    WOMEN AND GIRLS IN EASTERN
10:14:59:15    GHANA AND TO EDUCATE AND
10:15:02:06    PROVIDE HEALTHCARE TO CHILDREN
10:15:03:18    ORPHANED BY HIV/AIDS.
10:15:07:10    THIS IS OUR WAY TO CONTRIBUTE
10:15:10:06    TO THE UN MILLENNIUM
10:15:12:07    DEVELOPMENT GOALS TO ERADICATE
10:15:14:00    EXTREME POVERTY, PROVIDE
10:15:15:21    UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION,
10:15:17:12    TO COMBAT HIV/AIDS AND OTHER
10:15:19:22    DISEASES, AND TO ESTABLISH
10:15:21:21    GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER
10:15:24:00    WOMEN.
10:15:24:24    FOR $10 PER MONTH, YOU CAN
10:15:26:25    PROVIDE AN ORPHAN CHILD WITH
10:15:28:21    AN EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE AND
10:15:30:21    EMPOWER THE WOMEN WHO DO THIS
10:15:33:04    NOBLE WORK IN THEIR COMMUNITY.
10:15:36:06    WE ARE EXPANDING OUR ADVOCACY
10:15:38:25    FOR WOMEN.
10:15:39:21    WE ARE DEDICATED TO ENDING
10:15:41:12    VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN.
10:15:42:27    WE WORK FOR THE FULL
10:15:44:00    IMPLEMENTATION OF UN SECURITY
10:15:46:27    COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1325 WHICH
10:15:49:28    WAS PASSED UNANIMOUSLY ON
10:15:52:06    OCTOBER 31ST, 2000.
10:15:55:09    THIS IS THE FIRST RESOLUTION
10:15:57:25    EVER PASSED THAT SIGNIFICANTLY                        54
10:16:00:06    ADDRESSES THE IMPACT OF WAR ON
10:16:02:21    WOMEN.
10:16:04:07    IT CALLS FOR WOMEN TO PLAY KEY
10:16:06:24    ROLES IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
10:16:09:03    AND BUILDING SUSTAINABLE
10:16:10:28    PEACE.
10:16:12:07    WE WORK FOR THE RATIFICATION
10:16:14:18    BY THE UNITED STATES
10:16:15:00    GOVERNMENT OF THE UN
10:16:17:09    CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION
10:16:19:01    OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION
10:16:21:12    AGAINST WOMEN, CEDAW.
10:16:25:13     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:16:25:18    >> AND WHILE WE ARE AT IT, WE
10:16:27:21    ALSO NEED TO RATIFY THE ROME
10:16:32:16    STATUTE AND JOIN THE
10:16:34:00    INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT,
10:16:35:21    WHICH ENSURES THE END TO
10:16:37:04    IMPUNITY IN HUMAN RIGHTS
10:16:40:27    ATROCITIES.
10:16:41:27     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:16:42:12    >> THE UU-UNO IS THE NATIONAL
10:16:45:24    FAITH AND ETHICS NETWORK
10:16:47:15    LEADER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL
10:16:49:01    CRIMINAL COURT, WHICH SEEKS
10:16:51:24    U.S. RATIFICATION TO JOIN THIS
10:16:54:25    IMPORTANT UNITED NATIONS
10:16:56:15    COURT.
10:16:57:09    WE ALSO NEED TO RATIFY THE UN
10:16:59:21    CONVENTIONS TO PROTECT THE
10:17:01:06    RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE,
10:17:03:18    THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH
10:17:05:03    DISABILITIES AND THE RIGHTS OF
10:17:06:15    THE CHILD.
10:17:09:15    THERE ARE ONLY TWO COUNTRIES
10:17:10:18    IN THE WORLD WHICH HAVE NOT
10:17:11:27    RATIFIED THE UN CONVENTION ON
10:17:13:15    THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD:
10:17:15:21    SOMALIA AND THE UNITED STATES.
10:17:18:18    SHAME!
10:17:21:13    THE UU-UNO HELPED ORGANIZE AND
10:17:23:27    PARTICIPATED IN THE UN
10:17:25:28    CONFERENCE IN MEXICO CITY IN
10:17:28:00    SEPTEMBER 2009 DEVOTED TO
10:17:30:12    DISARMAMENT, PEACE AND
10:17:32:06    DEVELOPMENT.
10:17:34:16    THE CONFERENCE CONCLUDED THAT
10:17:36:09    THE WORLD NEEDS TO ABOLISH
10:17:38:18    NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
10:17:40:16    IT NEEDS TO LIMIT THE                                 55
10:17:42:07    PRODUCTION AND SALES OF SMALL
10:17:44:18    ARMS.
10:17:45:12    WE NEED TO REDUCE THE MILITARY
10:17:48:25    SPENDING GLOBALLY AND
10:17:50:06    ESPECIALLY HERE IN THE UNITED
10:17:51:03    STATES, WHERE WE SPEND ABOUT
10:17:54:25    AS MUCH ON OUR MILITARY AND
10:17:56:27    WARS AS THE REST OF THE WORLD
10:17:58:12    COMBINED.
10:18:01:10    OVER HALF YOUR FEDERAL TAX
10:18:03:27    DOLLARS GO FOR MILITARY
10:18:05:09    SPENDING.
10:18:08:01    THERE ARE DEMONSTRATIONS
10:18:09:00    AGAINST PROVIDING HEALTHCARE,
10:18:10:12    BUT THE TEA BAGGERS IGNORE THE
10:18:13:00    54 CENTS OUT OF EVERY TAX
10:18:15:16    DOLLAR THAT IS SPENT ON THE
10:18:17:24    MILITARY AND WAR.
10:18:19:24    I COULD GO ON AND ON, BUT
10:18:22:01    THERE IS PROBABLY A HOOK
10:18:23:27    SOMEWHERE READY TO PULL ME OFF
10:18:25:18    THE STAGE.
10:18:27:25    SO LET ME CONCLUDE BY TELLING
10:18:30:24    YOU THAT YOU HAVE A VERY
10:18:33:18    POWERFUL AND VERY INFLUENTIAL
10:18:36:22    UNITED NATIONS OFFICES UNDER
10:18:38:21    THE LEADERSHIP OF OUR NEW
10:18:41:01    BOARD PRESIDENT, CATHERINE
10:18:43:07    ONYEMELUKWE, WHOSE PICTURE ON
10:18:44:27    THE LEFT, AND IS STANDING TO
10:18:47:28    MY RIGHT.
10:18:48:16    WORKING IN CLOSE COLLABORATION
10:18:50:24    WITH UUA PRESIDENT PETER
10:18:52:24    MORALES, PICTURED ON THE
10:18:54:13    RIGHT.
10:18:55:16    OUR SMALL OFFICE AT THE UNITED
10:18:56:27    NATIONS IS LEADING LARGE
10:19:00:12    INTERNATIONAL COALITIONS TO
10:19:04:09    EFFECT MEANINGFUL CHANGE AT
10:19:05:15    THE UNITED NATIONS AND AROUND
10:19:06:27    THE WORLD.
10:19:09:06    WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU
10:19:10:06    DOING?
10:19:10:18    BE PROUD.
10:19:12:13    YOU ARE DOING A LOT BY
10:19:13:16    SUPPORTING YOUR OFFICE AT THE
10:19:15:09    UNITED NATIONS THAT PLAYS IN
10:19:17:15    THE MAJOR LEAGUES AND AFFECTS
10:19:20:19    GLOBAL CHANGE.
10:19:22:06    THE TIME FOR YOU AND YOUR                             56
10:19:23:13    CONGREGATION TO JOIN THE
10:19:24:22    UU-UNO IS NOW.
10:19:27:09    FILL OUT THE UU-UNO MEMBERSHIP
10:19:29:16    FORM AND BECOME A PLAYER IN
10:19:31:27    GLOBAL AFFAIRS.
10:19:33:00    AND NOW LET ME INTRODUCE TO
10:19:34:19    YOU OUR NEW BOARD PRESIDENT,
10:19:36:16    CATHERINE ONYEMELUKWE, WHO
10:19:38:09    WILL SAY A FEW WORDS.
10:19:42:22    >> THANK YOU, BRUCE.
10:19:44:21    IN TWO YEARS, THE UU-UNO WILL
10:19:47:10    CELEBRATE 50 YEARS.
10:19:49:21    I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR
10:19:51:18    SUPPORT FOR THE UU-UNO OVER
10:19:53:15    THESE PAST 50 YEARS AND URGE
10:19:56:06    YOU TO INCREASE YOUR SUPPORT
10:19:58:03    OVER THE NEXT 50.
10:19:59:16    SO WE REMAIN A STRONG VOICE
10:20:01:18    FOR OUR VALUES AT THE UN.
10:20:04:06    THANK YOU.
10:20:04:21     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:20:05:10    >> THANK YOU, BRUCE AND
10:20:12:21    CATHERINE.
10:20:14:07    I HAVE AN URGENT MESSAGE FOR
10:20:15:21    THE REVEREND BARBARA THREET TO
10:20:18:28    PLEASE SEE THE MESSAGE BOARD.
10:20:20:19    PLEASE NOW, DELEGATES, WELCOME
10:20:22:03    THE REVEREND DR. WILLIAM F.
10:20:24:03    SCHULZ, INTERIM PRESIDENT OF
10:20:25:19    OUR UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
10:20:26:19    SERVICE COMMITTEE.
10:20:30:00     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:20:30:18    >> THANK YOU, GINI.
10:20:36:21    GOOD MORNING.
10:20:37:18    WHEN I COMPLETED TWO TERMS AS
10:20:40:00    PRESIDENT OF THE UUA IN 1993,
10:20:44:24    MOST GENERAL ASSEMBLY GOERS
10:20:50:01    WERE FAMILIAR WITH MY NAME.
10:20:51:12    ONE YEAR LATER AT THE 1994
10:20:53:09    GENERAL ASSEMBLY, WHICH I HAD
10:20:54:15    CHOSEN NOT TO ATTEND, SOMEONE
10:20:56:10    CAME UP TO MY WIFE AND SAID,
10:20:59:06    TELL ME, WHERE IS BOB SCHWARTZ
10:21:02:00    THESE DAYS, ANYWAY?
10:21:04:07    WELL, WHEN CHARLIE CLEMENTS
10:21:06:18    ANNOUNCED LAST JANUARY THAT HE
10:21:08:03    WAS LEAVING THE PRESIDENCY OF
10:21:09:28    THE UUSC TO TAKE UP A POSITION
10:21:12:06    AT HARVARD'S KENNEDY SCHOOL OF
10:21:14:03    GOVERNMENT, THE UUSC BOARD                            57
10:21:16:10    SAID, IN EFFECT, WHERE IS BOB
10:21:18:03    SCHWARTZ THESE DAYS, ANYWAY?
10:21:21:12    AND ASKED ME TO BECOME INTERIM
10:21:23:13    PRESIDENT UNTIL A SUCCESSOR TO
10:21:25:12    CHARLIE IS CHOSEN.
10:21:28:09    BOARD CHAIR JOHN GIBBONS WILL
10:21:30:00    TELL YOU MORE ABOUT THAT IN A
10:21:31:04    MOMENT.
10:21:32:07    MY ONLY HESITATION IN TAKING
10:21:35:00    THE JOB WAS THIS:  EVEN THOUGH
10:21:38:22    I'M AN OLD MAN NOW, I REGARD
10:21:40:27    MYSELF AS STILL PRETTY SPRY,
10:21:43:15    BUT CHARLIE CLEMENTS IS ABOUT,
10:21:47:09    OH, I'D SAY 30 YEARS OLDER
10:21:49:00    THAN I AM AND HE IS LIKE THE
10:21:52:04    ENERGIZER BUNNY ON STEROIDS.
10:21:54:15    PLUG HIM IN, PLUG HIM IN AND A
10:21:57:13    LITTLE UNDER AN HOUR HE WILL
10:21:59:27    ORGANIZE FOUR DEMONSTRATIONS
10:22:01:03    FOR YOU, GIVE THREE SPEECHES,
10:22:04:04    RAISE TWO MAJOR GIFTS, AND AS
10:22:06:07    A FORMER BUSH DOCTOR, ASSURE
10:22:08:09    YOU THAT SHOULD YOU EVER BE IN
10:22:11:07    THE JUNGLE AND SUSTAIN A BITE
10:22:13:18    FROM THE DREADED CUCHICURRE
10:22:16:27    BUG, URINE, HONEY, AND PAPRIKA
10:22:22:00    MAKE A GREAT SALVE, ASSUMING
10:22:25:15    YOU'VE GOT PAPRIKA HANDY.
10:22:27:00     [ LAUGHTER ]
10:22:27:12    >> WELL, CHARLIE TOOK ALL THAT
10:22:29:19    PASSION AND ENERGY AND HE
10:22:32:09    LITERALLY SAVED UUSC IS.
10:22:36:19    HE IS HERE WITH US THIS
10:22:37:19    MORNING.
10:22:38:06    JOIN ME IN THANKING HIM FOR
10:22:39:21    HIS SIX YEARS OF OUTSTANDING
10:22:42:07    SERVICE.
10:22:43:04     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:22:43:19    THE REASON I DID NOT HESITATE
10:23:02:21    TO BECOME UUSC'S INTERIM
10:23:05:12    PRESIDENT, HOWEVER, IS BECAUSE
10:23:06:15    UUSC IS QUITE LITERALLY THE
10:23:08:13    MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO PUT
10:23:10:12    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST VALUES
10:23:12:21    TO WORK IN THE WORLD, TO MAKE
10:23:14:28    YOUR FAITH SHINE, TO MAKE
10:23:17:18    JUSTICE ROLL LIKE A RIGHTEOUS
10:23:19:03    STREAM ACROSS THE NATION AND
10:23:20:09    THE WORLD, AND TO ENSURE THAT
10:23:22:10    YOU ARE IN THE VANGUARD.                              58
10:23:24:24    TORRENT.
10:23:27:27    WOMEN IN REFUGEE CAMPS IN
10:23:29:21    DARFUR, SUDAN, SHOULD BE
10:23:32:25    PROTECTED BY THE UN POLICE IN
10:23:34:06    THE CAMPS, NOT LEFT ON THEIR
10:23:35:18    OWN FOR RISK ASSAULT WHEN THEY
10:23:40:10    VENTURE OUTSIDE TO FATHER
10:23:42:12    FIREWOOD, FOR EXAMPLE.
10:23:43:12    THE UN HAS NOW ADOPTED A
10:23:44:24    TRAINING PROGRAM DEVISED BY
10:23:46:10    UUSC TO TRAIN THE POLICE IN
10:23:49:27    HOW TO PROTECT WOMEN IN THE
10:23:51:15    CAMPS.
10:23:52:22    YOU DID THAT.
10:23:53:22    YOU AND UUSC.
10:23:55:06    YOU MADE JUSTICE ROLL.
10:23:58:00     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:23:58:15    >> ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER
10:24:01:03    SHOULD NOT BE RATIONED OR
10:24:03:03    PRICED OUT OF REACH OF ANYONE
10:24:05:10    ON THIS PLANET.
10:24:07:21    UUSC  --
10:24:09:00     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:24:09:12    >> UUSC AND ITS UNITARIAN
10:24:11:07    UNIVERSALIST PARTNERS IN
10:24:13:27    CALIFORNIA HELPED PERSUADE THE
10:24:16:00    CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE TO SEND
10:24:17:24    THE GOVERNOR A BILL CODIFYING
10:24:20:07    THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER.
10:24:22:09    HE VETOED IT, BUT YOU DID IT
10:24:24:18    AND YOU WILL DO IT AGAIN UNTIL
10:24:26:10    IT IS SIGNED.
10:24:27:12    YOU AND UUSC.
10:24:29:24    YOU MADE JUSTICE ROLL.
10:24:34:00     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:24:34:12    >> UNTIL WE SEE THE EARTH
10:24:38:21    PROTECTED AS READILY AS WE
10:24:41:00    PROTECT OUR CHILDREN, NONE OF
10:24:42:24    US WILL BE SAFE FROM
10:24:44:06    ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION.
10:24:47:21    UUSC AND ITS PARTNERS IN
10:24:49:21    ECUADOR HAVE SUCCEEDED IN
10:24:55:12    CONVINCING THAT COUNTRY TO
10:24:56:15    ADOPT A NEW CONSTITUTION THAT
10:24:59:04    FOR THE FIRST TIME ANYWHERE IN
10:25:01:06    THE WORLD RECOGNIZES THAT THE
10:25:04:06    EARTH ITSELF HAS RIGHTS THAT
10:25:06:22    NEED PROTECTING, A WHOLE NEW
10:25:09:15    CONCEPT, A WHOLE NEW CONCEPT
10:25:12:28    IN THE STRUGGLE FOR EARTH                             59
10:25:14:06    JUSTICE.
10:25:14:27    YOU DID THAT.
10:25:15:21    YOU AND UUSC.
10:25:17:09    YOU MADE JUSTICE ROLL.
10:25:19:10     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:25:19:25    >> 200,000 PEOPLE WERE
10:25:23:09    MASSACRED IN GUATEMALA OVER
10:25:25:06    THE PAST 40 YEARS, MANY OF
10:25:27:21    THEM MAYAN INDIANS.
10:25:29:12    FEW OF THEIR KILLERS HAVE BEEN
10:25:30:27    BROUGHT TO JUSTICE, BUT YOU,
10:25:33:27    UUSC, AND ITS PARTNERS IN
10:25:37:03    GUATEMALA ARE COLLECTING
10:25:38:28    FORENSIC EVIDENCE TO DO JUST
10:25:40:15    THAT.
10:25:41:07    NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO LIVE ON
10:25:44:06    $15,000 A YEAR.
10:25:45:19    THAT'S WHAT A WORKER EARNING
10:25:47:01    THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE
10:25:48:18    MAKES, BUT THAT'S BELOW THE
10:25:51:09    FEDERAL POVERTY LINE FOR A
10:25:52:28    FAMILY OF THREE.
10:25:53:22    AND CONSIDER THIS.
10:25:55:00    IT'S LESS THAN WHAT THE
10:25:57:18    AVERAGE CEO AT AN S&P 500
10:26:02:06    COMPANY EARNS BEFORE LUNCHTIME
10:26:05:16    ON ANY GIVEN DAY.
10:26:07:27    UUSC IS WORKING TO RAISE THE
10:26:10:15    MINIMUM WAGE SO THAT A JOB
10:26:12:16    WILL LIFT YOU OUT OF POVERTY,
10:26:14:06    NOT KEEP YOU IN IT.
10:26:18:00     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:26:18:13    >> MUSLIMS, MUSLIMS ARE
10:26:24:15    STEREOTYPES AND PROFILED IN
10:26:26:19    THIS COUNTRY.
10:26:28:10    THROUGH ITS BUILDING BRIDGES
10:26:29:18    PROJECT, DESIGNED TO LINK UU
10:26:32:18    CONGREGATIONS WITH MUSLIM AND
10:26:34:19    ARAB-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES IN
10:26:35:18    THIS COUNTRY.
10:26:36:21    UUSC IS PROMOTING THE CIVIL
10:26:38:28    LIBERTIES OF ALL U.S.
10:26:39:28    RESIDENTS.
10:26:41:15    IN SOME MUSLIM COUNTRIES, IF
10:26:45:13    YOU SPEAK OUT FOR RELIGIOUS
10:26:47:27    TOLERANCE OR RIGHTS OF WOMEN,
10:26:49:00    YOU ARE HARASSED, ARRESTED,
10:26:50:21    TORTURED.
10:26:51:12    THROUGH OUR PARTNERS IN THE
10:26:52:16    MUSLIM AND ARAB WORLD, UUSC IS                        60
10:26:54:15    WORKING FOR A MORE TOLERANT,
10:26:56:09    PROGRESSIVE ISLAM AS WELL.
10:26:58:19    YOU ARE DOING ALL OF THIS.
10:27:00:07    YOU AND UUSC.
10:27:01:21    YOU ARE MAKING JUSTICE ROLL.
10:27:04:13    AND NOWHERE, NOWHERE ARE YOU
10:27:07:15    DOING THAT ON A LARGER SCALE
10:27:10:09    OR IN MORE EFFECTIVE WAYS THAN
10:27:12:01    IN HAITI.
10:27:14:18    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS HAVE
10:27:16:00    GIVEN $1.8 MILLION TO PUT
10:27:20:01    HAITI BACK TOGETHER AGAIN BUT
10:27:25:21    FAR STRONGER, FAR HEALTHIER,
10:27:28:06    FAR MORE FREE THAN IT WAS
10:27:29:12    BEFORE.
10:27:29:24    UUSC, AND ITS PARTNERS ARE
10:27:32:06    FOCUSING ON THE FORGOTTEN
10:27:33:22    PEOPLE WHOM THE LARGE AID
10:27:36:06    AGENCIES OFTEN OVERLOOK.
10:27:38:12    CHILDREN IN RELIEF CAMPS WHO
10:27:40:27    HAVE NO ADULT FAMILY MEMBERS
10:27:42:28    TO CARE FOR THEM, RESTAVEK
10:27:48:24    CHILDREN WHO SERVE,
10:27:49:19    ESSENTIALLY, AS SLAVES IN
10:27:50:22    WEALTHY HOUSEHOLDS.
10:27:51:21    WOMEN WHOSE SECURITY IS UNDER
10:27:52:21    THREAT IN THE CAMPS.
10:27:55:15    WE ARE PROVIDING FOR THEIR
10:27:57:07    IMMEDIATE NEEDS, BUT WE'RE
10:27:58:15    ALSO HELPING HAITIANS
10:28:00:09    REFASHION THEIR LIVELIHOODS.
10:28:02:06    WE ARE TRAINING TRAUMA
10:28:03:19    RESPONSE TEAMS TO HELP THEM
10:28:05:24    RE-IMAGINE THEIR LIVES.
10:28:07:15    WE ARE ASSISTING HAITIANS HERE
10:28:09:28    IN THE UNITED STATES TO
10:28:10:28    RESOLVE THEIR IMMIGRATION
10:28:12:15    STRATUS SO THAT THEY CAN WORK
10:28:15:18    LAWFULLY HERE AND REMIT
10:28:17:13    RESOURCES TO HAITI TO HELP
10:28:18:16    REBUILD THE ECONOMY.
10:28:22:24    AND NOW, THANKS TO AN
10:28:23:28    EXTRAORDINARILY GENEROUS
10:28:24:28    CHALLENGE GRANTED OF HALF A
10:28:26:01    MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE
10:28:26:22    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
10:28:27:09    CONGREGATION AT SHELTER ROCK,
10:28:30:21    WE WILL BE PROVIDING WAYS FOR
10:28:32:22    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS WHO
10:28:35:03    WANT TO PUT THEIR SKILLS AT                           61
10:28:36:27    THE SERVICE OF THE HAITIAN
10:28:38:21    PEOPLE, JUST AS HUNDREDS OF
10:28:40:16    VOLUNTEERS HAVE DONE IN NEW
10:28:42:03    ORLEANS, BUILDING SKILLS,
10:28:45:00    EDUCATION SKILLS, HEALTH
10:28:47:01    SKILLS, AGRICULTURAL SKILLS,
10:28:50:24    PUT THEIR SKILLS AT THE
10:28:53:12    SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE THROUGH
10:28:54:25    VOLUNTEER MISSIONS TO HAITI,
10:28:56:25    BEGINNING IN JANUARY 2011.
10:29:00:00    TO MEET THAT CHALLENGE  --
10:29:01:27     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:29:02:06    >> TO MEET THAT CHALLENGE
10:29:05:21    GRANT, WHICH WILL SUPPLY $3
10:29:08:00    FOR EVERY 1 DOLLAR WE RAISE,
10:29:09:27    WE NEED TO RAISE $166,000,
10:29:13:16    JUST BECAUSE HAITI IS NO
10:29:14:24    LONGER IN THE NEWS, WE CAN NOT
10:29:16:06    ALLOW IT TO SLIP FROM OUR
10:29:18:03    HEARTS.
10:29:18:25    THE NEEDS THERE ARE STILL
10:29:20:24    ENORMOUS.
10:29:21:18    THE PEOPLE OF HAITI STILL IN
10:29:23:00    GREAT NEED.
10:29:24:03    HELP US MEET THAT NEED BY
10:29:25:22    SUPPORTING OUR THREE FOR ONE
10:29:27:24    FOR HAITI CHALLENGE.
10:29:29:06    LOG ONTO THE UUSC WEBSITE OR
10:29:32:01    STOP BY OUR BOOTH IN THE
10:29:33:27    EXHIBIT HALL TO MAKE YOUR
10:29:35:27    GIFT.
10:29:37:10     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:29:37:19    >> IN ALL THESE WAYS, THEN, IN
10:29:41:09    ALL THESE WAYS, UUSC IS YOUR
10:29:45:18    VEHICLE FOR, AS REVEREND IKE
10:29:49:12    USED TO SAY, FOR
10:29:52:19    TANGIBILITATING YOUR UNITARIAN
10:29:53:27    UNIVERSALIST VALUES.
10:29:56:09    FOR IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO WISH,
10:29:59:16    NOT ENOUGH TO TALK, NOT ENOUGH
10:30:01:12    TO WORSHIP, NOT ENOUGH TO
10:30:03:15    PRAY.
10:30:04:15    THEY'RE ALL GOOD, BUT THEY'RE
10:30:05:28    NOT ENOUGH IN THE FACE OF
10:30:07:22    TYRANNY AND REPRESSION AND
10:30:09:21    GREED AND FEAR.
10:30:11:09    WHAT IS REQUIRED IS TO JOIN
10:30:12:15    HANDS, TO USE OUR POWER, TO
10:30:15:00    INVEST IN THE BEST, TO MAKE
10:30:16:21    YOUR VOICE COUNT.                                     62
10:30:17:27    JOIN YOUR BROTHERS AND
10:30:19:06    SISTERS.
10:30:19:21    JOIN UUSC, MAKE YOUR VALUES
10:30:21:19    LIVE.
10:30:22:01    MAKE YOUR FAITH SHINE.
10:30:23:12    AND LET JUSTICE ROLL.
10:30:24:18    THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:30:26:00     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:30:26:15    >> YOUR CHAIR, JOHN GIBBONS.
10:30:31:03    >> YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO
10:30:42:06    MAKE JUSTICE ROLL.
10:30:44:24    WE FEEL SO FORTUNATE THAT YOU
10:30:47:19    WERE WILLING AND AVAILABLE
10:30:50:00    WHEN UUSC NEEDED AN INTERIM
10:30:53:06    PRESIDENT AND CEO.
10:30:55:04    THANK YOU SO MUCH, BOB.
10:30:59:09     [ LAUGHTER ]
10:30:59:21    >> ACTUALLY, BILL, BILL SCHULZ
10:31:04:01    SPEAKS A CRITICAL TRUTH BY
10:31:06:06    SAYING THAT IT IS NOT ENOUGH
10:31:07:27    FOR US TO TALK OR WORSHIP OR
10:31:11:04    PRAY ALONE.
10:31:12:16    NEITHER IS IT ENOUGH FOR ANY
10:31:14:18    OF US TO ACT ALONE, AND THAT
10:31:17:03    IS WHY TO EMPOWER OUR
10:31:19:22    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST VALUES,
10:31:22:12    WE NEED STRONG INSTITUTIONS,
10:31:25:21    STRONG CHURCHES, A STRONG
10:31:28:01    ASSOCIATION, AND A STRONG
10:31:29:18    UUSC.
10:31:33:21    YOU ARE VERY FORTUNATE THAT
10:31:34:28    CHARLIE CLEMENTS DID SO MUCH
10:31:36:16    TO HE KNOWER KNEES UUSC AND
10:31:39:00    THAT BILL STILL HAS SPRING IN
10:31:41:24    HIS STEP.
10:31:42:15    CHARLIE'S GREATEST LEGACY IS
10:31:44:21    THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF A
10:31:47:18    VITAL CONNECTION BETWEEN UUSC
10:31:51:10    AND OUR CONGREGATIONS, OUR
10:31:53:15    MINISTERS, OUR MEMBERS, AND
10:31:57:12    THE UUA.
10:31:58:06    THIS SUMMER, THE UUSC BOARD
10:32:01:00    WILL CONCLUDE A YEAR LONG
10:32:06:21    EFFORT TO REVISE OUR STRATEGIC
10:32:08:00    PLAN.
10:32:08:12    FOREMOST AMONG OUR AIMS IS
10:32:09:24    THAT WE STRENGTHEN UUSC'S
10:32:12:06    RELATIONSHIPS WITH UU
10:32:14:00    CONGREGATIONS, AND ESPECIALLY
10:32:16:06    WITH UU YOUTH AND YOUNG                               63
10:32:18:10    ADULTS, AND THAT WE MAXIMIZE
10:32:20:06    OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL OF US TO
10:32:21:24    WORK TOGETHER.
10:32:24:07    WE NEED YOU TO KEEP WRITING
10:32:28:03    GENEROUS CHECKS TO UUSC, BUT
10:32:31:01    OUR FUTURE DEMANDS THAT UUSC
10:32:34:06    CREATE MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR
10:32:36:18    UU'S AND UU CONGREGATIONS TO
10:32:40:09    PARTICIPATE AND EXPERIENCE THE
10:32:42:15    WORK OF JUSTICE-MAKING
10:32:44:06    PERSONALLY,
10:32:45:16    DIRT-UNDER-THE-NAILS,
10:32:48:21    HANDS-ON.
10:32:51:21    YES, UUSC IS SEARCHING FOR A
10:32:53:27    NEW PRESIDENT AND CEO.
10:32:55:27    WE SEEK SOMEONE TO BUILD UPON
10:32:58:04    CHARLIE'S AND BILL'S PUBLIC
10:33:00:24    WITNESS, BUT WE ARE NOT
10:33:02:09    LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO GO IT
10:33:04:13    ALONE.
10:33:07:00    CALL ME A SOCIALIST, BUT I
10:33:09:27    APPRECIATE EUGENE DEBS'
10:33:13:12    ADMONITION:  I WOULD NOT BE A
10:33:16:09    MOSES TO LEAD YOU INTO A
10:33:17:25    PROMISED LAND, BECAUSE IF I
10:33:19:24    COULD LEAD YOU INTO IT,
10:33:21:06    SOMEONE ELSE COULD LEAD YOU
10:33:23:01    RIGHT OUT OF IT.
10:33:25:21    WE SEEK A PRESIDENT AND CEO
10:33:29:00    WHO WILL WALK AND TALK AND
10:33:32:21    PRAY AND ACT WITH US TO
10:33:36:13    ADVANCE HUMAN RIGHTS AND
10:33:38:07    SOCIAL JUSTICE.
10:33:40:12    WE ARE WORKING WITH A SEARCH
10:33:42:12    FIRM, FORD WEBB ASSOCIATES, TO
10:33:45:25    THOROUGHLY SHAKE THE TREE FOR
10:33:48:06    PROSPECTIVE APPLICANTS, AND WE
10:33:51:00    HOPE TO BEAR FRUIT BY THE END
10:33:52:22    OF THIS YEAR.
10:33:54:18    IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW OR
10:33:57:28    SOMEONE YOU KNOW OF IS SOMEONE
10:34:00:12    WE SHOULD BE CONSIDERING,
10:34:03:09    PLEASE CONTACT US.
10:34:04:24    EVERY SUGGESTION WILL BE
10:34:06:13    SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED.
10:34:09:00    REVEREND IKE SAYS WE MUST
10:34:13:16    TANGIBILITATING BUT IT WAS
10:34:16:03    REVEREND BILLY, NOT THAT
10:34:17:27    REVEREND BILLY, WHO EXCLAIMS
10:34:23:12    CHANGE-ALLUIA.                                        64
10:34:25:00    WE COPE WITH CHANGE.
10:34:26:25    WE PLAN TO CHANGE.
10:34:28:06    WE STRIVE FOR CHANGE TOGETHER.
10:34:31:15    BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
10:34:33:04    CHANGE-ALLUIA!
10:34:36:21     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:34:37:09    >> WHAT A GOOD MORNING.
10:34:50:15    PLEASE WELCOME LARRY LAD,
10:34:52:18    CHAIR OF THE BOARD, AND THE
10:34:55:13    REVEREND LEE BARKER, PRESIDENT
10:34:58:06    OF YOUR THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL,
10:34:59:12    MEADVILLE LOMBARD.
10:35:01:25     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:35:02:10    THANK YOU, GINI, FOR MAKING
10:35:11:10    TIME FOR THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.
10:35:12:24    IT GIVES ME GREAT, GREAT,
10:35:13:27    GREAT PLEASURE TO TELL YOU
10:35:15:12    THAT LAST WEEK THE BOARDS OF
10:35:18:10    TRUSTEES OF BOTH
10:35:20:00    MEADVILLE-LOMBARD THEOLOGICAL
10:35:22:00    SCHOOL AND ANDOVER NEWTON
10:35:25:06    THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL VOTED TO
10:35:27:18    COFOUND A NEW MULTI FAITH
10:35:30:22    THEOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY.
10:35:33:06     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:35:33:15    >> THIS WILL BE LIKE NO OTHER
10:35:41:24    UNIVERSITY IN NORTH AMERICA.
10:35:43:25    FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW
10:35:48:00    LITTLE ABOUT THEOLOGICAL
10:35:49:09    SCHOOLS, LET ME PROVIDE SOME
10:35:50:22    BACKGROUND.
10:35:52:00    MEADVILLE-LOMBARD IS ONE OF
10:35:53:21    TWO SEMINARIES AFFILIATED WITH
10:35:56:10    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM AND
10:35:58:06    IT'S LOCATED IN CHICAGO.
10:36:01:18    ANDOVER NEWTON IS AFFILIATED
10:36:03:06    WITH THE UNITED CHURCH OF
10:36:05:15    CHRIST AND THE AMERICAN
10:36:06:03    BAPTISTS.
10:36:07:12    IT'S LOCATED IN NEWTON, JUST
10:36:09:16    OUTSIDE OF BOSTON.
10:36:12:18    MINISTERS FROM MANY FAITH ARE
10:36:14:09    EDUCATED THERE, INCLUDING A
10:36:15:28    LARGE NUMBER OF UNITARIAN
10:36:17:21    UNIVERSALISTS.
10:36:20:03    FOR DECADES, SEMINARIES HAVE
10:36:22:13    BEEN STRUGGLING, HAMPERED BY
10:36:25:00    SMALL SIZE, INSUFFICIENT
10:36:26:03    ENDOWMENTS, DIMINISHING
10:36:28:15    DENOMINATIONAL RESOURCES, AND                         65
10:36:30:09    INCREASING ADMINISTRATIVE
10:36:32:06    COSTS.
10:36:33:15    THE RECENT ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
10:36:36:10    BROUGHT THIS CRISIS TO A HEAD
10:36:38:10    AND SCHOOLS ACROSS THE
10:36:40:03    PROTESTANT MAINSTREAM HAVE
10:36:42:09    CLOSED AND THERE WILL BE MANY
10:36:44:06    MORE THAT CLOSE.
10:36:46:15    FOR MEADVILLE-LOMBARD, ANDOVER
10:36:50:18    NEWTON, AND THE SEMINARIES OF
10:36:52:16    ALL FAITH THAT MIGHT JOIN US,
10:36:55:06    OUR NEW THEOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
10:36:56:28    PROMISES FINANCIAL STABILITY
10:36:58:16    AND THE RETENTION OF THE
10:37:00:18    UNIQUE IDENTITY, MISSION, AND
10:37:03:13    CULTURE OF EACH MEMBER SCHOOL.
10:37:07:00    IN OUR CASE, OUR UNITARIAN
10:37:08:18    UNIVERSALIST FACULTY WILL
10:37:12:00    CONTINUE TO EDUCATE UNITARIAN
10:37:14:03    UNIVERSALIST MINISTERS.
10:37:17:28     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:37:18:10    >> IT IS A VERY BOLD
10:37:25:06    ENTERPRISE, AND I'M PROUD THAT
10:37:27:12    OUR TRUSTEES, UNDER THE
10:37:28:15    AWESOME LEADERSHIP OF LARRY
10:37:31:00    LADD, ROSE TO THE CHALLENGE.
10:37:33:01    WE'VE CALL AGREED THAT THE
10:37:35:03    FORMAL ESTABLISHMENT OF THE
10:37:36:06    NOT YET NAMED UNIVERSITY WILL
10:37:38:21    TAKE PLACE BY JUNE 15TH, 2011,
10:37:42:28    1 YEAR FROM NOW.
10:37:43:22    AND HERE'S HOW IT WILL WORK.
10:37:46:06    MEADVILLE-LOMBARD WILL REMAIN
10:37:47:21    IN CHICAGO, OFFERING AN
10:37:49:22    INNOVATIVE TOUCH POINT
10:37:51:09    CURRICULUM FOR UNITARIAN
10:37:52:03    UNIVERSALIST STUDENTS.
10:37:54:12    CURRENTLY WE HAVE 125 STUDENTS
10:37:56:24    WITH A CLASS OF 30 COMING IN
10:37:58:24    THE FALL.
10:38:01:13    ANDOVER NEWTON WILL REMAIN ON
10:38:03:24    ITS CURRENT MASSACHUSETTS
10:38:05:09    CAMPUS AND MAINTAIN ITS
10:38:06:28    RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM IN WHICH
10:38:09:01    THERE ARE 58 UNITARIAN
10:38:09:24    UNIVERSALIST STUDENTS
10:38:12:03    ENROLLED.
10:38:13:21     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:38:14:01    >> WE WILL SHARE
10:38:15:24    ADMINISTRATIVE RESOURCES,                             66
10:38:17:18    FACULTY RESOURCES.
10:38:20:10    STUDENTS WILL TRULY EXPERIENCE
10:38:22:27    PLURALISTIC MULTI FAITH
10:38:26:03    LEARNING, AND OUR CONSERVATIVE
10:38:28:01    ANALYSIS INDICATES THAT WE
10:38:29:06    WILL WELCOME FINANCIALLY
10:38:30:06    SUSTAINABLE WITHIN THE FIRST
10:38:32:09    TWO YEARS OF OPERATION.
10:38:34:19     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:38:35:01    >> THIS HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY
10:38:41:19    HARD WORK.
10:38:42:07    NONE OF US AT
10:38:43:01    MEADVILLE-LOMBARD COULD HAVE
10:38:44:27    DONE IT WITHOUT THE VISION AND
10:38:45:27    RESOLVE OF OUR TRUSTEES AND
10:38:47:19    MOST IMPORTANTLY, OUR BOARD
10:38:50:00    CHAIR, LAWRENCE LADD.
10:38:52:06    LARRY, WE ALL THANK YOU.
10:38:55:13     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:38:55:25    >> THANK YOU, LEE.
10:39:04:00    AND THANK YOU TO THE OTHER
10:39:05:09    MEMBERS OF THE
10:39:06:12    MEADVILLE-LOMBARD NEGOTIATING
10:39:08:13    TEAM THAT RE-ENVISIONED THIS
10:39:10:18    NEW UNIVERSITY WITH OUR
10:39:11:24    ANDOVER NEWTON COLLEAGUES.
10:39:14:03    MARGERY GURTH, FROM THE
10:39:16:01    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
10:39:16:16    CONGREGATION OF ATLANTA; CRAIG
10:39:20:13    SHOAL, PAST CHAIR OF THE UUA
10:39:23:00    INVESTMENT COMMITTEE; AND
10:39:24:15    SOMEONE NAMED REVEREND WILLIAM
10:39:26:28    G. SINKFORD, WHO HAS SOME
10:39:28:22    HISTORY IN THIS BODY.
10:39:32:27    I'D ALSO LIKE TO INTRODUCE AND
10:39:35:06    THANK THE SUCCESSORS TO THE
10:39:36:21    VISIONARIES WHO CONCEIVED OF
10:39:38:24    THE MEADVILLE-LOMBARD
10:39:40:10    THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL IN
10:39:41:12    MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, AND
10:39:43:09    LOMBARD  -- AND THE
10:39:44:12    UNIVERSALIST VISIONARIES WHO
10:39:46:10    CONCEIVED OF LOMBARD COLLEGE
10:39:48:18    IN GALESBURG, ILLINOIS.
10:39:50:15    THOSE TRUSTEES FULFILLING THAT
10:39:52:19    CONTINUING MISSION ARE STAN
10:39:54:21    CHRISTIANSON, GUS DUOGE, DAVID
10:40:01:04    FROST, PAUL JOHNSON, JUSTIN
10:40:03:15    OSTERMAN, AND GLEN SOLOMON.
10:40:10:18     [ APPLAUSE ]                                         67
10:40:11:03    >> I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE
10:40:22:00    THE TWO OF THE THREE UNITARIAN
10:40:23:21    UNIVERSALIST TRUSTEES OF THE
10:40:26:21    ANDOVER NEWTON THEOLOGICAL
10:40:29:24    SCHOOL WHO ARE PRESENT HERE
10:40:30:27    TODAY.
10:40:31:12    REVEREND TOM WINTEL AND
10:40:33:25    REVEREND JIM SHERBEL.
10:40:36:24     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:40:37:09    >> AND FINALLY, IT IS MY
10:40:43:00    PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE TO YOU
10:40:44:18    THE PRESIDENT OF ANDOVER
10:40:46:06    NEWTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, THE
10:40:48:06    ARCHITECT OF THIS VISION.
10:40:50:18    AND WHEN THE NEW UNIVERSITY IS
10:40:52:00    OFFICIALLY CREATED, IT'S FIRST
10:40:55:04    PRESIDENT, THE REVEREND NICK
10:40:56:18    CARTER.
10:40:57:09    NICK, WOULD YOU STAND, PLEASE?
10:40:58:21     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:40:59:09    >> THIS IS A NEW DAY FOR
10:41:10:00    THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN
10:41:12:18    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM, AND WE
10:41:13:24    ARE PROUD TO USHER IT IN.
10:41:15:25    THANK YOU.
10:41:17:00     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:41:17:15    >> THANK YOU.
10:41:19:12    NICELY DONE, GENTLEMEN.
10:41:20:18    THANK YOU.
10:41:20:28    WELL MEG RILEY AGAIN.
10:41:24:27    SHE'S GOT SOMETHING TO TELL
10:41:25:27    US.
10:41:26:06    >>
10:41:30:19    >> I GOT SOMEBODY TO TELL YOU.
10:41:32:03    IT IS MY DISTINCT PLEASURE TO
10:41:33:21    INTRODUCE YOU TO MY CONGRESS
10:41:36:06    PERSON, KEITH ELLISON.
10:41:38:12     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:41:38:18    >> YOU MAY REMEMBER KEITH
10:41:48:00    ELLISON AS THE FIRST MUSLIM
10:41:50:00    CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE
10:41:51:25    ELECTED IN THIS NATION IN
10:41:54:18    2006.
10:41:55:12    HERE IN THE FIFTH
10:41:56:21    CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF
10:41:57:19    MINNESOTA, WHICH INCLUDES
10:42:00:00    MINNEAPOLIS AND SURROUNDING
10:42:01:21    SUBURBS, AND I KNOW SOME OF
10:42:03:01    YOU WILL GET VERY UPSET IF I
10:42:04:09    DON'T CLARIFY THAT ST. PAUL IS                        68
10:42:06:00    NOT A SUBURB OF MINNEAPOLIS.
10:42:09:01     [ LAUGHTER ]
10:42:09:10    >> KEITH ELLISON IS FIRST AND
10:42:14:28    FOREMOST OUR FRIEND AND
10:42:15:28    NEIGHBOR.
10:42:16:03    WHEN I SAY OUR, I MEAN
10:42:17:21    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS.
10:42:20:00    KEITH HAS STOOD WITH US ON
10:42:21:01    VIRTUALLY EVERY ISSUE WE CARE
10:42:23:09    ABOUT RANGING FROM A SAFE
10:42:24:18    ENVIRONMENT TO PEACE, CIVIL
10:42:26:06    AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR EVERY
10:42:27:16    CITIZEN, REGARDLESS OF RACE,
10:42:29:24    RELIGION, GENDER, OR SEXUAL
10:42:31:27    ORIENTATION, OR IMMIGRANT
10:42:33:07    STATUS.
10:42:34:15    HOW AMAZING THAT THE FIRST
10:42:36:00    MUSLIM IN CONGRESS SUPPORTED
10:42:38:12    MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR ALL
10:42:39:13    PEOPLE.
10:42:40:04     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:42:40:16    >> BUT WHILE HE'S OUR FRIEND
10:42:55:28    AND NEIGHBOR, HE'S BY NO MEANS
10:42:58:15    SPECIAL AND UNIQUE IN THIS
10:42:59:15    REGARD.
10:42:59:27    KEITH'S WEBSITE SAYS THAT,
10:43:01:06    QUOTE, HIS PHILOSOPHY IS ONE
10:43:02:21    OF GENEROSITY AND INCLUSIVITY.
10:43:05:06    AMONG US HERE TODAY, I WOULD
10:43:06:18    CALL IT MORE THAN A
10:43:07:15    PHILOSOPHY.
10:43:08:06    I WOULD CALL IT A MINISTRY.
10:43:11:04    TO SEE HIM IN ACTION IN
10:43:12:21    CONGRESS IS TO KNOW THAT YOU
10:43:13:21    ARE CARED ABOUT, NO MATTER WHO
10:43:16:09    YOU ARE, NO MATTER WHETHER YOU
10:43:17:19    VOTED FOR HIM OR NOT.
10:43:19:07    TO ATTEND AN EVENT THAT KEITH
10:43:21:03    HAS PUT TOGETHER IS TO SEE
10:43:22:21    MINNEAPOLIS IN ALL OF ITS
10:43:23:22    MULTI-CULTURAL GLORY.
10:43:25:06    AND THAT IS WHY THE CITIZENS
10:43:27:24    OF THE FIFTH DISTRICT ARE
10:43:28:28    INCREDIBLY PROUD TO CLAIM HIM
10:43:30:22    AS OUR OWN AND I WANT TO
10:43:32:24    INTRODUCE HIM TO YOU TODAY.
10:43:34:18    THANK YOU.
10:43:35:06    >> WELCOME.
10:43:41:00    WELCOME TO MINNEAPOLIS!
10:43:42:03    WELCOME TO MINNEAPOLIS,                               69
10:43:46:09    EVERYBODY!
10:43:48:24    ALL 3400 OF YOU.
10:43:51:16    WE'RE SO HAPPY THAT YOU'RE
10:43:53:00    HERE.
10:43:53:09    WE'RE HONORED TO HAVE YOU IN
10:43:54:12    OUR TOWN AND WE ARE HONORED BY
10:43:56:21    YOUR PRESENCE.
10:43:57:19    WELCOME TO THE PLACE THAT THE
10:44:00:15    GREAT PAUL WELLSTONE CALLED
10:44:02:03    HOME, THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.
10:44:06:00    WELCOME.
10:44:06:21    WELCOME TO THE PLACE WHERE
10:44:08:24    HUBERT H. HUMPHREY WAS THE
10:44:11:07    MAYOR AND IS WELL-KNOWN FOR
10:44:12:27    SAYING THAT THE MORAL TEST OF
10:44:14:06    A NATION IS HOW IT TREATS THE
10:44:15:22    PEOPLE IN THE DAWN OF LIFE,
10:44:17:18    THE CHILDREN, THE TWILIGHT OF
10:44:19:00    LIFE, THE SENIORS, AND THE
10:44:20:06    SHADOWS OF LIFE, THE POOR AND
10:44:22:01    THE NEEDY.
10:44:23:00    WELCOME TO OUR STATE.
10:44:25:03    WELCOME TO OUR STATE.
10:44:26:06     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:44:26:19    >> WHERE EUGENE McCARTHY
10:44:28:27    STOOD AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR,
10:44:31:15    EVEN THOUGH HE HAD TO FIGHT
10:44:34:10    FOR IT.
10:44:35:06    WELCOME TO OUR STATE OF
10:44:36:18    MINNESOTA, WE'RE SO PROUD TO
10:44:38:27    HAVE YOU HERE.
10:44:39:19    WE ARE HONORED TO HAVE YOU
10:44:40:13    HERE.
10:44:41:16    YOU KNOW, I'M SO PLEASED TO
10:44:44:12    SEE YOUR YELLOW SHIRTS AROUND
10:44:46:28    THAT SAY THE WORD LOVE.
10:44:49:01    PROCLAIM LOVE.
10:44:50:21    PROCLAIM LOVE NOT JUST AS A
10:44:52:06    FUZZY WARM NOTION, BUT AN
10:44:54:10    ACTIVE PRINCIPLE ENGAGED IN
10:44:57:18    INFORMING US ABOUT HOW WE LIVE
10:44:59:03    WITH EACH OTHER, WITH OUR
10:45:00:15    PLANET, WITH THIS ECONOMY,
10:45:03:07    WITH THE WAY WE DO BUSINESS.
10:45:05:24    LOVE IS A VERB.
10:45:07:03    IT SHOULD BE ACTIVE.
10:45:09:01    IT SHOULD BE SPECIFIC.
10:45:10:00    AND IT'S NOT WEAK.
10:45:11:00    ACTUALLY, IT'S QUITE POWERFUL.
10:45:13:12    AND IT'S BRAVE FOR YOU TO HAVE                        70
10:45:14:09    LOVE ON YOUR CHEST, BECAUSE
10:45:15:10    SOME PEOPLE WILL LOOK AT AND
10:45:16:15    YOU SAY, OH, LOVE, YOU KNOW,
10:45:18:00    IT'S JUST A SENTIMENTAL
10:45:19:18    NOTION.
10:45:19:27    IT'S NOT PRACTICAL.
10:45:20:25    IT'S NOT REALISTIC.
10:45:22:03    FOR ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO FIGHT
10:45:23:21    WAR AFTER WAR AFTER WAR AND
10:45:25:21    SPEND MONEY AFTER DOLLAR AFTER
10:45:27:04    DOLLAR, FIGHTING THESE WARS
10:45:28:07    THAT WE NEVER GET PEACE, I'M
10:45:30:00    TELLING YOU, LOVE IS WAY MORE
10:45:32:28    PRACTICAL, WAY MORE REALISTIC,
10:45:34:19    WAY MORE ECONOMICALLY SENSIBLE
10:45:37:21    THAN ANY OF THESE OTHER
10:45:38:18    PRINCIPLES THAT WE BRING TO
10:45:40:19    BEAR.
10:45:41:01    LOVE IS THE WAY WE SHOULD DO
10:45:42:12    BUSINESS.
10:45:43:06     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:45:43:18    >> LOVE IS THE THING THAT
10:45:44:18    MAKES SENSE.
10:45:47:10    THAT'S RIGHT.
10:45:50:15    THAT'S RIGHT.
10:45:52:03    AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, THE FACT
10:45:53:18    IS THAT WE'RE HERE TOGETHER,
10:45:57:06    JOINED TOGETHER, AND I JUST
10:45:58:18    WANT TO RECALL A STORY FROM
10:46:01:13    THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE.
10:46:02:27    I'M A MUSLIM, BUT YEAH, I'M
10:46:04:18    TALKING ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN
10:46:05:24    BIBLE TODAY.
10:46:06:15    AND IT'S VERY UNIVERSAL THAT
10:46:08:25    I'M GOING TO SAY, BECAUSE IT'S
10:46:10:06    A STORY ABOUT A JEWISH
10:46:11:12    PREACHER AND THE CHRISTIAN
10:46:14:25    SCRIPTURE, AND OF COURSE
10:46:15:21    JESUS, WHO I'M GOING TO TALK
10:46:17:03    TO YOU ABOUT IS A HIGHLY
10:46:19:04    REGARDED SPIRITUAL VESSEL AND
10:46:22:09    PROPHET IN MY OWN FAITH.
10:46:23:24    SO WE'RE GOING TO EMBRACE
10:46:25:04    EVERYBODY, PRETTY MUCH.
10:46:26:18    YOU KNOW, JESUS WAS TEACHING
10:46:27:27    TO THE MULTITUDES ONE DAY, AND
10:46:29:28    HE GOT A LITTLE BIT AFTER HE
10:46:34:09    WOULD TEACH SO LONG AND TALK
10:46:35:12    TO THE MULTITUDES.
10:46:36:19    IT GOTTA LONG AROUND                                  71
10:46:37:19    DINNERTIME, AND HIS HELPERS,
10:46:39:06    YOU KNOW, HE TURNED TO THEM
10:46:40:06    AND SAID, YOU KNOW, IT'S
10:46:41:06    GETTING TO BE AROUND
10:46:42:06    DINNERTIME, SO WHAT DO WE HAVE
10:46:43:19    FOR THE FOLKS TO FEED THEM?
10:46:44:27    AND HE TURNED TO THEM AND
10:46:46:06    SAID, WHAT HAVE WE GOT?
10:46:47:03    THEY SAID, ALL WE'VE GOT, MAN,
10:46:49:16    IS A COUPLE OF FISH AND SOME
10:46:51:01    BARLEY LOAVES.
10:46:52:27    AND THEY SAID  -- AND THEY
10:46:54:21    LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND THEY
10:46:55:19    LOOKED AT HIM AND SAID, THAT'S
10:46:56:27    NOT ENOUGH TO FEED ALL OF
10:46:58:12    THESE PEOPLE.
10:46:58:24    IT'S NOT ENOUGH.
10:46:59:18    THEY'VE GOT TO GO HOME.
10:47:00:21    WE CAN'T HELP THEM OUT.
10:47:02:01    THEY'VE GOT TO GO.
10:47:02:21    IT'S TIME TO WRAP IT UP,
10:47:04:00    BROTHER.
10:47:04:18     [ LAUGHTER ]
10:47:05:00    >> I'VE BEEN IN THAT
10:47:07:06    SITUATION, LET ME TELL YOU.
10:47:09:00     [ LAUGHTER ]
10:47:09:09    >> AND JESUS, HE DIDN'T ARGUE
10:47:13:10    WITH THEM.
10:47:14:01    HE JUST STARTED HANDING OUT
10:47:15:12    FOOD.
10:47:15:24    AND AS THE SCRIPTURE GOES,
10:47:17:24    THERE WAS ENOUGH.
10:47:19:19    THERE WAS ENOUGH.
10:47:21:19    NOW, I WASN'T THERE.
10:47:22:12    I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
10:47:23:03    I MEAN, MAYBE THE PEOPLE
10:47:25:06    NOTICED THERE WASN'T ENOUGH,
10:47:26:09    SO THEY WENT HOME TO THEIR
10:47:30:24    VILLAGES AND THEY GOT MORE
10:47:31:27    FOOD TO SHARE.
10:47:32:18    OR MAYBE WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT
10:47:33:21    THE DISCIPLES' PERCEPTION OF
10:47:36:03    SCARCITY WAS MISINFORMED AND
10:47:39:10    ACTUALLY THERE WAS MORE THAN
10:47:41:04    THEY UNDERSTOOD THERE TO BE.
10:47:42:18    MAYBE THERE WAS ABUNDANCE,
10:47:45:15    MAYBE THERE WAS RADICAL
10:47:46:24    ABUNDANCE, THOUGH THEY SAW
10:47:50:18    SCARCITY.
10:47:52:24    I DON'T KNOW.                                         72
10:47:54:13    I DON'T KNOW.
10:47:54:25    BUT THE SCRIPTURE SAYS THAT
10:47:56:27    AFTER THE MEAL, THERE WAS NOT
10:48:00:03    JUST ENOUGH.
10:48:01:00    THERE WAS MORE THAN ENOUGH,
10:48:02:10    AND THEY HAD TO PICK UP WHAT
10:48:03:07    WAS LEFT OVER.
10:48:05:00    AND YOU KNOW, TODAY, YOU KNOW,
10:48:06:15    THERE'S ENOUGH.
10:48:08:06    THERE'S ENOUGH FOR YOU AND FOR
10:48:09:25    ME.
10:48:10:00    THERE'S ENOUGH FOR THE
10:48:12:12    STRAIGHT AND THE GAY.
10:48:12:27    THERE'S ENOUGH FOR THE PEOPLE
10:48:14:06    WHO ARE BORN IN AMERICA AND
10:48:15:25    THE NEW IMMIGRANTS.
10:48:17:12    THERE'S ENOUGH FOR THE BLACKS.
10:48:19:00    THERE'S ENOUGH FOR THE WHITES.
10:48:20:06    THERE'S ENOUGH FOR THE
10:48:20:27    LATINOS.
10:48:21:24    THERE'S ENOUGH FOR THE ASIANS.
10:48:23:07    THERE'S ENOUGH FOR THE
10:48:24:12    MUSLIMS, THE CHRISTIANS AND
10:48:25:24    JEWS, THE BUDDHISTS, THE
10:48:27:09    HINDUS.
10:48:28:06    THERE IS ENOUGH, EVERYBODY!
10:48:29:28    THERE'S ENOUGH FOR YOU.
10:48:31:00    THERE'S ENOUGH FOR ME.
10:48:32:27    WE DON'T HAVE TO THROW ANYBODY
10:48:35:03    UNDER THE BUS.
10:48:36:01    WE DON'T HAVE TO CHASE ANYBODY
10:48:37:21    OUT THE DOOR.
10:48:38:24    WE DON'T HAVE TO SAY WHO
10:48:40:15    DOESN'T BELONG AND WHO'S NOT
10:48:42:00    INCLUDED.
10:48:43:10    THERE IS ENOUGH!
10:48:46:06    THERE'S ENOUGH.
10:48:47:00    RIGHT?
10:48:50:04    BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
10:48:53:27    THERE MAY NOT  -- THERE MAY
10:48:56:18    NOT BE ENOUGH IF WE CONTINUE
10:49:01:03    TO SPEND MORE THAN ANY OTHER
10:49:05:16    NATION ON THE MILITARY.
10:49:06:19    THERE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH IF WE
10:49:08:00    CONTINUE TO SPEND $708 BILLION
10:49:13:03    ON WAR AND WAR MAKING WHEN WE
10:49:17:00    SPEND VERY, VERY LITTLE ON
10:49:18:04    PEACEMAKING.
10:49:20:09    700 BILLION FOR WAR,
10:49:22:06    41 BILLION FOR STATE                                  73
10:49:23:19    DEPARTMENT AND DIPLOMACY.
10:49:25:21    OUR NUMBERS ARE ALL MESSED UP.
10:49:28:12    AND LET ME JUST TELL YOU,
10:49:29:28    THERE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH IF
10:49:31:07    THERE'S GREED, IF THERE'S
10:49:32:21    HOARDING.
10:49:33:12    THERE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH IF WE
10:49:36:04    TAKE THE BOUNTIFUL OCEANS THAT
10:49:38:00    WE'VE BEEN BLESSED WITH AND WE
10:49:39:27    POLLUTE THEM WITH FOSSIL FUELS
10:49:43:09    AND SPILL INTO OUR OCEANS.
10:49:45:15    YOU KNOW, JUST RECENTLY, WE
10:49:46:28    HAD 49 MINERS KILLED IN A COAL
10:49:56:00    MINE BECAUSE THEY WERE TRYING
10:49:56:27    TO DIG OUT BURNING FOSSIL FUEL
10:49:58:21    THAT POLLUTES OUR ENVIRONMENT.
10:50:00:19    WE HAD 11 PEOPLE KILLED RIGHT
10:50:02:09    IN THE SPILL HAPPENED, AND
10:50:03:18    UNTOLD AMOUNT OF WILDLIFE
10:50:05:12    KILLED IN THE GULF OF MEXICO.
10:50:06:03    THERE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH IF WE
10:50:07:13    DO THAT.
10:50:08:24    WE MUST BE EFFICIENT.
10:50:09:24    WE MUST CONSERVE.
10:50:11:03    WE MUST LIVE IN HARMONY WITH
10:50:13:19    THIS BEAUTIFUL EARTH WE'VE
10:50:15:00    BEEN BLESSED WITH AND CARE FOR
10:50:16:27    IT.
10:50:17:18    WE CAN'T DESTROY IT.
10:50:18:25     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:50:19:07    >> YOU KNOW THERE, MAY NOT BE
10:50:26:21    ENOUGH IF WE SQUANDER AND
10:50:27:24    WASTE WHAT WE HAVE.
10:50:28:21    THERE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH IF WE
10:50:31:10    DEVOTE ALL OF OUR RESOURCES TO
10:50:34:00    WAR MAKING AND KILLING AND
10:50:35:03    DESTRUCTION.
10:50:35:18    BUT THERE IS ENOUGH, BROTHERS
10:50:37:10    AND SISTERS, IF WE WILL
10:50:38:22    EMBRACE LOVE.
10:50:40:06    IF WE WILL EMBRACE UNITY.
10:50:41:24    IF WE WILL RECOGNIZE THE
10:50:43:10    INHERENT AND ESSENTIAL DIGNITY
10:50:45:18    OF ALL LIVING THINGS, NOT JUST
10:50:47:21    HUMAN BEINGS, BUT OUR FELLOW
10:50:51:16    NATURAL LIFE IN THIS WORLD AS
10:50:52:24    WELL.
10:50:53:06     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:50:53:18    >> AND I JUST WANT TO SAY TO
10:50:59:24    YOU THAT THERE IS ENOUGH IF                           74
10:51:02:06    YOU AND I WILL COMMIT
10:51:04:16    OURSELVES AND HAVE A STRENGTH
10:51:06:09    OF SPIRIT, NOT TOUGH, NOT BAD,
10:51:10:03    BUT A STRENGTH OF SPIRIT BASED
10:51:12:27    ON OUR BELIEF THAT LOVE IS THE
10:51:15:21    ANSWER AND THAT PEOPLE WHO
10:51:18:07    DON'T QUITE SEE THAT, PEOPLE
10:51:20:24    WHO ARE OPERATING ON THE BASIS
10:51:22:03    OF FEAR WHO THINK THAT IT'S
10:51:23:28    IMPORTANT TO THROW PEOPLE AWAY
10:51:25:00    AND THROW PEOPLE OUT AND
10:51:26:09    DIVIDE US, IF YOU WILL BE
10:51:28:21    STRONG AND BRAVE ENOUGH TO
10:51:29:19    STAND UP AGAINST THAT
10:51:30:10    PHILOSOPHY, NOT AGAINST THOSE
10:51:31:27    PEOPLE, BUT AGAINST THE
10:51:32:24    PHILOSOPHY, BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN
10:51:34:15    CHANGE, RIGHT?
10:51:37:21     [ APPLAUSE ]
10:51:38:03    >> THEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO
10:51:41:27    REALLY SAY THERE IS ENOUGH,
10:51:44:21    BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE AND YOU
10:51:46:00    IT'S GOING TO TAKE ME, AND YOU
10:51:47:06    KNOW WHAT?
10:51:48:25    CYNICISM IS NOT A VIRTUE.
10:51:51:09    IT'S NOT.
10:51:55:06    OF COURSE PRESIDENT OBAMA
10:51:57:01    HASN'T BROUGHT FORTH HEAVEN ON
10:51:58:27    EARTH.
10:52:00:00    DID YOU THINK THAT HE WAS
10:52:00:27    GOING TO?
10:52:04:00    HE NEEDS A STRONG MOVEMENT
10:52:07:24    BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF LOVE
10:52:09:27    TO PROPEL HIM FORWARD TO DO
10:52:11:12    THE RIGHT THING.
10:52:12:00    I THINK HE WANTS TO DO THE
10:52:13:03    RIGHT THING, BUT WHEN HE'S GOT
10:52:17:09    THE WARMONGERS PULLING ON HIM,
10:52:19:18    IT'S NOT EASY TO DO THE RIGHT
10:52:21:07    THING.
10:52:21:16    SO LOOK, I'M JUST GOING TO SAY
10:52:23:18    WELCOME TO MINNEAPOLIS.
10:52:25:12    WE'RE SO HONORED TO HAVE YOU
10:52:26:27    HERE.
10:52:28:19    I COULD GO ON AND ON WITH THIS
10:52:30:07    STUFF, BUT I CAN'T DO IT,
10:52:32:15    BECAUSE THERE'S OTHER FOLKS
10:52:33:12    WHO NEED TO TELL YOU OTHER
10:52:34:15    THINGS, BUT I SAY BLESS YOU.
10:52:37:12    I LOVE YOU.                                           75
10:52:40:18    AND I'M SO GLAD TO BE HERE.
10:52:42:12    HAVE A GREAT CONVENTION.
10:52:44:18    [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
10:52:45:00    >> WHO WANTS TO STAND ON THE
10:52:56:03    SIDE OF LOVE WITH
10:52:57:07    REPRESENTATIVE KEITH ELLISON?
10:52:59:21    [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
10:53:00:06    >> GET THAT MAN A T-SHIRT.
10:53:08:21    WHO'S GLAD THEY'RE IN PLENARY
10:53:10:13    HALL TODAY?
10:53:12:00    [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
10:53:12:15    THIS IS THE BUSINESS OF OUR
10:53:16:15    ASSOCIATION.
10:53:21:24    AND THEN THERE'S STUFF TO VOTE
10:53:23:09    ON.
10:53:26:07    OKAY.
10:53:27:06    WE ARE SO WAY BEHIND, BUT
10:53:29:09    WE'RE JUST NOT GOING TO CARE.
10:53:31:19    OKAY?
10:53:34:27    BECAUSE LOVE IS IN THE HALL.
10:53:43:21    WE NEED TO VOTE TO ADMIT
10:53:45:03    ACTIONS OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS
10:53:45:28    TO OUR SUNDAY AGENDA TODAY.
10:53:48:06    WE HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER
10:53:49:15    BUSINESS WE'RE NOT GOING TO
10:53:50:15    GET IT ALL DONE THIS MORNING.
10:53:51:22    WE'LL FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO
10:53:53:06    THAT.
10:53:53:15    THAT'S ALL RIGHT, I THINK.
10:53:55:09    WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THE FIRST
10:53:56:19    STEPS IN OUR PROCESS FOR
10:53:58:07    ADOPTING ACTIONS OF IMMEDIATE
10:53:59:12    WITNESS.
10:53:59:21    I'M JUST LIKE BOUNCING UP
10:54:00:27    HERE.
10:54:01:09    YOU KNOW?
10:54:01:21    WOW.
10:54:02:28    BYLAWS, SECTION 4.16 PROVIDES
10:54:05:03    THAT NOT MORE THAN 6AIW'S CAN
10:54:08:03    BE ADMITTED TO THE AGENDA FOR
10:54:10:00    POSSIBLE FINAL ACTION AND THAT
10:54:12:18    TWO-THIRDS OF THE DELEGATES
10:54:13:24    MUST SUPPORT THE ADMISSION FOR
10:54:15:18    EACH ONE TO THE AGENDA.
10:54:16:28    YOU'RE GOING TO NEED A COPY OF
10:54:18:15    TODAY'S PINK CSW ALERT,
10:54:20:09    DELEGATES.
10:54:20:27    IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE, PLEASE
10:54:22:04    RAISE YOUR HAND AND THE
10:54:22:25    TELLERS WILL TRY TO GET YOU                           76
10:54:24:06    ONE OR PEOPLE NEARBY MAY LET
10:54:26:15    YOU LOOK ON.
10:54:27:03    WE'LL ALL BE GOOD HERE.
10:54:34:00    AND WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT WE
10:54:35:00    NEED TO CORRECT.
10:54:36:09    SO WHILE THERE ARE SIX ACTIONS
10:54:38:10    OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS THAT
10:54:40:09    QUALIFIED ON THE BASIS OF THE
10:54:42:09    COMMISSION ON SOCIAL WITNESS,
10:54:43:19    WE HAVE A LITTLE ISSUE THAT
10:54:44:19    ONE OF THEM ACTUALLY CAN'T BE
10:54:46:15    AN ACTION OF IMMEDIATE
10:54:47:12    WITNESS, SO LET'S WALK THROUGH
10:54:49:00    THIS TOGETHER QUICKLY.
10:54:50:01    FIRST, ACTION OF IMMEDIATE
10:54:52:24    WITNESS NUMBER ONE, OPPOSE
10:54:53:15    ANTI-IMMIGRANT MEASURES AT THE
10:54:55:13    STATE LEVEL AND HASTEN FEDERAL
10:54:57:12    IMMIGRATION REFORM.
10:54:58:12    ACTION OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS
10:54:59:06    NUMBER TWO, END BLOCKADE OF
10:55:02:16    GAZE AND GROWTH OF ISRAELI
10:55:04:00    SETTLEMENTS ON PALESTINIAN
10:55:06:12    TERRITORY.
10:55:06:21    ACTION OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS
10:55:07:13    NUMBER THREE, GULF COAST
10:55:09:07    ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC
10:55:11:12    JUSTICE 2010.
10:55:13:21    ACTION OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS
10:55:14:25    NUMBER FOUR, CLEAN UP THE
10:55:16:01    CLEAN ENERGY BILL.
10:55:19:09    AND ACTION OF IMMEDIATE
10:55:20:00    WITNESS NUMBER SIX, END THE
10:55:24:00    U.S. WAR IN AFGHANISTAN AND
10:55:25:21    PAKISTAN, ALL MEET THE
10:55:26:27    REQUIREMENTS FOR AN ACTION OF
10:55:28:13    IMMEDIATE WITNESS.
10:55:29:07    HOWEVER, ACTION OF IMMEDIATE
10:55:31:09    WITNESS NUMBER FIVE,
10:55:33:00    REINVIGORATING OUR YOUTH AND
10:55:34:25    YOUNG ADULT STRUCTURES AT THE
10:55:36:06    CONGREGATIONAL LEVEL DOES NOT,
10:55:37:27    BECAUSE IT IS NOT ABOUT PUBLIC
10:55:38:27    POLICY.
10:55:39:12    IT'S ABOUT WHAT WE NEED TO DO
10:55:41:00    OURSELVES.
10:55:42:03    THIS DOESN'T MAKE IT A BAD OR
10:55:43:18    A WRONG THING TO WANT TO DO.
10:55:45:04    IT'S JUST IN THE WRONG PLACE
10:55:46:07    ON OUR AGENDA.                                        77
10:55:47:15    DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
10:55:49:03    OKAY.
10:55:50:09    SO WE WILL NOT BE DISCUSSING
10:55:52:07    ACTION OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS
10:55:54:00    NUMBER FIVE IN THIS SESSION.
10:55:57:21    WHEN WE VOTE TO PLACE AN
10:55:59:10    ACTION OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS ON
10:56:00:18    THE AGENDA, WHAT WE'RE DOING
10:56:02:03    IS WE'RE ALLOCATING 20 MINUTES
10:56:04:10    OF OUR TIME IN THE FINAL
10:56:05:25    PLENARY ON SUNDAY TO DEBATE
10:56:07:18    AND VOTE ON THAT ITEM.
10:56:08:18    AS MAY YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED,
10:56:11:28    WE HAVE NOT JUST A FULL, BUT
10:56:13:03    AN AMAZINGLY OVER FULL AGENDA
10:56:14:21    THIS YEAR.
10:56:15:06    AND THIS BODY MAY WANT TO VOTE
10:56:17:07    TO EXTEND DEBATE FOR SOME OF
10:56:19:06    THE SUBSTANTIVE ITEMS ALREADY
10:56:21:09    ON THIS AFTERNOON'S AGENDA.
10:56:23:07    THE ONLY LARGE UNALLOCATED
10:56:26:21    TIME LEFT ON OUR AGENDA
10:56:28:01    TOGETHER IS SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
10:56:30:21    AND I AM REQUIRED TO PROVIDE
10:56:34:13    UP TO TWO HOURS, BECAUSE YOU
10:56:35:22    GET TO DECIDE HOW TO ALLOCATE
10:56:37:21    THAT TWO HOURS.
10:56:40:22    YOU MIGHT, THEN, CONSIDER FOR
10:56:42:06    EACH OF THESE ACTIONS OF
10:56:43:06    IMMEDIATE WITNESS NOT WITH THE
10:56:45:06    LENS OF WOULD IT BE COOL TO
10:56:46:16    TALK ABOUT THIS, BUT IS THIS
10:56:50:27    AT LEAST AS IMPORTANT AS THE
10:56:52:25    OTHER ITEMS WE MAY NEED TO
10:56:54:12    DISCUSS ON SUNDAY.
10:56:55:15    DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
10:56:57:09    THIS IS YOUR AGENDA TO DECIDE
10:56:59:16    WHAT IT IS WE WILL TALK ABOUT
10:57:01:12    ON SUNDAY THIS YEAR.
10:57:03:18    THE FIRST STEP IN THE
10:57:04:21    SCREENING PROCESS FOR ACTIONS
10:57:05:22    OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS IS A TWO
10:57:07:15    MINUTE PRESENTATION BY THE
10:57:09:03    SPONSOR OF EACH ACTION.
10:57:12:01    FOLLOWING THE PRESENTATION,
10:57:13:01    THERE WILL BE A VOTE TO
10:57:14:09    DETERMINE WHETHER THE PROPOSAL
10:57:15:21    ACTION OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS
10:57:17:15    WILL BE ADMITTED TO OUR
10:57:19:13    AGENDA.                                               78
10:57:20:10    THE MOTION TO ADMIT IS
10:57:21:18    NON-DEBATABLE.
10:57:22:15    I RECOGNIZE THE DELEGATE AT
10:57:23:21    THE PROCEDURAL MICROPHONE.
10:57:25:00    >> WELL NAME IS ROGER DAY.
10:57:26:28    I WAS A PROPOSER OF A SEVENTH
10:57:30:15    ACTION OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS.
10:57:31:27    I UNDERSTAND THERE WERE SEVEN
10:57:33:00    UNDER CONSIDERATION AND THAT
10:57:34:21    ONE HAD TO BE ELIMINATED BASED
10:57:37:12    ON IT'S PARENT MERITS, BECAUSE
10:57:40:21    THERE WERE TOO MANY.
10:57:42:03    IF THERE WAS ONE THAT WASN'T
10:57:43:24    PROPERLY CONSIDERABLE, MIGHT
10:57:48:00    IT BE REASONABLE TO REINSTATE
10:57:49:15    THAT SEVENTH ONE THAT WAS?
10:57:53:00    >> THE OPINION THAT I HAVE
10:57:55:04    FROM LEGAL COUNSEL AND THE
10:57:56:12    PARLIAMENTARIAN AND THE
10:57:57:18    COMMISSION IS NO.
10:57:58:18    >> THANK YOU.
10:57:59:00    >> THIS WAS JUST AN HONEST
10:58:00:04    MISTAKE WE MADE TOGETHER.
10:58:02:27    THANK YOU FOR ASKING.
10:58:05:25    READY?
10:58:06:25    SO, WILL THE SPONSOR OF THE
10:58:07:27    FIRST ACTION OF IMMEDIATE
10:58:08:21    WITNESS ON PAGE 2, OPPOSE
10:58:14:06    ANTI-IMMIGRANT MEASURES AT THE
10:58:15:21    STATE LEVEL AND HASTEN FEDERAL
10:58:17:12    IMMIGRATION REFORM, PLEASE
10:58:19:10    INTRODUCE HIM OR HERSELF AND
10:58:21:06    GIVE A TWO MEN STATEMENT?
10:58:24:13    >> I AM SANDY WEIR OF THE
10:58:27:12    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
10:58:28:06    CONGREGATION OF PHOENIX IN THE
10:58:32:16    TROUBLED STATE OF ARIZONA.
10:58:35:18    CRY THE BELOVED STATE,
10:58:37:16    ARIZONA.
10:58:40:18    A GROUP OF DELEGATES PROPOSED
10:58:43:06    AN ACTION OF IMMEDIATE
10:58:43:27    WITNESS, OR ACTIONS, ON
10:58:46:07    OPPOSING ANTI-IMMIGRANT
10:58:48:06    MEASURES.
10:58:50:09    THIS ACTION IS URGENT.
10:58:53:01    THE LAW WAS SIGNED JUST
10:58:55:00    APRIL 24TH AND IS SLATED TO GO
10:58:56:27    INTO EFFECT JULY 29TH.
10:58:59:22    THE ACTION IS FOCUSED AND
10:59:02:00    NARROW.                                               79
10:59:03:06    ONE LAW, ONE STATE.
10:59:06:13    YET THE ACTION CALLS US TO
10:59:08:21    HELP PRESENT COPY CAT LAWS NOW
10:59:11:10    PROPOSED.
10:59:14:06    THE ACTION DOES NOT FOCUS ON
10:59:16:12    FEDERAL COMPREHENSIVE
10:59:17:13    IMMIGRATION REFORM, BUT IT
10:59:19:27    DOES MENTION FEDERAL REFORM AS
10:59:22:27    THE POSITIVE MOVE FORWARD THAT
10:59:25:25    COULD CLOSE THE GAP INTO WHICH
10:59:28:24    RACIAL PROFILING, BULLYING,
10:59:30:18    AND PUNISHING IS FLOWING.
10:59:34:07    THE ACTION CALLS FOR OUR
10:59:37:27    CONGREGATIONS TO CONTINUE
10:59:40:28    THEIR PRECIOUS AID TO ARIZONA
10:59:44:03    IN SEVERAL WAYS.
10:59:46:15    AND FOR MONTHS IN OTHER
10:59:47:22    STATES, TO WORK AGAINST COPY
10:59:49:15    CAT LAWS AT HOME.
10:59:52:27    THE OBSERVATION IS GOOD.
10:59:54:28    COME TO THE MINI ASSEMBLY AT
10:59:57:03    ONE AND MAKE IT BETTER.
10:59:59:15    DELEGATES, READ THE ACTION.
11:00:02:16    VOTE FOR THE ACTION THIS
11:00:04:06    MORNING AND TOMORROW.
11:00:05:27    THEN ACT TO STAND ON THE SIDE
11:00:08:18    OF LOVE WITH IMMIGRANTS
11:00:10:16    THROUGHOUT THIS TROUBLED
11:00:12:18    NATION.
11:00:15:24    >> THANK YOU.
11:00:16:13     [ APPLAUSE ]
11:00:20:15    >> PLEASE FIND YOUR VOTING
11:00:22:00    CARDS.
11:00:23:28    ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF
11:00:25:06    ADMITTING THIS ACTION OF
11:00:26:27    IMMEDIATE WITNESS TO THE
11:00:28:06    SUNDAY AGENDA, PLEASE RAISE
11:00:29:12    YOUR VOTING CARDS.
11:00:32:15    THANK YOU.
11:00:33:00    ALL THOSE OPPOSED?
11:00:34:09    IT IS ADMITTED TO THE AGENDA.
11:00:36:04    THANK YOU.
11:00:36:07    WILL THE SPONSOR OF IMMEDIATE
11:00:43:13    WITNESS NUMBER TWO, FOUND ON
11:00:44:19    PAGE 4 OF YOUR AGENDA, END
11:00:46:27    BLOCKADE OF GAZA AND ISRAELI
11:00:51:01    SETTLEMENTS ON PALESTINIAN
11:00:52:07    TERRITORY, PLEASE INTRODUCE
11:00:53:12    YOURSELVES IF.
11:00:54:03    >> MADAM MODERATOR, GOOD                              80
11:00:56:00    MORNING.
11:00:56:12    MY NAME IS DAVID KEPPLE AND
11:00:59:01    I'M CHAIR OF THE JUSTICE PEACE
11:01:00:27    TASKFORCE OF THE UNITARIAN
11:01:01:15    UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF
11:01:03:12    BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA.
11:01:05:19    I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE
11:01:08:06    DELEGATES WHO SIGNED THE
11:01:10:24    PETITION TO BRING THIS
11:01:12:28    FORWARD.
11:01:14:01    I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE
11:01:16:03    COMMISSION ON SOCIAL WITNESS.
11:01:20:07    NOW IS THE THIRD YEAR WE HAVE
11:01:21:10    SUCCEEDED IN BRINGING AN
11:01:22:15    ACTION OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS ON
11:01:24:09    THE MIDDLE EAST.
11:01:26:06    I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU
11:01:27:22    DELEGATES TO ADVANCE THIS
11:01:30:03    ISSUE TO OUR FINAL AGENDA.
11:01:34:07    AND THEN, FELLOW DELEGATES,
11:01:36:15    LET US COVENANT THAT WE CAN
11:01:40:07    DISCUSS THIS ISSUE WITH
11:01:43:03    COURAGE AND ALSO WITH LOVE.
11:01:50:00    THIS ISSUE IS ACTUALLY  --
11:01:53:09    THIS ACTION OF IMMEDIATE
11:01:54:10    WITNESS IS ABOUT HOPE.
11:01:57:15    HOPE MAY NOT BE EXPLICIT
11:02:00:09    SUBJECT, BUT HOPE IS ITS
11:02:02:06    OBJECT.
11:02:04:06    THERE IS AN INCREASING
11:02:06:10    CONSENSUS AMONG MANY ISRAELIS
11:02:09:09    AND PALESTINIANS THAT PEACE IS
11:02:12:00    POSSIBLE, THAT IT IS POSSIBLE
11:02:14:27    FOR BOTH PALESTINIANS AND
11:02:17:00    ISRAELIS TO LIVE IN SECURITY
11:02:22:06    AND SOVEREIGNTY AND PEACE.
11:02:26:00    BUT WE HAVE TO KEEP HOPE
11:02:28:09    ALIVE, AND TO KEEP HOPE ALIVE,
11:02:32:19    WE HAVE TO STOP TWO TRENDS,
11:02:35:21    TWO ACTIONS CURRENTLY
11:02:36:27    UNDERWAY.
11:02:38:27    ONE IS THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA
11:02:40:28    AND THE OTHER IS THE GROWTH OF
11:02:42:27    ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS ON
11:02:45:06    PALESTINIAN TERRITORY.
11:02:47:06    WE WILL DISCUSS THIS MORE IF
11:02:48:28    YOU CHOOSE TO BRING IT TO THE
11:02:50:15    FINAL AGENDA.
11:02:52:09    BUT I WOULD POINT OUT THAT
11:02:54:16    THIS IS IMMEDIATE.                                    81
11:02:55:16    WE HAVE A PRESIDENT OF THE
11:02:56:24    UNITED STATES WHO WANTS TO
11:02:58:12    TAKE THE INITIATIVE ON THIS.
11:03:01:13    IF THE UNITED STATES IS
11:03:02:06    CENTRALLY INVOLVED AND IF WE,
11:03:04:06    AS UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS,
11:03:06:06    CAN BE PART OF A GROWING
11:03:07:22    DISCUSSION IN WHICH MORE
11:03:09:27    VOICES ARE HEARD, WE, AS THE
11:03:12:18    UUA, OR MEMBERS OF CHURCHES
11:03:15:12    FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE  --
11:03:16:24    >> THANK YOU.
11:03:21:01    WE'RE ALL GOOD.
11:03:22:06    THEY KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MOVING.
11:03:23:09    WE'RE ALL SET.
11:03:24:18    OKAY.
11:03:25:21    THANK YOU, MR. KEPPLE.
11:03:28:27    WILL THE PROPOSE HE GO OF
11:03:30:03    ACTION OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS
11:03:30:27    NUMBER THREE  -- OH, VOTE.
11:03:33:06    EVERYBODY STOP ME.
11:03:34:04    YOU WANT TO VOTE.
11:03:38:00    SORRY.
11:03:39:06    ALL THOSE  -- ALL RIGHT.
11:03:44:18    ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF
11:03:45:24    ADMITTING ACTION OF IMMEDIATE
11:03:47:03    WITNESS NUMBER TWO TO THE
11:03:48:00    AGENDA, PLEASE RAISE YOUR
11:03:49:10    VOTING CARDS.
11:03:52:21    THANKS.
11:03:53:03    ALL THOSE OPPOSED?
11:03:55:06    THAT WILL BE ON OUR AGENDA ON
11:03:56:28    SUNDAY.
11:03:57:07    THANK YOU.
11:03:58:09    THANK YOU.
11:03:58:24    TAKES A VILLAGE.
11:04:00:27    WILL THE PROPOSER OF ACTION OF
11:04:02:06    IMMEDIATE WITNESS NUMBER
11:04:03:10    THREE, GULF COAST
11:04:04:07    ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC
11:04:06:03    JUSTICE 2010?
11:04:10:27    >> MADAM MODERATOR, I'M
11:04:12:12    REVEREND DR. MARIE DE YOUNG,
11:04:15:13    AND I REPRESENT A VERY TINY
11:04:17:15    CONGREGATION IN GULF PORT,
11:04:18:27    MISSISSIPPI.
11:04:20:24    AS SMALL AS THE CHAPEL, THE
11:04:24:03    POTTER'S CHAPEL IN NEW JERSEY
11:04:25:15    AT THIS TIME IN HISTORY.
11:04:27:28    IT'S CALLED GULF POST                                 82
11:04:29:01    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
11:04:29:13    FELLOWSHIP.
11:04:31:09    I AM OFFERING UP THIS
11:04:32:27    RESOLUTION OF IMMEDIATE
11:04:34:03    WITNESS.
11:04:35:03    THE GULF COAST ENVIRONMENTAL
11:04:36:15    AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
11:04:37:24    RESOLUTION, BECAUSE I FEEL
11:04:40:03    THAT WE'RE GETTING LOST IN THE
11:04:42:00    CONVERSATION HERE.
11:04:43:22    I'VE SPENT ABOUT THREE YEARS
11:04:45:00    DOWN THERE HELPING WITH GULF
11:04:47:15    COAST RECOVERY AND I OWN A
11:04:49:06    HOME IN RURAL LOUISIANA.
11:04:51:27    THREE CONSTITUENCIES ARE BEING
11:04:54:06    PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHER:
11:04:55:09    SHRIMPERS AND FARMERS AND OIL
11:04:57:16    WORKERS, AND I COULD ADD A
11:04:59:12    FOURTH, ALL OF OUR
11:05:00:06    ENVIRONMENTALISTS.
11:05:01:21    AND I WOULD LIKE FOR OUR
11:05:02:15    DENOMINATION, OUR FAITH
11:05:03:22    COMMUNITY TO MAKE A DECISION
11:05:05:15    TO SPEAK TO THIS CRISIS AND TO
11:05:07:18    SPEAK WITH COMPASSION AND WITH
11:05:09:18    LOVE AND TO HELP OUR BROTHERS
11:05:11:22    AND SISTERS TO RISE ABOVE THE
11:05:13:27    DIFFERENCES, NOT TO PIT OUR
11:05:16:24    OIL WORKERS AGAINST OUR
11:05:18:03    ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND OUR
11:05:19:21    FAMILIES WHO HAVE LOST THEIR
11:05:20:21    SHRIMPING AND FISHING
11:05:22:03    INDUSTRIES.
11:05:22:18    TO SPEAK ABOUT THE NEED TO
11:05:23:15    CREATE GREEN JOBS, ALTERNATIVE
11:05:28:18    JOBS.
11:05:28:27    HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS
11:05:29:21    HAVE BEEN LOST, AND TO CREATE
11:05:31:19    GREEN HURRICANE SAFE
11:05:33:04    INFRASTRUCTURE ALONG ALL THOSE
11:05:36:00    COMMUNITIES.
11:05:37:00    SO I CAN SHORTEN THIS UP, IN
11:05:39:22    FACT.
11:05:40:10    I THINK YOU ALL HAVE THE GIST
11:05:43:03    IN THE INTEREST OF SAVING
11:05:44:00    TIME.
11:05:44:18    PLEASE PUT THIS ON THE BALLOT
11:05:47:12    SO THAT WE CAN DISCUSS IT AND
11:05:50:09    THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF
11:05:51:28    ALL THE COMMUNITIES ALONG THE                         83
11:05:53:22    GULF COAST OF THE UNITED
11:05:55:03    STATES.
11:05:56:06     [ APPLAUSE ]
11:05:56:27    >> THANK YOU.
11:06:01:07    ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF
11:06:01:27    ADMITTING ACTION OF IMMEDIATE
11:06:03:06    WITNESS NUMBER THREE, GULF
11:06:04:00    COAST ENVIRONMENTAL AND
11:06:05:25    ECONOMIC JUSTICE  -- YEAH, YOU
11:06:07:12    GOT IT.
11:06:07:21    OKAY?
11:06:08:24    THANKS.
11:06:09:09    ALL THOSE OPPOSED?
11:06:11:03    COOL.
11:06:11:13    WE'LL BE TAKING THAT UP ON
11:06:12:16    SUNDAY.
11:06:16:06    WILL THE SPONSOR OF ACTION OF
11:06:17:09    IMMEDIATE WITNESS NUMBER FOUR,
11:06:19:07    CLEAN UP THE CLEAN ENERGY
11:06:20:10    BILL, PLEASE COME TO  --
11:06:22:15    YOU'RE FAMILIAR.
11:06:22:27    GO AHEAD.
11:06:23:09    >> MADAM MODERATOR, MY NAME IS
11:06:26:13    DAVID KEPPLE, AND I AM A
11:06:29:06    MEMBER OF THE GREEN SANCTUARY
11:06:31:13    TASKFORCE ON GLOBAL CLIMATE
11:06:33:07    CHANGE.
11:06:34:15    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
11:06:36:27    OF BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA.
11:06:39:28    WE HAVE JUST ADMITTED TO THE
11:06:44:00    FINAL AGENDA AN ACTION OF
11:06:45:07    IMMEDIATE WITNESS TO DEAL WITH
11:06:46:15    THE CATASTROPHIC TRAGEDY ON
11:06:50:06    THE GULF COAST.
11:06:53:06    I HOPE ALL OF US ARE THINKING,
11:06:55:27    HOW CAN WE PREVENT THE NEXT
11:06:58:25    SUCH TRAGEDY?
11:07:02:18    WE HAVE TO STOP OFFSHORE OIL
11:07:05:00    DRILLING, BUT WE HAVE TO DO
11:07:06:06    MORE THAN THAT, BECAUSE IT MAY
11:07:07:06    NOT BE AN OIL DISASTER ONLY.
11:07:10:16    WE HAVE TO SEIZE UPON THIS
11:07:13:09    HISTORIC MOMENT TO CLEAN UP
11:07:16:24    OUR ENERGY ACT, AND THE FIRST
11:07:19:10    STEP IS TO CLEAN UP THE
11:07:21:21    SO-CALLED CLEAN ENERGY BILL
11:07:23:21    NOW BEFORE CONGRESS, BECAUSE
11:07:25:28    THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THERE IS
11:07:27:10    SUCH A BILL.
11:07:28:15    THE BAD NEWS IS THAT IT HAS                           84
11:07:30:21    MORE SUBSIDIES AND LIABILITY
11:07:33:13    LIMITATIONS FOR COAL, OIL, AND
11:07:36:00    NUCLEAR ENERGY THAN IT DOES
11:07:37:12    FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND
11:07:39:13    CONSERVATION.
11:07:42:01    AS I TALKED TO DELEGATES, I
11:07:44:24    KNOW THAT THERE IS A DIVERSITY
11:07:46:04    OF OPINION ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER
11:07:48:01    AMONG US AND I THINK IT'S
11:07:50:00    IMPORTANT THAT WE ALL
11:07:51:00    UNDERSTAND THAT THIS ACTION IS
11:07:54:12    AGNOSTIC ON NUCLEAR POWER.
11:07:57:03    IT IS SIMPLY SAYING THAT ANY
11:08:01:12    ENERGY SOURCE WHATSOEVER MUST
11:08:04:24    BEAR THE COST THAT IT MIGHT
11:08:07:01    IMPOSE UPON SOCIETY THROUGH
11:08:09:15    CATASTROPHIC ACTS.
11:08:13:16    THAT WAY THE RISK WILL BE
11:08:15:03    FACTORED INTO THE PRICE AND
11:08:16:27    SAFE SOURCES WILL BECOME, IN
11:08:18:28    THE FIR INSTANCE, RELATIVELY,
11:08:21:03    AND IN THE SECOND INSTANCE,
11:08:22:09    ABSOLUTELY CHEAPER.
11:08:24:13    SO FELLOW DELEGATES, I ASK
11:08:26:19    THAT YOUR SUPPORT.
11:08:27:27    >> THANK YOU.
11:08:30:18    I RECOGNIZED DELEGATE AT THE
11:08:32:04    PROCEDURAL MICROPHONE?
11:08:33:13    >> HI.
11:08:34:09    I'M MICHAEL RICHARDSON, FIRST
11:08:36:27    CONGRESSIONAL SOCIETY IN
11:08:39:07    BROOKLYN, AND I HAVE A
11:08:41:00    QUESTION.
11:08:41:12    I NOTICED THAT THE SPEAKER
11:08:42:09    CLOCK UP THERE, SOMETIMES IT
11:08:43:12    STARTS RUNNING WHEN THE
11:08:44:06    SPEAKER STARTS TALKING,
11:08:45:13    INTRODUCING THEMSELVES, AND
11:08:47:00    SOMETIMES IT STARTS RUNNING
11:08:48:06    AFTER THEY'VE INTRODUCED
11:08:49:24    THEMSELVES.
11:08:50:24    >> THANK YOU.
11:08:51:25    THANK YOU FOR RAISING THAT,
11:08:53:06    MICHAEL.
11:08:53:15    THAT WAS ACTUALLY WHAT I WAS
11:08:54:15    DISTRACTED BY.
11:08:55:27    UP UNTIL TODAY, WE'VE ALWAYS
11:08:58:16    BEEN STARTING IT PROMPTLY AS
11:09:00:12    THE PERSON STARTED WITH THEIR
11:09:01:09    INTRODUCTION.                                         85
11:09:02:21    THERE WAS A DIFFERENT
11:09:03:24    INSTRUCTION THAT WAS GIVEN TO
11:09:04:21    OUR TIMER AT THE START OF THIS
11:09:06:21    PIECE.
11:09:07:00    I DO NOT KNOW WHY.
11:09:08:12    AND SO WE CAUGHT THAT, BUT IN
11:09:10:10    THE INTEREST OF FAIRNESS, FOR
11:09:12:21    ALL OF THESE SPEAKERS ON
11:09:13:27    AIW'S, WE WILL TREAT THEM THE
11:09:16:13    SAME WAY, WHICH IS TO START
11:09:17:16    THE CLOCK RUNNING AFTER THEY
11:09:18:10    INTRODUCE THEMSELVES.
11:09:19:21    FOLLOWING THAT, WE WILL RETURN
11:09:23:01    TO THE RULES THAT WE ACTUALLY
11:09:24:01    SAY WE'RE FOLLOWING, WHICH IS
11:09:25:15    WE START THE CLOCK WHEN YOU
11:09:26:21    START SPEAKING.
11:09:27:12    YOU'RE RIGHT TO NOTICE A
11:09:28:13    DISCREPANCY.
11:09:29:22    THANK YOU.
11:09:30:00    >> ALL RIGHT.
11:09:30:18    ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF
11:09:32:15    ADMITTING ACTION OF IMMEDIATE
11:09:35:01    WITNESS NUMBER FOUR TO OUR
11:09:36:09    AGENDA ON SUNDAY, RAISE YOUR
11:09:37:18    VOTING CARDS.
11:09:38:18    THANK YOU.
11:09:42:22    ALL THOSE OPPOSED?
11:09:45:15    WE WILL BE DOING THIS ON
11:09:46:12    SUNDAY AS WELL.
11:09:47:13    AND NOW WILL THE PROPOSER OF
11:09:49:06    ACTION OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS
11:09:50:00    NUMBER SIX AND, HE KNOW THE
11:09:53:18    U.S. WAR IN PAKISTAN AND
11:09:55:04    AFGHANISTAN, PLEASE COME TO
11:09:56:06    THE MICROPHONE.
11:09:57:00    YES?
11:09:57:12    >> GOOD MORNING.
11:09:57:27    I'M RICK RHODES FROM THE
11:09:59:18    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
11:10:01:07    COMMUNITY CHURCH OF SANTA
11:10:02:06    MONICA, CALIFORNIA.
11:10:03:21    IN MAY, OUR CONGREGATION VOTED
11:10:06:00    OVERWHELMINGLY TO CALL FOR
11:10:09:18    IMMEDIATE CESSATION OF U.S.
11:10:11:06    COMBAT OPERATIONS IN
11:10:12:16    AFGHANISTAN AND PROMPT
11:10:14:15    WITHDRAWAL OF U.S. TROOPS AND
11:10:16:06    CONTRACTORS THAT SUPPORT THE
11:10:17:13    MILITARY.                                             86
11:10:18:22    MANY OF OUR MEMBERS WANTED TO
11:10:20:18    END THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN,
11:10:22:06    BECAUSE THEY OWE POSED ALL
11:10:23:21    WARS.
11:10:24:03    MANY OTHERS HAD TO STRUGGLE TO
11:10:26:04    COME TO GRIPS WITH HOW THEY
11:10:27:12    FELT ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR
11:10:28:15    WAR.
11:10:30:03    THEY FELT THAT PERHAPS THE
11:10:31:06    U.S. WAS IN AFGHANISTAN, MAYBE
11:10:32:28    TO SUPPRESS TERRORISTS OR TO
11:10:35:24    BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE, OR TO
11:10:38:04    FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, AND
11:10:40:04    ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
11:10:42:18    WE EXPOSED THE HORRENDOUS
11:10:44:12    RECORD ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS AS A
11:10:46:19    CORRUPT KARZAI REGIME AND ITS
11:10:49:15    WARLORD ALLIES.
11:10:50:24    WE TALKED ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE
11:10:53:13    HERE FALLING PART WITH NO
11:10:54:21    MONEY TO FIX IT.
11:10:57:27    WE SHOWED THE U.S. MILITARY
11:10:59:12    OPERATIONS WERE CREATING
11:11:00:16    TERRORISTS, NOT ENDING
11:11:02:00    TERRORISM, AND WE PRESENTED
11:11:03:15    EVIDENCE THAT THE U.S. GOAL
11:11:04:15    WAS PRIMARILY TO BUILD A
11:11:05:24    PIPELINE THROUGH AFGHANISTAN
11:11:08:07    TO TRANSPORTED NATURAL GAS
11:11:10:18    FROM CENTRAL ASIA TO THE GULF
11:11:12:18    OF OMAN WITHOUT, AS IS NOW THE
11:11:14:21    CASE, GOING THROUGH RUSSIA OR
11:11:16:01    IRAN.
11:11:17:27    MORE BROADLY, OUR GOVERNMENT
11:11:18:24    CEASE SECURING AFGHANISTAN AS
11:11:22:06    A KEY PART OF TRYING TO KEEP
11:11:23:19    THE RESOURCES OF THE MIDDLE
11:11:24:10    EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA UNDER
11:11:26:06    U.S. CONTROL AND OUT OF THE
11:11:28:12    HANDS OF COMPETING IMPERIAL
11:11:30:07    POWERS.
11:11:31:12    WE ASKED, IS IT ACCEPTABLE TO
11:11:33:18    KILL AND DIE FOR THAT GOAL
11:11:35:06    YEAR AFTER ENDLESS YEAR?
11:11:37:07    WE ASKED, DON'T WE HAVE A
11:11:38:15    SPECIAL OBLIGATION TO OPPOSE
11:11:40:06    UNJUST ACTS BY OUR OWN
11:11:41:22    GOVERNMENT, EVEN IF ITS
11:11:44:06    COMPETITORS ARE UNJUST?
11:11:45:24    I URGE YOU TO MAKE HISTORY BY                         87
11:11:47:19    VOTE TO GO BRING THIS
11:11:48:19    RESOLUTION TO THE PLENARY ON
11:11:49:25    SUNDAY AND PASSING IT THERE.
11:11:51:06    LET'S BECOME THE FIRST MAJOR
11:11:52:18    RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION TO CALL
11:11:54:00    FOR AN END TO THE U.S. WAR IN
11:11:56:07    PAKISTAN AND ITS EXTENSION  --
11:11:59:03    IN AFGHANISTAN, AND ITS
11:11:59:27    EXTENSION INTO PAKISTAN.
11:12:01:12    LET'S TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO
11:12:02:25    ONCE AGAIN MAKE UNITARIAN
11:12:03:22    UNIVERSALISM A  --
11:12:05:15    >> THANK YOU.
11:12:08:06    ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF
11:12:09:15    ADMITTING THIS ACTION OF
11:12:10:13    IMMEDIATE WITNESS TO THE
11:12:11:13    AGENDA ON SUNDAY, RAISE YOUR
11:12:13:09    VOTING CARDS.
11:12:17:12    DID I HAVE A PROCEDURAL
11:12:18:10    QUESTION BEFORE THAT?
11:12:20:06    OFFERING.
11:12:20:27    PUT THEM DOWN FOR A SECOND.
11:12:22:03    I WASN'T  -- GO AHEAD.
11:12:23:15    I RECOGNIZE THE DELEGATE AT
11:12:24:16    THE PROCEDURAL MICROPHONE.
11:12:25:24    >> YES.
11:12:26:21    REVERENDS KATE ROADY, FIRST
11:12:28:27    UNITARIAN, OMAHA.
11:12:29:27    I'M JUST A LITTLE PUZZLED.
11:12:31:16    NOT THAT I'M FOR OR AGAINST
11:12:32:15    THIS, BUT SINCE THE WAR HAS
11:12:34:03    BEEN GOING ON SINCE 2001, HOW
11:12:37:15    DOES THIS COME UNDER AN ACTION
11:12:38:19    OF IMMEDIATE WITNESS?
11:12:44:18    >> THAT'S A REALLY GOOD
11:12:45:25    QUESTION.
11:12:46:10    MR. MAY, COULD YOU JUST HIT IT
11:12:48:00    FROM THE AMENDMENT MICROPHONE,
11:12:50:15    IF YOU DON'T MIND?
11:12:51:06    >> YES.
11:12:51:24    THE COMMISSION ON SOCIAL
11:12:52:25    WITNESS LOOKED AT THAT
11:12:53:19    QUESTION AS WE DO WITH ALL OF
11:12:55:03    THEM AND THIS IS  -- IT'S AN
11:12:58:00    ONGOING WAR AND THE PROPOSAL
11:13:01:01    IS TO STOP IT AS SOON AS
11:13:02:21    POSSIBLE AND IT'S AN IMMEDIATE
11:13:04:24    QUESTION.
11:13:07:28    >> OKAY.
11:13:09:18    ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ADMIT                           88
11:13:11:15    THIS GO TO THE FINAL AGENDA?
11:13:14:07    IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH THAT
11:13:15:16    THOUGHT, YOU JUST WOULDN'T.
11:13:16:18    RIGHT?
11:13:18:24    THANK YOU.
11:13:19:06    ALL THOSE OPPOSED?
11:13:23:06    WE WILL BE DOING THAT ON
11:13:24:12    SUNDAY AS WELL.
11:13:25:03    THANK YOU.
11:13:26:01    I RECOGNIZE THE DELEGATE AT
11:13:27:24    THE PROCEDURAL MICROPHONE.
11:13:29:24    >> MY NAME IS FINLAY C.
11:13:31:25    CAMPBELL.
11:13:32:19    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
11:13:33:10    MULTI-RACIAL UNITY ACTION
11:13:35:03    CAUCUS.
11:13:35:27    I'VE BEEN EMPOWERED BY 30 PLUS
11:13:38:16    DELEGATES AND ATTENDINGS OF
11:13:40:18    THE GA TO ASK THE FOLLOWING
11:13:42:00    QUESTION:  IN LIGHT OF THE
11:13:43:06    UPCOMING AMENDMENT TO
11:13:45:07    ELIMINATE C-2.3 OF ARTICLE II
11:13:49:00    ON NONDISCRIMINATION, WHICH IN
11:13:51:25    OUR OPINION WILL ELIMINATE THE
11:13:53:21    ANTI-RACIAL SEGREGATION
11:13:55:12    PHRASES IN C-2.3, WE WOULD
11:14:00:06    LIKE TO KNOW, HOW WOULD WE SET
11:14:01:24    UP AN INFORMAL WORKSHOP TO
11:14:04:12    DISCUSS THIS ISSUE TODAY IN
11:14:07:19    MCC ROOM 1011 AT 1:00 P.M.?
11:14:17:16    >> WHY, REVEREND CAMPBELL, I
11:14:19:24    HAVE NO IDEA.
11:14:20:12     [ LAUGHTER ]
11:14:21:00    >> JUST GO THERE AND TAKE IT
11:14:24:01    OVER?
11:14:27:00    WE COULD DO THAT.
11:14:28:09    >> I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT
11:14:29:13    THAT THAT'S NOT ON THIS YEAR'S
11:14:30:21    AGENDA, THE ISSUE YOU'RE
11:14:32:09    RAISING.
11:14:32:21    IT'S A FUTURE LOOKING ITEM.
11:14:34:15    I'M ALL FOR PEOPLE TALKING
11:14:35:19    ABOUT FUTURE LOOKING ITEMS.
11:14:37:09    >> THAT'S RIGHT.
11:14:37:24    >> AND YOU ACTUALLY CAN'T
11:14:40:06    CLAIM A WORKSHOP SPACE IF
11:14:41:16    THERE'S A WORKSHOP IN THERE.
11:14:43:00    >> THERE'S NO WORKSHOP IN
11:14:44:12    THERE.
11:14:44:24    >> JUST  -- I'M GOING TO ASK                          89
11:14:50:06    YOU TO CONSULT WITH THE
11:14:51:24    GENERAL ASSEMBLY PLANNING
11:14:52:12    COMMITTEE.
11:14:53:00    >> WHERE ARE THEY?
11:14:53:10    >> THEY'RE THE FOLKS WHO
11:14:54:10    CONTROL THE ROOMS OTHER THAN
11:14:55:03    THIS ONE.
11:14:55:21    >> SURE.
11:14:56:09    WHERE ARE THEY?
11:14:56:18    >> WHO HAVE WE GOT?
11:14:59:03    I'VE GOT THE CHAIR ON THE
11:15:00:13    STAGE, SO GO HOOK UP.
11:15:03:21    THANK YOU.
11:15:04:00     [ LAUGHTER ]
11:15:04:15    >> I RECOGNIZE A DELEGATE  --
11:15:08:21    THAT WAS COOL.
11:15:09:12    I RECOGNIZE THE DELEGATE AT
11:15:10:18    THE PROCEDURAL MICROPHONE.
11:15:11:21    >> GINA WHITAKER FROM UU
11:15:14:15    FELLOWSHIP OF SAN LUIS OBISPO.
11:15:17:21    MADAM MODERATOR, I JUST
11:15:23:03    DISCUSSED THIS WITH DAVID MAY
11:15:24:06    AND JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE
11:15:25:13    THAT THE SCHEDULING FOR THE
11:15:30:09    DEBATE ON PHOENIX THIS
11:15:32:12    AFTERNOON NOT BE IN CONFLICT
11:15:35:21    WITH THE RECENTLY SCHEDULED
11:15:39:09    4:00 MEETING FOR
11:15:40:22    IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW
11:15:42:00    STUDY-ACTION ISSUE.
11:15:43:27    AND I JUST WANTED TO
11:15:47:19    RECOMMEND, HOPE, AND PRAY THAT
11:15:48:21    YOU WOULD HAVE THE DEBATE ON
11:15:49:27    PHOENIX EITHER AFTER 5:45 OR
11:15:53:28    BEFORE 4:00.
11:15:55:13    >> THANK YOU.
11:16:12:07    MR. MAY, WE'RE GOING TO NEED
11:16:13:21    TO MOVE YOUR WORKSHOP.
11:16:15:24    OKAY?
11:16:17:03    ALL RIGHT.
11:16:29:15    THANK YOU, MATCH.
11:16:30:15    SO WE'LL TRY FOR ANOTHER
11:16:31:12    WORKSHOP SLOT, BUT THAT'S
11:16:36:00    PRECISELY WHEN WE WILL BE
11:16:37:00    DEBATING AND VOTING ON THAT
11:16:38:24    BIDS RESOLUTION.
11:16:40:16    GOOD JOB, JEANNE WHITAKER.
11:16:42:21    I RECOGNIZE THE DELEGATE AT
11:16:43:24    THE PROCEDURAL MICROPHONE.
11:16:46:01    YES?                                                  90
11:16:46:21    >> HI.
11:16:47:12    JUST A QUESTION.
11:16:50:10    I'M MARSHAL WOLENSKY FROM
11:16:53:12    FIRST MAYOR ITCH IN
11:16:54:06    MASSACHUSETTS.
11:16:55:00    I'D JUST LIKE TO QUESTION THAT
11:16:57:00    THE CORRECT DESIGNATION IS
11:16:58:21    ACTUALLY 101I, NOT 1011.
11:17:01:19    IS THAT CORRECT?
11:17:03:12    >> YES.
11:17:05:09    >> THANK YOU.
11:17:06:12    >> WE DON'T HAVE A TENTH FLOOR
11:17:07:27    IN THE CONVENTION CENTER.
11:17:11:03    THAT IS CORRECT.
11:17:13:03    LET'S SEE IF WE CAN ACTUALLY
11:17:14:16    TAKE UP AN ITEM OF BUSINESS
11:17:16:15    REALLY QUICKLY.
11:17:21:03    WE'RE GOING TO TRY ONE AND
11:17:23:01    THEN I'M GOING TO LOOK IN A
11:17:24:12    MOTION FROM THE CHAIR OF THE
11:17:25:18    GA PLANNING COMMITTEE, SO WHAT
11:17:27:25    WE'RE GOING TO DO, THE NEXT
11:17:29:12    ITEM OF BUSINESS BEFORE US IS
11:17:31:15    TO ACT UPON PROPOSED
11:17:34:06    AMENDMENTS TO RULE G-9.12.6
11:17:39:27    REGARDING DISTRIBUTION OF
11:17:40:21    CANDIDATE INFORMATION.
11:17:43:00    SUCH INFORMATION BE MADE
11:17:44:13    AVAILABILITY ELECTRONICALLY
11:17:45:16    RATHER THAN AN
11:17:46:24    EIGHT-AND-A-HALF BY 11 PIECE
11:17:48:09    OF PAPER.
11:17:49:03    IT'S FOUND ON PAGE 2769 FINAL
11:17:50:19    AGENDA.
11:17:51:18    WILL THE CHAIR OF THE GENERAL
11:17:53:12    ASSEMBLY PLANNING COMMITTEE
11:17:54:12    PLEASE BRING THE APPROPRIATE
11:17:55:18    MOTION BEFORE THIS BODY?
11:18:01:12    >> MOVE THAT RULE G-9.12.6 BE
11:18:05:21    AMENDED AS SHOWN ON PAGE 27 OF
11:18:08:15    THE FINAL AGENDA.
11:18:10:28    NO AMENDMENTS WERE MADE IN
11:18:12:15    MINI-ASSEMBLY.
11:18:19:04    >> DOES THE BOARD WANT TO MAKE
11:18:20:18    A STATEMENT ON THIS?
11:18:23:18    DOES ANYBODY WANT TO DEBATE
11:18:25:13    THIS FIRST?
11:18:26:04    LET ME JUST SEE.
11:18:27:06    LET'S JUST SKIP THE WHOLE
11:18:30:00    THING.                                                91
11:18:30:18    IT'S KIND OF OBVIOUS, ISN'T
11:18:31:22    IT?
11:18:32:07    ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, THEN, OF
11:18:34:00    THIS AMENDMENT TO RULE
11:18:35:24    G-9.12.6, RAISE YOUR VOTING
11:18:38:15    CARDS.
11:18:43:00    THANK YOU, ALL THOSE OPPOSED?
11:18:44:06    OKAY.
11:18:44:13    WE JUST LET A UUA TRUSTEE OFF
11:18:47:12    THE HOOK WHO HAD A CAREFULLY
11:18:48:27    PREPARED STATEMENT, SO LET'S
11:18:50:09    GIVE HER A ROUND OF APPLAUSE.
11:18:53:16     [ APPLAUSE ]
11:18:56:00    >> AND I WANT TO TELL YOU WHY
11:18:57:06    WE'RE REALLY GOING TO GET OUT
11:18:58:03    OF HERE ON TIME IS BECAUSE WE
11:18:59:28    HAVE A SPECIFIC WINDOW OF TIME
11:19:01:15    FOR OUR PUBLIC ACTION THAT WE
11:19:03:24    HAVE THE STAGE AND WE WANT TO
11:19:04:24    BE THERE FOR IT.
11:19:06:00    OKAY.
11:19:06:16    SO I'M GOING TO GO TO THE
11:19:08:01    REPORT OF THE RIGHT
11:19:08:22    RELATIONSHIP TEAM.
11:19:12:03    PLEASE BECOME, YOU SAW HIM
11:19:17:15    LAST IN THE SERVICE OF THE
11:19:18:15    LIVING TRADITION RECEIVING
11:19:19:21    PRELIMINARY FELLOWSHIP,
11:19:20:24    BRANDON SCOTT MCNEILL.
11:19:23:07     [ APPLAUSE ]
11:19:29:24    >> GOOD DAY SO FAR.
11:19:30:28    RIGHT?
11:19:32:07    WE CAN CONTINUE THIS.
11:19:34:03    MY NAME IS SCOTT AND I'M
11:19:35:12    PRIVILEGED TO SPEAK TO YOU
11:19:36:15    JUST FOR A MOMENT WITH SOME
11:19:39:01    HELP FROM GARNER TAKAHASHI
11:19:40:06    MORRIS, WHO'S BEEN DOING A
11:19:42:06    GREAT JOB.
11:19:44:15    I RECALL FROM THE SERVICE OF
11:19:45:10    THE LIVING TRADITION PAIGE
11:19:47:18    GETTY'S WORDS THAT WE ARE
11:19:50:03    CALLED TO BE OPEN TO BEING
11:19:53:06    SLIGHTLY UNCOMFORTABLE AND TO
11:19:55:06    GETTING TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER
11:19:56:18    FROM A VERY REAL PERSPECTIVE.
11:20:00:09    WITH THAT, THERE HAVE BEEN A
11:20:01:18    FEW INCIDENTS THAT WE HAVE
11:20:03:04    HEARD ABOUT ON THE TEAM.
11:20:04:10    MAYBE YOU'VE EXPERIENCED THEM,                        92
11:20:06:27    OF HAVING TO JUSTIFY YOUR
11:20:08:27    IDENTITY, HAVING PEOPLE EXPECT
11:20:12:00    THAT IF YOU ARE A YOUNG ADULT
11:20:14:18    OR IF YOU ARE DISABLED, IF YOU
11:20:17:16    ARE TRANSGENDERED, WHATEVER
11:20:19:12    THE CASE, THAT YOU POSSIBLY
11:20:22:03    SPEAK FOR EVERY YOUNG ADULT OR
11:20:24:21    FOR EVERY TRANSGENDERED
11:20:26:18    PERSON.
11:20:28:09    AND THAT MAKES SOME SENSE.
11:20:29:25    IT'S EASY TO TALL INTO COMFORT
11:20:31:27    AND EXPECT THAT MY POINT OF
11:20:34:00    VIEW IS THE SAME AS EVERYONE
11:20:35:25    ELSE'S POINT OF VIEW.
11:20:38:09    BUT THE TEAM REALLY HOPES THAT
11:20:40:10    WE CAN TAKE A MOMENT, STOP TO
11:20:44:12    BREATHE AND TO LISTEN TO ONE
11:20:46:15    ANOTHER AS AN INDIVIDUAL.
11:20:51:00    ONE GOOD STORY OF THIS CAME
11:20:52:27    EARLIER THIS WEEK WHERE
11:20:54:06    SOMEONE SAID  -- I TALKED TO
11:20:56:21    SOMEONE WHO WAS VERY EDUCATED
11:20:58:03    OR VERY WELL SPOKEN AND I
11:20:59:12    ASKED WHERE SHE WENT TO
11:21:00:10    SCHOOL.
11:21:01:18    THE PERSON WAS A LITTLE BIT
11:21:03:12    ASHAMED, LOOKED DOWN AND SAID,
11:21:04:24    I DIDN'T GO TO COLLEGE.
11:21:07:16    THEY RECOGNIZED IN THAT MOMENT
11:21:09:21    THE ASSUMPTIONS BEHIND WHAT WE
11:21:11:27    COME TO EVERY CONVERSATION
11:21:13:10    WITH.
11:21:15:00    SO I ASK THAT WE IN THE
11:21:17:15    GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND
11:21:18:21    PARTICULARLY AT OUR PRIDE
11:21:20:01    RALLY, AT THE TRANS MARCH
11:21:24:15    LATER THIS AFTERNOON, ALL OF
11:21:25:15    THESE EXPERIENCED STOP AND
11:21:26:22    TAKE A MOMENT TO HEAR ONE
11:21:28:03    ANOTHER FOR WHO THEY ARE, TO
11:21:30:12    SEE ONE ANOTHER JUST AS WE
11:21:32:06    WOULD LOVE TO BE SEEN.
11:21:33:28    THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL OF
11:21:35:09    YOUR HARD WORK.
11:21:36:18     [ APPLAUSE ]
11:21:37:03    >> OKAY.
11:21:43:18    WE'RE GOING TO TRY ONE MORE.
11:21:44:24    THE CHAIR OF THE GA PLANNING
11:21:46:03    COMMITTEE INFORMS ME THAT ALL
11:21:47:04    OF THE BUSINESS ITEMS HAD NO                          93
11:21:48:19    AMENDMENTS, SO LET'S TRY THE
11:21:50:03    NEXT ONE IF WE COULD.
11:21:51:24    OKAY?
11:21:52:27    IF WE FIND WE NEED TO DISCUSS
11:21:54:09    IT, THEN WE'LL THROW IT OVER
11:21:55:13    THE WALL UNTIL SUNDAY.
11:21:56:21    SO WE ARE NOW READY TO
11:21:57:27    CONSIDER AN ACT UPON PROPOSED
11:21:59:15    AMENDMENTS TO BYLAW SECTIONS
11:22:01:06    4.11, 4.12, 4.14, 5.7, 15.1,
11:22:06:03    AND RULES G-4.12.2, 4.18.1,
11:22:13:15    4.18.3, AND 4.19.1.
11:22:18:06    THESE AMENDMENTS TOGETHER
11:22:19:18    ASSIGN RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
11:22:21:10    AGENDA FOR THIS GENERAL
11:22:22:16    ASSEMBLY TO THE UUA BOARD.
11:22:24:27    THE TEXT OF THE AMENDMENTS MAY
11:22:26:00    BE FOUND ON PAGES 28 THROUGH
11:22:27:21    31 OF THE FINAL AGENDA.
11:22:29:15    WILL THE CHAIR OF THE PLANNING
11:22:30:21    COMMITTEE PLEASE MAKE THE
11:22:31:18    APPROPRIATE MOTION?
11:22:33:00    >> WHAT SHE JUST SAID.
11:22:36:03    MOVE THAT THE BYLAW SECTIONS
11:22:37:24    AS ANNOUNCED BY THE MODERATOR
11:22:41:04    AS FOUND ON PAGES 28 AND 31 OF
11:22:44:21    THE FINAL AGENDA BE MOVED.
11:22:51:27    >> SO IF YOU'RE SOMEBODY WHO
11:22:53:03    WOULD WANT TO DISCUSS THIS,
11:22:54:24    COME TO A PRO OR CON MIKE NOW.
11:22:56:19    SO I HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT WE
11:22:57:27    WANT TO DO.
11:23:00:12    PROCEDURAL?
11:23:01:06    YES, MA'AM.
11:23:01:21    >> I'M SORRY.
11:23:02:16    ARE WE VOTING ON A BODY OF
11:23:04:15    THINGS OR ONE AT A TIME?
11:23:05:24    >> NO, NO, NO.
11:23:06:24    ALL OF THEM TOGETHER.
11:23:07:25    >> THANK YOU.
11:23:08:01    >> THAT'S HOW THEY WERE PLACED
11:23:09:18    ON THE AGENDA.
11:23:10:18    >> HOLLY PETERSON, FIRST
11:23:12:18    UNITARIAN SOCIETY OF
11:23:13:19    MINNEAPOLIS.
11:23:14:04    >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:23:16:09    ANOTHER PROCEDURAL QUESTION.
11:23:17:21    YES, MA'AM?
11:23:17:27    >> I'M KATHY PARMENTERE FROM
11:23:20:27    THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST                            94
11:23:21:24    CHURCH OF PALO ALTO,
11:23:23:28    CALIFORNIA.
11:23:24:16    AS THE MOTION WAS READ AND AS
11:23:25:21    IT PRINTED FORWARD, IT SAID AS
11:23:28:00    SHOWN ON PAGE 28 AND 31.
11:23:30:19    I THINK IT MEANT 28 THROUGH
11:23:32:09    31.
11:23:32:24    >> THROUGH 31.
11:23:34:03    >> YES.
11:23:35:21    28 THROUGH 31 OF THE FINAL
11:23:36:25    AGENDA.
11:23:40:00    YES, MA'AM?
11:23:41:03    >> HELENE [INAUDIBLE]
11:23:42:27    ARLINGTON STREET CHURCH,
11:23:44:13    BOSTON.
11:23:45:01    IF THERE IS NO PRO OR CON, I
11:23:48:09    WANT TO BE SURE THAT THERE IS,
11:23:49:09    BECAUSE I REALLY DO NOT
11:23:50:06    UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE MAKING
11:23:51:15    THIS CHANGE AT ALL FROM, YOU
11:23:53:22    KNOW, TO THE BOARD INSTEAD OF
11:23:55:09    THE OTHER.
11:23:55:27    >> I'D LIKE THE STATEMENT OF
11:23:57:00    THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, PLEASE.
11:24:07:13    AND THAT WILL EITHER MAKE US
11:24:08:16    WANTS TO TALK OR IT WILL
11:24:10:00    SUFFICE AND WE'LL KNOW WHAT
11:24:11:06    WE'RE DOING.
11:24:11:27    YES.
11:24:12:06    I RECOGNIZE WOODRIDGE SPEAKING
11:24:17:12    FOR THE UUA BOARD.
11:24:18:21    >> YES.
11:24:18:27    I'M CHUCK WOODRIDGE, TRUSTEE
11:24:22:06    FROM THE JOSEPH PRIESTLY
11:24:23:18    DISTRICT.
11:24:23:27    THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES SUPPORTS
11:24:25:10    THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO BRING
11:24:26:19    CHARITY AND CONSISTENCY IN OUR
11:24:29:15    BYLAWS IN TERMS OF THE BOARD'S
11:24:30:27    GOVERNANCE ROLE.
11:24:32:03    IN THIS GOVERNANCE ROLE, THE
11:24:33:25    BOARD OF TRUSTEES HAS THE
11:24:35:15    RESPONSIBILITY FOR SETTING THE
11:24:37:06    AGENDA OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
11:24:39:00    GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS OUR
11:24:40:01    PRIMARY AND FORMAL ANNUAL
11:24:42:18    LINKAGE OF THE BOARD TO MEMBER
11:24:44:09    CONGREGATIONS.
11:24:45:24    IN CONTRAST, THE GENERAL
11:24:47:13    ASSEMBLY PLANNING COMMITTEE IS                        95
11:24:49:03    RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING
11:24:50:12    ARRANGEMENTS AND LOGISTICS FOR
11:24:53:06    GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND OTHER
11:24:54:25    PROGRAMS AND MEETINGS HELD IN
11:24:56:21    CONNECTION WITH GENERAL
11:24:57:18    ASSEMBLY.
11:24:59:06    WE RECOMMEND ADOPTION OF THIS
11:25:00:12    MOTION TO AMEND THE BYLAWS, TO
11:25:03:00    ACCURATELY REFLECT THE CURRENT
11:25:05:12    ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF
11:25:07:00    THE BOARD AND THE GA PLANNING
11:25:08:22    COMMITTEE.
11:25:12:00    >> MAKE SENSE?
11:25:15:19    ARE YOU READY TO VOTE?
11:25:18:00    >> YES!
11:25:18:21    >> ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, RAISE
11:25:20:06    YOUR VOTING CARDS.
11:25:23:22    THANK YOU.
11:25:24:03    ALL THOSE OPPOSED?
11:25:25:06    THE MOTION CLEARLY CARRIES.
11:25:28:07    THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:25:29:06    OKAY.
11:25:29:12    I'M GOING TO LOOK TO THE CHAIR
11:25:31:09    OF THE GA PLANNING COMMITTEE
11:25:32:09    FOR A MOTION TO HELP US RESET
11:25:33:25    OUR AGENDA.
11:25:34:21    >> BETH MCGREGOR.
11:25:36:00    IN ORDER THAT WE MAY BE ON
11:25:37:00    TIME TO STAND ON THE SIDE OF
11:25:39:04    LOVE, I MOVE THAT THE
11:25:40:22    REMAINING ITEMS ON THE AGENDA
11:25:45:06    OF TODAY'S PLENARY FOUR BE
11:25:47:07    MOVED FOR CONSIDERATION IN
11:25:49:15    PLENARY SIX ON SUNDAY MORNING.
11:25:53:21    >> UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE
11:25:54:24    DOING?
11:25:56:03    WE'RE MOVING TO SUNDAY, SO IT
11:25:57:28    DOESN'T MESS UP THIS
11:25:59:07    AFTERNOON.
11:25:59:16    MAKE SENSE?
11:26:01:09    ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR
11:26:02:15    VOTING CARDS.
11:26:05:16    ALL THOSE OPPOSED?
11:26:08:06    THE MOTION CLEARLY CARRIES.
11:26:10:00    THANK YOU FOR HELPING MAKE
11:26:10:28    THIS HAPPEN.
11:26:11:27    I RECOGNIZED DELEGATE AT THE
11:26:13:21    PROCEDURAL MICROPHONE.
11:26:14:15    >> MADAM MODERATOR, JANUARY
11:26:16:15    EARLIER ISAACS FROM UNITARIAN                         96
11:26:18:16    UNIVERSALIST CHURCH IN ST.
11:26:19:21    PAUL, MINNESOTA.
11:26:20:21    I'D LIKE A POINT OF PERSONAL
11:26:22:03    PRIVILEGE.
11:26:22:15    LAST WEEKEND ROB, MY HUSBAND,
11:26:24:28    AND I MARRIED THIS BEAUTIFUL
11:26:26:24    COUPLE, BUT THE STATE OF
11:26:28:21    MINNESOTA DOES NOT LEGALLY
11:26:30:04    RECOGNIZE THEIR MARRIAGE.
11:26:34:00    LAST SUMMER I TRAVELED WITH
11:26:36:21    NINE EQUALLY BEAUTIFUL COUPLES
11:26:38:12    TO DES MOINES, IOWA, AS A
11:26:41:00    WEDDING DESTINATION.
11:26:43:01     [ APPLAUSE ]
11:26:43:10    >> ON THE WAY BACK, IN THE
11:26:46:15    MIDDLE OF A CORN FIELD, THEIR
11:26:50:01    MARRIAGE RIGHTS DISAPPEARED.
11:26:51:27    WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THIS,
11:26:54:12    MADAM MODERATOR?
11:26:59:01    >> YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T RESOLVE
11:27:00:21    THIS IN PLENARY HALL.
11:27:03:00    TO CHANGE THE WORLD, WE HAVE
11:27:04:22    TO STAND WITH OUR INTERFAITH
11:27:07:03    PARTNERS PUBLICLY AND PROUDLY.
11:27:08:24    AS PART OF OR CONTINUING
11:27:10:13    BUSINESS, WE'RE GOING TO NEED
11:27:11:24    TO TAKE THIS TO THE STREETS.
11:27:16:10    [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
11:27:16:22    >> OH, MY GOSH.
11:27:27:00    WHAT IS THAT?
11:27:29:21    IT APPEARS, Y'ALL, THAT YOUR
11:27:32:03    CHARIOT IS ARRIVING.
11:27:36:04    >> SO HERE'S WHAT WE'RE GOING
11:27:48:03    TO DO.
11:27:48:15    WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A
11:27:49:06    RECESSIONAL FROM THIS PLENARY.
11:27:52:07    WE'RE GOING TO EXIT OUT THE
11:27:54:24    DOOR IN THE REAR.
11:27:55:24    DON'T GET IN THE WAY FIRST.
11:27:57:04    LET'S LET THE CHARIOT GO BY.
11:28:00:06    THE BOARD, THEN, UP HERE IS
11:28:01:15    GOING TO SWING IN BEHIND THEM
11:28:03:01    WEARING THEIR STANDING ON THE
11:28:04:09    SIDE OF LOVE T-SHIRTS.
11:28:06:03    WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW YOUR
11:28:07:10    BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
11:28:08:04    WHERE IS YOUR BOARD OVER HERE?
11:28:11:09    WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW THESE
11:28:12:24    BEAUTIFUL BRIDES, YOUR BOARD
11:28:14:07    OF TRUSTEES, YOUR PRESIDENT,                          97
11:28:16:21    OUR STAFF, WE'RE GOING TO GO
11:28:19:16    STAND ON THE SIDE OF LOVE.
11:28:20:21    ONCE OUTSIDE THE DOOR, WE'LL
11:28:21:27    TAKE A LEFT AND WALK ONLY
11:28:23:06    THREE SHORT BLOCKS TO LORING
11:28:27:00    PARK WHERE WE'RE GOING TO
11:28:28:00    WITNESS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY
11:28:28:27    IN MINNESOTA.
11:28:32:18    YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT LOVE ALL
11:28:34:06    MORNING.
11:28:34:18    WE'RE GOING TO TAKE OUR LOVE
11:28:35:24    TO THE STREETS FOR PEOPLE WHO
11:28:37:22    NEED HELP GETTING TO THE PARK,
11:28:39:27    TURN RIGHT OUTSIDE PLENARY
11:28:41:27    HALL AND A BUS IS THERE
11:28:43:01    WAITING TO TAKE YOU TO THE
11:28:44:10    PARK.
11:28:45:00    IT WILL CIRCULATE BEFORE,
11:28:46:24    DURING, AND AFTER THE PUBLIC
11:28:48:09    WITNESSES EVENT.
11:28:49:25    PRIDE FEST IS JUST BEGINNING
11:28:51:10    IN THE PARK.
11:28:52:00    THERE'S FOOD FROM ALL OVER THE
11:28:53:03    WORLD WITH PLENTY OF VEGGIE
11:28:54:27    AND VEGAN OPTIONS AND A KIDS'
11:28:57:16    AREA WITH VENDORS, AND WE WILL
11:28:58:27    BE SELLING STANDING ON THE
11:29:00:03    SIDE OF LOVE T-SHIRTS.
11:29:01:09    GET YOUR LOVE NOW!
11:29:04:04    TAKE YOUR LOVE NOW!
11:29:06:21    I HAD DECLARE THAT THIS
11:29:08:09    PLENARY SESSION STANDS IN
11:29:09:13    RECESSION UNTIL THIS AFTERNOON
11:29:12:09    FOR PLENARY FIVE.
11:29:14:15    GO LOVE.
11:29:16:00    TAKE LOVE.
11:29:16:19    BE LOVE.

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