Election-Year Resources Available From UUA
July 15, 2008
The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has two resources to help congregations engage in nonpartisan electoral activities this year. Rob Keithan, director of the Association’s Washington Office for Advocacy, notes, “The IRS places certain restrictions on what congregations can do, and those boundaries need to be respected. However, there is a wide range of totally acceptable activities, and I sincerely hope that many congregations will choose to get involved. These two resources should help.”
- Updated version of The Real Rules: Congregations and IRS Guidelines on Advocacy, Lobbying, and Elections. Includes the latest information on what congregations can and cannot do. Find The Real Rules online.
- Election-year resources and opportunities from Faithful Democracy. Faithful Democracy is a nonpartisan online clearinghouse made up of national faith-based organizations. Its goal is to educate and engage people of faith about the role they can and should play in the democratic process, thus increasing the number of informed faith-based voters in elections.
The Faithful Democracy website includes information about what religious groups can do and how they can do it, in areas that include voter registration, education, mobilization, and poll monitoring. The site also features theological reflections from a variety of religious leaders on the connections between civic participation and religious values. The Unitarian Universalist Association helped to found Faithful Democracy in 2004 and remains an active participant.
For more information contact interconnections @ uua.org.
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Last updated on Wednesday, September 14, 2011.
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