Open Membership Policy II

1965 Business Resolution

RESOLVED: That this General Assembly instruct the Board of Trustees to place on the Agenda for the 1966 General Assembly a proposed amendment to Article II of the Constitution which will add a new section substantially in the form of Item 7F, which was adopted yesterday, and which reads as follows:

In accordance with the purposes and objectives of the Unitarian Universalist Association, this Association and its members hereby declare and affirm their special responsibility to promote the full participation of persons, without regard to race, color, sex, or national origin, in the Association, in member churches and fellowships, in associate members, in the ministry and in society and to invite the full participation of all persons without any creedal test whatsoever; and

That this General Assembly recommend to the General Assembly to be held in 1967 the adoption of the proposed amendment, with the further understanding that versions of the above, both including and not including the matter of "creedal tests whatsoever," be submitted to the Assembly in 1966.