WHEREAS, the bigotry and misinformation presented by the forces of the "Save Our Children" movement led by Anita Bryant encourage violations of the civil rights of gay people; and WHEREAS, human rights are not an issue on which there should be a vote by which the majority can deny rights to a...

WHEREAS, currently there are efforts being made to insert the creation story of Genesis into public school science textbooks; and WHEREAS, such action would be in direct contradiction with the separation of church and state; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1977 General Assembly of the Unitaria...

WHEREAS, since March 4, 1977, several states, including Florida, Illinois, Georgia, and Arizona, have considered and not passed the Equal Rights Amendment; and WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation Board reaffirmed at the June, 1977 meeting their resolve to meet only in those sta...

WHEREAS, an amendment to the United States Constitution to provide equal rights for women has been ratified by thirty-five states; and WHEREAS, there remain fifteen states which have not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment and three affirmative decisions by states are necessary by March 22, 1979 ...

WHEREAS, two full years have passed since the end of the war in Indochina without the offering of one dollar or one tool in US reconstruction aid, and in addition the new President of the United States has explicitly stated that we "have no responsibility for reparations" (March 24, 1977), and th...

WHEREAS, we recognize the integrity of our environment, both physical and social, and our need to respect the interdependence of ecological spheres and social activities; and WHEREAS, the continued pollution of our environment, the continued depletion of our natural resources, and the continued...

WHEREAS, there are millions of persons in the United States and Canada who are blind, deaf, physically or mentally disabled, or otherwise with special needs; and WHEREAS, these people suffer from discrimination and segregation in education, employment, transportation, and freedom of access becaus...

WHEREAS, our world lives under threat of nuclear holocaust; and WHEREAS, nuclear proliferation increases the danger of nuclear holocaust; and WHEREAS, SALT results are presently unsatisfactory; and WHEREAS, United States military security is not jeopardized by the proposed independent initiatives...

WHEREAS, the Commission on Appraisal has studied the representative nature of the General Assembly; and WHEREAS, we ourselves wholeheartedly wish to put into practice in our meetings what we have urged upon others regarding full inclusion with dignity of handicapped persons and the elderly; and...

WHEREAS, millions of people may die in the next few years because of inadequate world grain reserves; and drought and other causes have rendered grain production unstable, which drives prices up and forces poorer countries out of the world grain market; and WHEREAS, it has been demonstrated that...

WHEREAS, a principle of the Unitarian Universalist Association is to "affirm, defend, and promote the supreme worth and dignity of every human personality, and the use of the democratic method in human relationships"; and WHEREAS, great strides have been taken to affirm this principle within our...

Because of our concern for freedom of conscience and the respect which should be accorded all persons at time of death, and because of our belief that people should be able to choose under fair and informed circumstances funeral arrangements which are in accord with their own personal, financial,...

WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association has supported the right of farm workers to organize into a union for the purposes of collective bargaining with their employers, and has specifically supported the nonviolent efforts of the United Farm Workers of America; and WHEREAS, the ten-year...

WHEREAS, since World War II, the United States has spent $1.3 trillion and misdirected its industrial capacity to remain number one among nations in military power; and WHEREAS, during these same years the United States has not reached its potential in meeting many of the most vital human needs o...

WHEREAS, safe air to breathe and safe water to drink are essential to life; BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1976 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association strongly urges that the federal Environmental Protection Agency adopt promptly standards and regulations that will minimize the...

WHEREAS, it has become public knowledge, as a result of investigative journalism and of subsequent Congressional hearings, that government agencies including the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the Internal Revenue Service have indulged in illegal activities or the misuse of otherwis...

WHEREAS, Senate Bill #1, the Criminal Justice Reform Act of 1975, in attempting to reform the outdated US Criminal Code, has presented us with an unparalleled threat to individual liberties, especially in disregard of the First Amendment; and WHEREAS, the bill is a massive, complicated measure so...

WHEREAS, recently the Justice Department of the United States, at the direct urging of President Ford, first considered, then rejected a plan to intervene actively to limit school busing, one of the few substantive remedies ever put into effect to combat school segregation; and WHEREAS, this has...

WHEREAS, Dennis Banks is acknowledged by many Native Americans to be a militant leader in the struggle for justice in the cause of Native American rights; and WHEREAS, Dennis Banks has fled from convictions on a charge of riot and a charge of assault stemming from his involvement in an incident i...

WHEREAS, women in the middle years and older are confronted by the double discrimination of ageism and sexism, and feel the negative effects of age discrimination at an earlier age than men, so there is a double standard of Agriculture in our society; WHEREAS, women live longer than men, and wome...