IN VIEW OF, the widespread and serious problem of pollution of our land, air and water; IN VIEW OF, the rapid depletion of many of our non-renewable natural resources and the dangerous exploitation of our renewable resources; and IN VIEW OF, the declining quality of life in our towns and cities w...

BELIEVING: That the rights of human beings include the rights to minimum income, adequate housing and legal services and dignity in old age; and BELIEVING: That it is the responsibility of government to secure, protect and defend these rights, and to provide appropriate services to implement them...

BE IT RESOLVED: The Tenth General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association urges the President of the United States: To order the Joint Chiefs of Staff to issue a cease-fire to all American troops in Southeast Asia immediately; also, to announce and plan a complete and immediate withdra...

CONVINCED that human survival depends on the abolition of war as a means of settling disputes among nations; AWARE that human well-being depends on diverting to human needs the vast amounts now spent on weapons; BELIEVING that peoples everywhere yearn for an end to conflict and a beginning toward...

RECOGNIZING: That women have minority status in terms of employment opportunities, legal rights, the educational system, political power, and positions of influence in religious bodies; AWARE: That woman tend to react to their cultural image by limiting their aspirations and by forming low...

In keeping with the long-standing moral commitment of Unitarian Universalists expressed by the 1966 General Assembly in its Statement of Consensus on Racial Justice, which pledges us "to work to eliminate all vestiges of discrimination and segregation in (our) churches and fellowships. . . and to...

The thrust of continental policy is now, as it has been historically, the steady expropriation of Indian land and water resources for the benefit of whites in the United States. The practice has been to locate the Indians on the most arid and least productive land. In Canada, Native treaty rights...

WHEREAS, the present local, state or provincial and federal laws in the United States and Canada regarding the growing, sale, trade, possession and consumption of cannibus sativa (marijuana) are based largely on public hysteria and myth, rather than on any established data about the effects of...

SHARING the fears of such authorities as Arthur Goldberg and Roy Wilkins, etc., regarding governmental terror campaigns against dissenting groups; ACKNOWLEDGING the findings of the federal grand jury that local police and federal government agencies conspired to conceal evidence of an illegal pol...

DEPLORING the fact that over two-thirds of the federal budget for fiscal year 1969 was allotted to military expenditures and that national resources of scientific knowledge and skills are being largely devoted to military research; CONVINCED that such major problems as poverty, environmental...

WHEREAS, private schools are springing up in many parts of the country under church sponsorship with the aim of avoiding desegregation of public schools, thus subverting the Supreme Court order for immediate desegregation; and WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association has repeatedly affirme...

WHEREAS, two hundred scientists from fifty different countries meeting in Paris in the fall of 1968 under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Social and Cultural Organization came to the conclusion that within a period of approximately twenty years the life process on earth will be seriou...

DEPRESSED AND HEARTSICK at the continued killing and maiming in Vietnam; REVOLTED by the Song My massacre, which is only one in a series of war crimes, and the resumption of bombing in North Vietnam; SUPPORTING the opinion of most expert observers that "Vietnamization" is an impossible concept an...

WHEREAS, we recognize the greatly increased interdependence of the peoples of the world, in this nuclear age; WHEREAS, we realize that the common interests of men can only be served through world cooperation; WHEREAS, we believe that we can best serve our local, state and national communities whe...

OBSERVING: That for seventy years the citizens of the District of Columbia enjoyed local home rule, then in the troubled period following the Civil War, Congress abolished the elected local government and since that time has exercised detailed control of the District's affairs; NOTING: That the...

RECOGNIZING THAT: A significant minority in this country are either homosexual or bisexual in their feelings and/or behavior; Homosexuality has been the target of severe discrimination by society and in particular by the police and other arms of government; A growing number of authorities on the...

WHEREAS, a report on the UUA administrative action to implement the 1969 business resolution on Countering Institutional Racism was not officially presented to the delegates at this General Assembly; and WHEREAS, the delegates cannot determine from the report to churches and fellowships, dated Ma...

BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1969 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association opposes the development, construction, and deployment of any anti-ballistic missile system, and urges the United States and House of Representatives to oppose the funding of the Safeguard program. THE 1968...

BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1969 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association urges that the President and Congress take immediate steps to abolish the Selective Service System and establish a volunteer military service with the financial, educational, and professional incentives...

BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1969 General Assembly: Urges the Unitarian Universalist Association to continue and intensify its relation with the Project Equality Council; and further Urges its local societies to participate in Project Equality wherever it is operating in their local community; and Ur...