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  • In response to Moderator Gini Courter’s report: Whereas, the assembled delegates of the 2010 General Assembly (GA) passed business and responsive resolutions acknowledging the importance of engaging and empowering youth and young adults to bring their unique gifts to the planned Justice General...
    2011 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, International Human Rights & Justice, Children & Youth Reproductive Justice, Immigration
  • Rev. Dr. Michael Tino, UU Fellowship of Northern Westchester, Mount Kisco, NY John Hawkins, UUA Trustee, Metro New York District David Friedman, UUA Trustee, St....
    2011 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, LGBTQ Issues, Marriage Equality, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality
  • WHEREAS President Peter Morales’s Annual Report referred to communities with a “spiritual hunger” that can be fed by Unitarian Universalism, he referred to the need for multicultural competence in serving these communities, and he cited the Strategic Review of Professional Ministries, which...
    2011 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles
  • This resolution is in response to the Board of Trustee’s statement in its report that they are “eager to further efforts to empower young generations of UU [Unitarian Universalist] leaders.” It is based on: the tireless past work of youth and young adult leaders at our GAs [General...
    2010 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Children & Youth Reproductive Justice
  • BE IT RESOLVED that the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Board of Trustees investigate how we might develop a covenant of right relationships for all of our work together, and report back to this General Assembly next year....
    2010 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Racial Justice
  • WHEREAS the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Board Report on the Business Resolution on Phoenix General Assembly 2012 calls for a gathering of Unitarian Universalists for the "purposes of witnessing on immigration, racial, and economic justice—a 'Justice' General Assembly," THEREFORE BE I...
    2010 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Immigration, Racial Justice
  • In response to the changes to Article II reported by the Commission on Appraisal and subsequent discussion of those recommendations at this General Assembly, the delegates request that the UUA [Unitarian Universalist Association] Board of Trustees place a motion to substitute the recommended...
    2009 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Due Process & Civil Liberties
  • The 2009 General Assembly of the UUA [Unitarian Universalist Association] strongly urges the UUA Board of Trustees to facilitate a continuation and further deepening of the discussion of the Principles and Purposes begun by the review conducted by the UUA Commission on Appraisal, and that such...
    2009 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Due Process & Civil Liberties
  • WHEREAS the Commission on Appraisal submitted a proposal to amend Article II after a period of study and review as allowed by Article XV section C-15.1.(c)(4), a process begun in 2006, while Article XV C-15.1. (c)(3) prevents such a proposal from being amended, and WHEREAS there was an apparent...
    2009 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Due Process & Civil Liberties
  • WHEREAS the Moderator, in her report, referenced the “Youth and Young Adult Empowerment Resolution” passed by the 2008 General Assembly on Friday, June 27, 2008, which “urges the Unitarian Universalist Association [UUA] and its congregations and district structures to: invite ministerial...
    2008 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Children & Youth Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Health
  • WHEREAS the Unitarian Universalist Association Bylaws state that our Association promotes “the full participation of persons in all of its and their activities and in the full range of human endeavor without regard to . . . age”; WHEREAS statement 12, “Support, integrate, and retain youth and...
    2008 | Business Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Children & Youth Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Health
  • Whereas the Consultation on Ministry To and With Youth has presented a positive report with regard to the future of youth ministry throughout the [Unitarian Universalist] Association, and Whereas the 2008 General Assembly has expressed its support for youth and young adult ministry through passag...
    2008 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Children & Youth Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Health
  • Be it resolved that the delegates of the 2006 GA are grateful for the deeply respectful, caring, and intelligent guidance and leadership of our Moderator, Gini Courter. Her humor and skill have infinitely enriched our experience as delegates, and we applaud her spirit, skill and leadership.
    2006 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles
  • Mindful of the connection between Beacon Press book sales and Beacon Press deficits and heeding the admonitions of the UUA Finance Committee and our President that the publication of unsold books is neither useful to our mission or supportive of our finances; We, the representatives of the member...
    2002 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles
  • Because we value the inherent dignity of every person and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and within our Association; and In response to the report of the President delivered on June 23, 2000 in which deficiencies and inequities in the process of the nomination and...
    2000 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles
  • WHEREAS in her report to the 1995 General Assembly, Executive Vice President Kathleen Montgomery called on our Association to promote safer congregations for women, children, and men; and BECAUSE Unitarian Universalists affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person; justice,...
    1995 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles
  • WHEREAS the congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association are committed to the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all; WHEREAS the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office's (UU-UNO) priorities are peace and disarmament, human rights, and the environment;...
    1993 | Resolution of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, International Human Rights & Justice, International Peace & Conflict
  • VWHEREAS, it is the policy of the Unitarian Universalist Association to encourage the Legislature of the State of Arizona to declare the third Monday in January as a legal holiday in recognition of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.; and WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of the Unitarian...
    1987 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles
  • WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association passed a resolution titled "Women and Religion" at the 1977 General Assembly and a related resolution titled "Battered Women" at the 1979 General Assembly; and WHEREAS, these resolutions, in part, urge all Unitarian Universalists to examine their...
    1980 | Business Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Gender Justice
  • WHEREAS, it has been one of the strongest traditions of our Unitarian Universalist religious movement to honor freedom of the press; and WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist World is described in the 1974 Directory of the UUA as "intended to strengthen communication between individual UU's, member...
    1974 | Business Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Civil Rights & Religious Liberty