Vietnam Settlement
WHEREAS, the United States has been responsible for death,
destruction and defoliation in Southeast Asia;
BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1973 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association:
- Condemns the continued bombing of Cambodia and Laos, and supports the Congressional cut-off of all funds for military activity on, over, or from off the shores of Cambodia, Laos, and North and South Vietnam; and
- Urges that all remaining US military personnel and military advisors be immediately brought home from Southeast Asia;
- That the United States contribute adequate funds to appropriate United Nations agencies for the rehabilitation and restoration of North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia;
- That United States citizenship be granted to all children fathered by American personnel in Southeast Asia if the mothers and children so desire;
- That American immigration and adoptive procedures be simplified so as to encourage adoption of such children by American families;
- That a constitutional amendment be enacted clarifying the prerogatives of the Congress's war-making powers in such a way as to prevent future wars of aggression by Presidential fiat; and
- That, pending the amendment of the Constitution, the Congress pass one of the bills now under consideration in the House and Senate to limit the President's power to conduct warfare.