WHEREAS, Unitarian Universalist congregations and individuals covenant in our first and sixth principles to affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person as well as work toward a world community with peace, liberty and justice for all; WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association lists...

WHEREAS, the year 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the ship “Mayflower” in the region now known as New England; and WHEREAS, concern has been expressed by Native American tribal leaders, by human rights advocates, by environmental justice advocates, and by others, about the...

As the United States engages in a national discussion on ending gun violence, tragedy continues. The recent attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which took the lives of 49 people and injured 53 more, highlights an epidemic that claims 89 lives a day across the nation. While some...

BECAUSE—“Injustice at Every Turn,” a 2011 nationwide survey of transgender and gender non-conforming people, detailed overwhelming discrimination across multiple major areas of their lives: education, employment, health, family life, housing, and public accommodations; BECAUSE—Equality in...

BECAUSE Unitarian Universalist Association’s Principles call us as member congregations to affirm and promote “The inherent worth and dignity of every person” and “The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all”; WHEREAS, our living tradition draws from many sources,...

As Unitarian Universalists, we embrace the reproductive justice framework, which espouses the human right to have children, not to have children, to parent the children one has in healthy environments and to safeguard bodily autonomy and to express one's sexuality freely. The reproductive justice...

WHEREAS, our Unitarian Universalist values call on us to honor the inherent worth and dignity of every person; WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) of congregations affirmed in its 2013 Statement of Conscience on Immigration as a Moral Issue that a moral immigration policy would...

WHEREAS, global climate change is fundamentally a moral and ethical crisis induced and exacerbated by human activity that can and must be modified to maintain a livable world for ourselves, our descendants, and other species; WHEREAS, looming ecological catastrophes impacting food, water, and...

WHEREAS, Unitarian Universalists strive for justice, equity and compassion in human relations; WHEREAS, Unitarian Universalists have a goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all; WHEREAS, allowing injustice to go unchallenged violates our principles; WHEREAS, the Black Lives...

BECAUSE our Unitarian Universalist principles, faith and values call us to witness and advocate for human worth and dignity, justice, equity, compassion and the goal of world community; and BECAUSE the 2013 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association adopted a Statement of Conscien...

WHEREAS, our Unitarian Universalist principles, faith and values call us to witness and advocate for human worth and dignity, justice, equity, compassion and the goal of world community. WHEREAS, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) people in Uganda are being rounded up and...

BECAUSE Unitarian Universalists affirm the inherent worth and dignity of each person—an unshakeable conviction calling us to respect ourselves and others; BECAUSE Unitarian Universalists affirm justice, equity, and compassion in human relations, pointing us toward the larger community and a...

WHEREAS, Unitarian Universalist congregations covenant by our Second and Seventh Principles to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations and respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part; and WHEREAS, the climate crisis threatens Earth syst...

Whereas, the Board-approved Ends for the Association call on the administration to move our Association toward a future in which “UU congregations and communities are intentionally inclusive, multicultural, and multigenerational”; and Whereas, Moderator Gini Courter, in her report, and Mel...

WHEREAS, programs such as the “War on Drugs” and practices such as “Stop and Frisk” are actively used by police to harass and oppress communities of color; WHEREAS, Michelle Alexander, at the 2012 UUA General Assembly said, “We use our criminal justice system to label people of color...

BECAUSE the Sources of Unitarian Universalism counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science; BECAUSE Unitarian Universalist congregations covenant, in their Seventh Principle, to respect the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part, and member congregation...

BECAUSE Unitarian Universalists believe in the inherent worth and dignity of every human person, and in the use of the democratic process in society at large, and because approval of the 2011 AIW opposing Citizens United paved the way for the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) to take the...

A belief in “the inherent worth and dignity of every person” is core to Unitarian Universalism: every person, no exceptions. As religious people, our Principles call us to acknowledge the immigrant experience and to affirm and promote the flourishing of the human family. Our Sources “challenge...

WHEREAS the delegates of the 2010 General Assembly instructed the UUA Board to create a “Justice General Assembly” in 2012, whose business is accountable to partner organizations doing human rights work in Arizona; and WHEREAS the Unitarian Universalist Association has been asked by partner...

CONSIDERANDO que los delegados de la Asamblea General 2010 encomendaron a la junta directiva de la AUU realizar una “Asamblea General por la Justicia” en 2012 que respondiera ante las organizaciones asociadas que trabajan en derechos humanos en Arizona; y CONSIDERANDO que nuestras organizaciones...