Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket Vassar College on Thursday, February 28. Students at Vassar are mounting a response (read how you can help them http://blueboat.blogs.uua.org/oncampus/vassar-westboro-baptist-church/"…;). – Ed. Illogic of Westboro Church Teachings provokes defections...

Some of you may have heard that the Westboro Baptist Church is coming to VassarVassarDoSomethingVCwww.glsen.org/hudsonvalley">Hudson Valley Chapter of GLSEN.

Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE) is the innocent enough sounding term for practices that are designed to force people to give-up same sex orientation. The techniques employed to force individuals to renounce their freely chosen sexual identity can be psychological or physical, and include...

Share your own resolution with the Standing on the Side of Love campaign http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1272/p/salsa/web/questionnaire/pub… clicking here!

Okay, okay, so "You Light My Chalice" (from UU Media Collaborative Works) isn't exactly setting the world on fire with its message of social justice... But artwork - a song, a drawing, a video, even a work of prose - can resonate in deeper ways that any other form of protest can....

1Valentinushttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/gay-military-benefits-sldn_n_1…;). (Ironic given that http://www.stripes.com/pentagon-extends-new-benefits-to-same-sex-milita… partners of http://www.stripes.com/pentagon-extends-new-benefits-to-same-sex-milita… military personnel are only...

federal tipped minimum wage, and has been since 1991. Anything else they make during the course of their shifts comes from tips. Until I worked in a restaurant over a summer break, I really didn't realize this. My assumption had been that tips were thanks for above and beyond service. But in...

Two years ago, I attended a workshop at General Assembly with a panel people who had ancestors that had owned slaves. It was a moving experience to hear these folks grapple with the notion of the terrible deeds of their kin from centuries past. The moment that most sticks in my memory is when...

Write your own prayer, mantra or meditation. They can take many forms. Some may be addressed to a deity or to an idea. Others may be requests for guidance, expressions of gratitude, or an expression of your thoughts, offered not to anyone in particular, but put out into the world....

Let’s face it: NOBODY likes Valentine’s Day. It really sucks. It’s so commercial and that’s hard if you’re broke. It’s forced affection - what if you’ve just started dating someone new? Or are in a relationship that isn’t going well – do you break up before and be the evil ex who...

First Parish in Cambridge, in Cambridge, MA, to hear Intern Minister Kenny Wiley preach a sermon titled "Two Black Kids: A Unitarian Universalist Story." I went primarily because I know both of the "Black Kids" in the sermon....

Uncommon Community: One Congregation’s Work With Prisoners” by John Speer can help you envision what that work might look like. Black and Pink, an organization whose Church of the Larger Fellowship offers a le… ministry that uses CLF as the "pass-through" for letters to prisoner-members, most...

Based on multiple sources, particularly a letter from Margaret Fuller to Caroline Sturgis, October 22, 1840. The letter may be found at Houghton Library, Harvard University (call number MS Am 1221 (242))....

www.mcso.org">"Tent City" detention center, I felt we had found the perfect symbol for what is wrong with our immigration system: a complex that is poorly designed, ad hoc, militarized, dehumanizing and humiliating. The heat was in the triple digits even though it was after sundown, and as our...

General Assembly in 2012 was focused on our commitments to justice and service. It culminated in a protest against the Maricopa County's "http://blogs.uuworld.org/ga/2012/06/24/thousands-wage-peaceful-protest-… city jail," and Rev....

Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) which allows U.S. citizens or permanent residents to sponsor their same-sex partner for immigration. The IEAF puts forward many pragmatic arguments for ending this practice, pointing out that many couples leave the United States for more progressive countries,...

Transgender Information and Resources: Transg… Basics- in video! Transgender 101: Identity, Welcome, and Resources: A great resource from the UUA, including tips for being more welcoming of trans people for congregations and individuals, and a great vocabulary list. TransfaithThe Human Rights...

submit photos via email to our Flickr page). Action for Families: Brainstorm with your child: what does every person have in common with every other person? Can you come up with ten ways they are the same? 20? 100? Featured Organization: -...

Neil deGrasse Tyson (who describes himself as agnostic and is claimed by atheists) says,"¹Christopher Stedman's ringing humanist voice for the power of faith in people to transform intolerance into loving community is another example of how a non-theist approach to difference can make all the...

http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/30days_calendar/Friday-February-… the 30 Days of Love action guide for tips on how to respond.