Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Story, "A Sea of Pink" Preparation for Activity Read the story and prepare to share it with the group. Read the discussion questions. Choose those that will best help the children share their interpretations of the story and relate it to their own...

LGBTQ Marchers Welcomed to Fly Their Flag at Iconic Parade New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade have reversed their longstanding opposition to marchers carrying banners identifying them as members of the LGBTQ community. The new more inclusive policy reflects the evolution of public opinion and...

Michael Brown – killed by the police years before he or his aggressor were born. TO BEAR WITNESS – AGAIN This blog has published extensively on the inequitable treatment of racial and other minorities in American society. The recent police killing of 18-year old Michael Brown in Ferguson,...

The Rev. Peter Morales, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), issued this statement following the continued violence in Ferguson, MO: Church of the Larger Fellowship, offers The Huffington Post. This statement is available on UUA.org.

OUnitarian Universalist Church of Akron (Ohio) Social Justice Ministry on Im…;, F… Justice and L… Rights and Welcoming Congregation is literally lifesaving – as attested to by this excerpt from story on thewww.pflag.org/">PFLAGBennett Award for Human Justice and Social Action winning Social...

Reproductive Justice Tour Daily Blog: Day 4 After a hiatus, we continue our reporting of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus and surrounding UU congregations Reproductive Justice learning trip, held the week of June 16–21. –Ed. Our group split into two and took a tour of the...

Learn about Robert Jensen, graduate of the Unitarian Universalist Association Summer Seminary Class of 2013, from the selected excerpts of this profile piece by mailto:amohammed@milipitasjournal.com">Aliyah Mohammed of the Fremont Bulletin from the Mercury News. – Ed. Unitarian Universalist...

Reproductive Justice Daily Blog: Day 1 Love Reaches Out in many ways, and during the week of June 16–21 Blue Boat invites you to join high school youth of First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus and surrounding UU congregations on their Justice Trip learning about Reproductive Justice.

Unbounded Love Standing in the Side of the Love (SSL), the interfaith public advocacy campaign sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), celebrates 5 years of community activism, social networking and General Assembly (GA) in Providence....

population of the United States) still live in states where the right to marry is restricted on the basis of gender-preference. Support the UUA in making marriage Equality the law of the land SlateHuman Rights Campaign (HRC) website for detailed state-by-state information on marriage-equality.

Plaintiffs Include UU Congregations Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations in North Carolina (www.puuc.org/">Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church, Charlotte and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville) have joined the suit against the state of North Carolina led by the...

Unitarian Universalists Welcome Them welcoming faith, and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has a long history of fighting for the rights of the LGBTQ community. Finally, other religions are moving to accept LGBTQ members in their faith. The FirstThirdPrinciplesWilliam Saleton reports...

Invented by a Unitarian—Evolved by the UUA When Unitarian Julia Ward Howe founded Mother's Day for Peace in the 1870's as an antiwar rallying cry she probably didn't imagine Anna Jarvis' touching memorial to her mother—and the countless sappy cards it has bequeathedUnitarian Universalist...

Reproductive Choice is not an option Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has led on the issue of reproductive rights since 1963 – ten years before abortions were legal in this country. In this interview Jessica Halperin who was just was elected to a two-year term as Vice-Chair of the...

Unitarian Universalism welcomes the Transgendered and supports Transgendered equality. Learn how the UUA persuaded Verizon to protect transgendered workers. Excerpted from the essay in Ivan E. Coyote's book on Slate.com: I don’t see cisgendered women who want to feel safe in a public washroom as...

Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), Honey Maid literally turned the words of their critics against them to remind them of a deeper message. http://www.businessinsider.com/honey-maid-wholesome-love-response-2014-… this account in images on Business Insider. Learn about Marriage Equality and...

Replace False Belief with Knowledge and Understanding Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) combats discrimination against and unequal treatment of the LBGTQ community, and its efforts for social justice in its many forms. Purchase "You Can Tell Just By Looking" from the Beacon Press Bookstore.

Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) s…; on the change in attitude toward same-sex marriage and LGBTQ issues amongst people of faith since 2003 show that fully one-third of Millennials who left their church over the past 10 years did so because of anti-gay policies or attitudes. And while a...

passed the Arizona Senate. Likening it to Jim Crow laws, Takai threatens to create global public awareness through social media, mobilizing a boycott against Arizona if Governor Jan Brewer signs the bill into law. In the past Brewer vetoed similar legislation, though she is known to support the...