The United States Supreme Court is set to hear a challenges to California State Proposition 8 and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act – both of which restrict the definition of marriage as a union between one woman and one man – toward the end of March, 2013, with a decision likely near the end...

In support of Common Read 2013 of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander, Blue Boat brings you news and information on the inequities of the burgeoning penal system in the United States and some lesser-known consequences of living with a criminal...

“The military is widely understood to be the most racially, ethnically, and religiously diverse institution in the U.S.", notes The Rev. Sarah Lammert, director of Ministries and Faith Development for the Unitarian Universalist Association, and president-elect of the National Conference of...

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...

Prayer is one word for the alignment of our full attention with our desire to connect with That Which Is Larger Than Us. It can take many forms, from the quiet cultivation of stillness to the deliberate naming of all that we’re grateful for, which Rev. Tom Schade calls “naming the goodness.”...