WHEREAS, a basic principle of the Unitarian Universalist Association is to "implement the vision of one world by striving for a world community founded on ideals of brotherhood, justice, and peace"; and WHEREAS, delegates of the historic peace churches—Friends, Mennonites, and Brethren—gathered...

WHEREAS, President Carter has proposed a federal budget which calls for significant increases in military expenditures, while at the same time calling for major cuts in expenditures for human and social services; and WHEREAS, this shift in federal priorities is likely to have disastrous effects o...

WHEREAS, reversal of the arms race must be the overwhelming priority on the human agenda because escalating military power: Diverts crucial resources from human and environmental needs; Contributes to runaway inflation and inhibits full employment; Leads toward the certainty of planetary holocaus...

WHEREAS, continued nuclear proliferation increases the danger of accidental nuclear warfare; and WHEREAS, the stockpiling of nuclear weapons increases the probability of the extinction of ALL life on earth in the event of nuclear war; BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1979 General Assembly of the Unitaria...

WHEREAS, our world lives under threat of nuclear holocaust; and WHEREAS, nuclear proliferation increases the danger of nuclear holocaust; and WHEREAS, SALT results are presently unsatisfactory; and WHEREAS, United States military security is not jeopardized by the proposed independent initiatives...

WHEREAS, the political method of reliance upon the power to hurt, kill, and destroy has led humankind far down the dead-end road to total human extinction; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1977 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association affirms as the only hope for human surviva...

WHEREAS, the majority of the American people now know that the United States intervention in the war in Vietnam was wrong, and was, in fact, a war undeclared by the Congress of the United States; and WHEREAS, President Carter has said that American involvement in the war was a mistake and has, in...

WHEREAS, since World War II, the United States has spent $1.3 trillion and misdirected its industrial capacity to remain number one among nations in military power; and WHEREAS, during these same years the United States has not reached its potential in meeting many of the most vital human needs o...

WHEREAS, President Ford's program of conditional clemency and earned re-entry for draft evaders and deserters of the Indochina War has failed in a large majority of cases to aid those it was purported to help and has failed to meet the moral issue of reuniting our people without moralistic...

WHEREAS, real peace in Vietnam is of primary importance and killings and destruction must be ended, and the continued military support of both North and South Vietnam contributes to prolonging the strife; BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1974 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association urg...

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 fu...

WHEREAS, improved cultural and economic relations with China and Cuba may decrease tension and lead to diplomatic recognition of those countries by the government of the United States; BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1973 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association expresses its support o...

WHEREAS, napalm and other incendiary weapons have been used during and since World War II; and WHEREAS, we recognize the desirability of general and complete disarmament and the urgent need to abolish war; and WHEREAS, we welcome the recent report of the Secretary General of the United Nations on...

APPALLED that the administration in Washington, instead of taking advantage of such opportunities as partial withdrawal from Vietnam, and possible arms reduction by SALT and the UN Conference of the Committee on Disarmament, has increased the Defense Department budget by $4 billion and is plannin...

WHEREAS, hundreds of thousands of Americans have unjustly suffered a loss of civil rights, liberty and jobs because they have been in opposition to the Indochina War or to the racism and oppression of the American military and draft systems; and WHEREAS, according to Canadian Department of...

WHEREAS, the telephone excise tax was levied specifically by Congress in 1966 to finance the war in Vietnam; and WHEREAS, those voting in favor of the following do so with the intention of refusing payment of the federal excise tax on telephones; BE IT RESOLVED: That the delegates of the 1972...

WHEREAS, the mining of Haiphong and six other North Vietnamese harbors, and the resumption of heavy, indiscriminate bombing of North Vietnam are attacks of military aggression undertaken in the spring of 1972 by the United States government; and WHEREAS, these military actions occur at a time whe...

BECAUSE the Canadian Council of Churches' 1969 estimate of the number of United States military refugees and draft resisters was 60,000 with projections of 20,000 per year together with substantial numbers of similar expatriates in other countries; and BECAUSE most of these young men left the Uni...

BE IT RESOLVED: The Tenth General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association urges the President of the United States: To order the Joint Chiefs of Staff to issue a cease-fire to all American troops in Southeast Asia immediately; also, to announce and plan a complete and immediate withdra...

DEPRESSED AND HEARTSICK at the continued killing and maiming in Vietnam; REVOLTED by the Song My massacre, which is only one in a series of war crimes, and the resumption of bombing in North Vietnam; SUPPORTING the opinion of most expert observers that "Vietnamization" is an impossible concept an...