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  • In responding to recent attacks on trans and nonbinary+ people, the UUA calls out the dangerous anti-democratic practices being used to silence dissent. We pledge our continued commitment to protect peoples' right to feel safe expressing their identity and to defend democratic institutions.
    May 5, 2023 | From Press Releases
    Tagged as: #LGBTQ, #SideWithLove, Gender Justice, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • In Faith on Trial, Mark Caggiano invites religious progressives and moderates to help put social progress and inclusion at the center of the national conversation about religion and the law.
    Book | By Mark J. T. Caggiano | June 18, 2021 | From Skinner House Books
    Tagged as: Church & State, Democracy, Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • America begins in black plunder and white democracy, ...
    2019 | Statement of Conscience
    Tagged as: Voting Rights, Religious & Civil Liberties, UUA Governance & Management
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  • WHEREAS, the movement for Palestinian human rights has grown stronger in recent years with student groups, faith groups, unions and academic associations all supporting Palestinian justice, and in many cases calling for boycotts of and divestment from corporations complicit in violation of...
    2019 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: International Human Rights & Justice, Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • One of the fundamental principles of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is the use of the democratic process. As an expression of our faith, many Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations engage in voter registration, election reform, and protecting voting rights and democracy....
    Press Release | By Unitarian Universalist Association | November 6, 2018 | From Home Page Story
    Tagged as: Election Reform, Voting Rights, Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark in Newark, Delaware, led by members Karen Barker and Catriona Binder-Macleod, recently applied for and received a $500 grant from the Fund for UU Social Responsibility
    August 27, 2018 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Religious & Civil Liberties, Social Justice
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  • Earlier this month, UUA President, Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, visited Transylvania to participate in the inauguration of the Hungarian Unitarian Church’s new ‘House of Religious Freedom’ and related events commemorating the 450th anniversary of the Edict of Torda.
    July 13, 2018 | From International Unitarian Universalism
    Tagged as: International Engagement & Building Peace, Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to uphold the Trump administration’s travel ban is a dangerous assault on religious freedom—specifically the religious freedom of Muslim people of color. The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) was party to an amicus brief questioning the constitutionality...
    June 27, 2018 | From Press Releases
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Immigration, Refugees, Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • “People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.” I remember these words of Dorothy Day as I think about the work we must do- all of the small and large steps we must take -  to end hatred and bigotry in our...
    By Joan Van Becelaere | September 11, 2017 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Religious & Civil Liberties, Social Justice
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  • Unitarian Universalist minister who heads Colorado ACLU sees complentary values in civil liberties work and in UU communities.
    By Alexandra Varney McDonald | May 15, 2017 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Becoming a Minister, Human Rights, Immigration, Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • “The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election has done more than upset the political world. For Unitarians and Universalists—and many others—it has challenged the soul. Its meaning is far more than political. There are also moral, spiritual and religious meanings in what has happened and is happening....
    April 17, 2017 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • Unitarian Universalist fellowship mobilizes to help before Trump administration rolls back rights.
    By Michael Hart | November 21, 2016 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Gender, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Politics, Service, Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • 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...
    2016 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • Massachusetts’s highest court is hearing a case brought by a Catholic shrine against a town that assessed property taxes on the “non-religious” portions of the shrine.
    By Christopher L. Walton | April 5, 2016 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Religion, Religious Pluralism, Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • The Unitarian Universalist Association and the Boy Scouts of America renew their relationship after a years-long split over gay scouts and God.
    By Joshua Eaton | March 24, 2016 | From UU World
    Tagged as: LGBTQ Issues, Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • On March 24, 2016, the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Boy Scouts of America signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding designed to provide guidance to UU congregations who wish to charter Scouting units.The full text of the Memorandum of Understanding reads:Whereas, the Unitarian...
    March 14, 2016
    Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Religious & Civil Liberties, Faith Development
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  • The West Virginia House of Representatives has passed a "Religious Freedom" bill. You can read an article about this on the Think Progress website....
    By Rose Edington | February 22, 2016 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Religious & Civil Liberties, Social Justice
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  • UUA President Peter Morales applauds policy change allowing Boy Scout chartering organizations to welcome gay adult leaders.
    By Christopher L. Walton | July 28, 2015 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • The Rev. Peter Morales issued the following statement reacting to the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) recent policy change: “I applaud the Boy Scouts of America for amending its adult leadership standards policy to include gay scout leaders. The development of a more inclusive BSA will not only...
    Press Release | By Unitarian Universalist Association | July 23, 2015 | From Home Page Story
    Tagged as: LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Religious & Civil Liberties
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  • For those of us who follow the Christian tradition, now is the season of Adventwho proudly proclaims that all generations will call her blessed. If you too, know oppression in our current society, remember how very sacred you are. Remember that you are co-creating divinity itself with your life.
    By Annie Gonzalez Milliken | December 4, 2014 | From Stories and Voices
    Tagged as: Activism, Advent, Christianity, Community, Discernment, Equity, Homecoming / Ingathering, Prayer Practices, Secular, Spiritual Practice, Unitarian Universalism, UU Identity, Anti-Oppression, Religious & Civil Liberties, Multiculturalism, Social Justice, Worship
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