WHEREAS the Unitarian Universalist Association’s fifth Principle affirms the use of the democratic process in society at large; WHEREAS democracy depends on fairly counted votes and public confidence that votes have been fairly counted; WHEREAS an estimated thirty percent of those voting in...

Preamble Liberty is at the core of our Unitarian Universalist faith. Civil liberties are at the heart of our American experiment in democracy....

WHEREAS our Unitarian Universalist Principles call upon us to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person and to seek justice, equity, and compassion in human relations; and WHEREAS in the past four decades the Unitarian Universalist Association and its member congregations...

For decades, the federal government has awarded grants and contracts to religious groups to provide social services. However, to protect their integrity and the interests of taxpayers, religious groups until now have created separate, secular entities to receive the public funds....

Scope: US The health and integrity of the American democracy at the national, state, and local levels depends, in large measure, on fair and open elections that command public confidence and encourage full citizen participation....

In the early morning hours of Friday, June 18, 1999, three synagogues in Sacramento, California, were set on fire. The three synagogues—Congregation B'nai Israel, Congregation Beth Shalom, and Knesset Israel Torah Center—suffered over $1,000,000 worth of damage, including a library with a...

We live in a global village that brings people of diverse economic, cultural, and religious backgrounds into close and interdependent contact. The resulting challenges are immense. They defy traditional efforts to ensure socio-economic fairness....

WHEREAS the year 1998 marks the 150th anniversary of the women's rights convention in the United States, held at Seneca Falls and Rochester, New York; and WHEREAS the year 2000 will mark the 150th anniversary of the much larger convention at Worcester, Massachusetts, and both conventions and thei...

Among the issues of national and state political importance in the United States, none is of more vital and immediate concern to the healthy functioning of an informed electorate than reform of political campaign financing....

WHEREAS US Representative Ernest Istook of Oklahoma, along with 116 co-sponsors, introduced the following proposed amendment to the US Constitution in the House of Representatives on May 8, 1997: To secure the people's right to acknowledge God according to the dictates of conscience: The people's...

BECAUSE Unitarian Universalists affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person; and BECAUSE Unitarian Universalists promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations; and BECAUSE Unitarian Universalists believe in the importance of religious community; and WHEREAS people with...

BECAUSE Unitarian Universalists covenant to affirm the right of conscience and the use of the demo-cratic process within our congregations and in society at large; and BECAUSE Unitarian Universalists embrace reason, freedom, acceptance, love, and the value of human diversity as guiding principles...

WHEREAS the Supreme Court of the United States on May 23, l99l, upheld a Bush Administration regulation which withholds all funding provided under Title X of the Public Health Service Act from any family planning agency whose physicians and educators advise their clients or patients of their opti...

GUIDED by the Unitarian Universalist Association's commitment to justice, equity, and compassion in human relations and the inherent worth and dignity of every person; and INSPIRED by our special responsibility to promote the full participation of persons in full range of human endeavor without...

WHEREAS, the 1989 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association has passed a resolution entitled AIDS/HIV CRISIS that condemns discrimination against people living with AIDS; WHEREAS, there is no evidence to prove that Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) can be transmitted by casual...

BECAUSE, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association covenant to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person, and justice, equity and compassion in human relations; and BECAUSE, Unitarian Universalists have historically come to the defense of persons...

WHEREAS the Principles and Purposes adopted in the By-Laws of the UUA specify that: "We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: The inherent worth and dignity of every person;Justice, equity, and compassion in human relations"; WHEREAS...

Guided by our belief as Unitarian Universalists that human life has inherent dignity, which may be compromised when life is extended beyond the will or ability of a person to sustain that dignity; and believing that it is every person's inviolable right to determine in advance the course of actio...

Because Unitarian Universalists have historically affirmed the value of public education in a pluralistic society; and Because we believe that free inquiry strengthens minds in the individual search for knowledge; and WHEREAS, recent history shows a continuing series of attacks on access to...

BECAUSE, Unitarian Universalists believe that the inherent worth and dignity of every person, the right of individual conscience, and respect for human life are inalienable rights due every person; and that the personal right to choose in regard to contraception and abortion is an important aspec...