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WHEREAS, both Houses of the United States Congress have voted to fund draft registration; and WHEREAS, previous General Assemblies of the Unitarian Universalist Association have passed resolutions which have: Affirmed that the settlement of international conflicts by war is inconsistent with our...1980 | General ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Religious & Civil LibertiesPage/Article
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WHEREAS, the US Congress is now considering proposals on a new charter for the federal intelligence community; and WHEREAS, US intelligence agencies have used American and foreign clergy and church workers for clandestine operations and information collection; and WHEREAS, the 1976 UUA General...1980 | Business ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Religious & Civil LibertiesPage/Article
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WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association and its member societies have a longstanding commitment to use their power self-consciously and explicitly in the interests of their ideas; and WHEREAS, we believe that escalated international turmoil and violence are moving our government toward...1980 | General ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Religious & Civil LibertiesPage/Article
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WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association and its member societies have a longstanding commitment to use their power self-consciously and explicitly in the interests of their ideas; and WHEREAS, we believe that escalated international turmoil and violence are moving our government toward...1980 | General ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious LibertyPage/Article
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WHEREAS, General Assemblies of the Unitarian Universalist Association have opposed capital punishment by resolutions in 1961, 1966, and 1974; and WHEREAS, the aforementioned resolutions have urged complete abolition of capital punishment as inconsistent with respect for human life; for its...1979 | General ResolutionTagged as: Criminal Justice, Religious & Civil LibertiesPage/Article
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WHEREAS, the 1977 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association adopted a general resolution on the Equal Rights Amendment, which, in part, calls upon member societies to minimize economic participation in non-ratified states; and WHEREAS, the 1977 General Assembly affirmed the actio...1978 | Business ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Gender JusticePage/Article
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WHEREAS, the heritage of religious freedom extends into the nature of life and destiny; and WHEREAS, through advances in science and technology we anticipate longer lives; and WHEREAS, persons can be kept alive by heroic means after expectations of useful mental and physical activity have gone; a...1978 | General ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Religious & Civil Liberties, Reproductive HealthPage/Article
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WHEREAS, in the course of many illnesses when a person faces imminent death, a point is reached when medical science can offer no further treatment which can be expected to result in cure or remission of the disease, and the appropriate therapy becomes that which is designed to increase the comfo...1978 | General ResolutionTagged as: Religious & Civil Liberties, Reproductive HealthPage/Article
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WHEREAS, community-based correctional programs (probation, parole, pretrial intervention, halfway houses, work releases, etc.) are approximately six times less expensive than incarceration in prisons; and WHEREAS, the rate of recidivism is very high for those let out of prison (80 percent of all...1978 | General ResolutionTagged as: Criminal JusticePage/Article
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WHEREAS, there are millions of persons in the United States and Canada who are blind, deaf, physically or mentally disabled, or otherwise with special needs; and WHEREAS, these people suffer from discrimination and segregation in education, employment, transportation, and freedom of access becaus...1977 | Business ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Equal OpportunityPage/Article
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WHEREAS, the Commission on Appraisal has studied the representative nature of the General Assembly; and WHEREAS, we ourselves wholeheartedly wish to put into practice in our meetings what we have urged upon others regarding full inclusion with dignity of handicapped persons and the elderly; and...1977 | Business ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Religious & Civil LibertiesPage/Article
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WHEREAS, currently there are efforts being made to insert the creation story of Genesis into public school science textbooks; and WHEREAS, such action would be in direct contradiction with the separation of church and state; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1977 General Assembly of the Unitaria...1977 | Business ResolutionTagged as: Children & Youth Reproductive Justice, Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Reproductive HealthPage/Article
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WHEREAS, since March 4, 1977, several states, including Florida, Illinois, Georgia, and Arizona, have considered and not passed the Equal Rights Amendment; and WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation Board reaffirmed at the June, 1977 meeting their resolve to meet only in those sta...1977 | Business ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Equal Opportunity, Gender Justice, Reproductive HealthPage/Article
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WHEREAS, an amendment to the United States Constitution to provide equal rights for women has been ratified by thirty-five states; and WHEREAS, there remain fifteen states which have not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment and three affirmative decisions by states are necessary by March 22, 1979 ...1977 | General ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Equal Opportunity, Gender Justice, Reproductive HealthPage/Article
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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...1977 | General ResolutionTagged as: Global Peace & Conflict, Religious & Civil LibertiesPage/Article
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WHEREAS, nearly three out of four murders are impulsively committed by previously law-abiding citizens during arguments with family members or their acquaintances; WHEREAS, for every robber stopped by a homeowner with a handgun, four homeowners or members of their family are killed in gun acciden...1976 | General ResolutionTagged as: Criminal JusticePage/Article
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Because of our concern for freedom of conscience and the respect which should be accorded all persons at time of death, and because of our belief that people should be able to choose under fair and informed circumstances funeral arrangements which are in accord with their own personal, financial,...1976 | General ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Reproductive HealthPage/Article
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WHEREAS, it has become public knowledge, as a result of investigative journalism and of subsequent Congressional hearings, that government agencies including the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the Internal Revenue Service have indulged in illegal activities or the misuse of otherwis...1976 | General ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious LibertyPage/Article
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WHEREAS, Philip L....1976 | General ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious LibertyPage/Article
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WHEREAS, Senate Bill #1, the Criminal Justice Reform Act of 1975, in attempting to reform the outdated US Criminal Code, has presented us with an unparalleled threat to individual liberties, especially in disregard of the First Amendment; and WHEREAS, the bill is a massive, complicated measure so...1976 | General ResolutionTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Religious & Civil LibertiesPage/Article