WHEREAS, today's society appears to worship youth and neglect the talent and problems of its elderly citizens; BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1973 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association reaffirms the Senior Citizens' Charter set forth at the White House Conference on Aging: The righ...

WHEREAS, fewer than twenty states in the United States have enacted "shielding" legislation and there is no federal legislation of this kind at all in the United States; and WHEREAS, the courts, including the US Supreme Court, have denied reporters and historians the right to refuse to disclose...

BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1973 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association reaffirms its support of the principle of separation of church and state in the United States and urges Unitarian Universalist societies to: Oppose all direct or indirect federal, state, or local tax aid to...

WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association was recently targeted for a repressive act by the United States federal government in the form of the invasion of the privacy of the Association and its members through the attempted seizure of the bank records of the Unitarian Universalist Associat...

RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association publish each year in a manner intended to achieve wide notice a report of its efforts to provide equal employment opportunity to women and racial minorities at all levels of its staff, said report to include a statistical summary similar in sc...

WHEREAS, heroin and other drug addictions have become a modern plague in which every victim becomes a source of contagion; and WHEREAS, heroin addiction is spreading rapidly today, especially among the younger generation and the poor; and WHEREAS, the effort to control heroin addiction by outlawr...

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 UUA has historically subscribed to the principle of oneness and equality of all human beings; and WHEREAS, the Association seeks to be guided by this principle in all its proceedings and programs; and WHEREAS, the new educational programs of the Department of Education and Social...

BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1972 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association recommends uniform gun legislation as follows: Licensing for the purchase and possession of all usable guns; Gun registration-holding owners legally accountable for all their guns and registrars legally...

BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1972 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association commends the Beacon Press for its publication of The Pentagon Papers.

BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1972 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association endorses and supports the actions taken by President Robert West and the Board of Trustees in resisting the efforts of the federal government to subpoena the financial and other records of the Association and...

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...

RECOGNIZING: That the rapid increase of violent crime accompanies a vast public ignorance and prejudice about its causes and methods of correction as seen by modern experts; NOTING: That the majority of persons arrested are males between 10-30 years suffering such social injustices as poverty,...

WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association opposes any kind of surveillance of private citizens or government employees; and WHEREAS, we feel that such surveillance leads to a potential for control and intimidation that is alien to our form of government and foreign to a society of free men ...

OBSERVING: That for seventy years the citizens of the District of Columbia enjoyed local home rule, then in the troubled period following the Civil War, Congress abolished the elected local government and since that time has exercised detailed control of the District's affairs; NOTING: That the...

SHARING the fears of such authorities as Arthur Goldberg and Roy Wilkins, etc., regarding governmental terror campaigns against dissenting groups; ACKNOWLEDGING the findings of the federal grand jury that local police and federal government agencies conspired to conceal evidence of an illegal pol...

WHEREAS, the present local, state or provincial and federal laws in the United States and Canada regarding the growing, sale, trade, possession and consumption of cannibus sativa (marijuana) are based largely on public hysteria and myth, rather than on any established data about the effects of...

In keeping with the long-standing moral commitment of Unitarian Universalists expressed by the 1966 General Assembly in its Statement of Consensus on Racial Justice, which pledges us "to work to eliminate all vestiges of discrimination and segregation in (our) churches and fellowships. . . and to...

RECOGNIZING: That women have minority status in terms of employment opportunities, legal rights, the educational system, political power, and positions of influence in religious bodies; AWARE: That woman tend to react to their cultural image by limiting their aspirations and by forming low...

BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1969 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association urges that the President and Congress take immediate steps to abolish the Selective Service System and establish a volunteer military service with the financial, educational, and professional incentives...