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, the most effective and just basis for social change starts with empowerment of those people who suffer most grievously; WHEREAS, instrumental control over the material and spiritual elements of life promotes autonomy and the opportunity for self-fulfillment; WHEREAS, every life is indeed...

WHEREAS, the present court and penal systems have failed in their purpose of rehabilitation, have in fact damaged personalities and wholesome human values, and have resulted in a high rate of recidivism; and WHEREAS, we, who "affirm, defend, and promote the supreme worth of every human personalit...

WHEREAS, it has been one of the strongest traditions of our Unitarian Universalist religious movement to honor freedom of the press; and WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist World is described in the 1974 Directory of the UUA as "intended to strengthen communication between individual UU's, member...

WHEREAS, the interaction of human and technological forces has become increasingly complex and has resulted in awesome power and vulnerability; and WHEREAS, there is a need greater than at any other time in our history for objective study of issues and competent decision-making by our elected...

WHEREAS, at this time, even though there has been no execution in the United States for the past seven years, twenty-eight states have already passed legislation seeking to re-establish capital punishment; and WHEREAS, the act of execution of the death penalty by government sets an example of...

WHEREAS, US Supreme Court decisions announced on June 24, 1974 have returned the Supreme Court to a case-by-case determination of what is deemed obscene and have thereby reinstated a process which inevitably results in great uncertainty in that area; and WHEREAS, the Supreme Court on June 24...

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,...