DEEPLY concerned with the gravity of the international situation and the increasing threat to peace due to armed intervention and other direct and indirect forms of interference threatening the political independence of states; and RECALLING that the Twentieth United Nations General Assembly in...

RESOLVED: The Unitarian Universalist Association approves the concern of the United States Congress with an important natural resource as evidenced by the Wilderness Act of 1964, the Clean Air Act of 1964, the Clean Air Act Amendments, the Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965, and the Water Quality A...

INASMUCH AS, one of the purposes and objectives of the Unitarian Universalist Association, as stated in Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, is "To affirm, defend and promote the supreme worth of every human personality, the dignity of man, and the use of the democratic method in human...

FURTHER RESOLVED: That we urge the Unitarian Universalist Association to become increasingly aware of the problems and potentials of older adults within both the church and the community; and to become actively involved, both in meeting problems and developing potentials of older adults; and FURT...

AFFIRMING that one of the major goals of international diplomacy should be the reduction of tension between the United States and the People's Republic of China; and NOTING that the United States should initiate steps which may reduce that tension without sacrificing its own security, the Unitari...

RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association urges the complete abolition of capital punishment in all United States and Canadian jurisdictions; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association seek to encourage the governors of the states and the Canadian cabinet ...

Apartheid 1966 General Resolution THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION DEPLORES the refusal of the government of South Africa to comply with the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly and its continued implementation of the policies of apartheid; URGES the...

WHEREAS, the United States has made consistent progress in the past decade in promoting the welfare of its people by passage of labor and social legislation, such as collective bargaining, minimum wage, social security, workmen's compensation and child labor regulations, but has generally exclude...

WHEREAS, the Commission on Religion and Race has from its inception called upon Unitarians and Universalists to bear witness to their concern for racial justice at all times and in all possible situations; and WHEREAS, in view of the fact that James Reeb was deeply engaged in the life of this cit...

RESOLVED: That Unitarian Universalists be urged to work for comprehensive "open occupancy" legislation at all levels and that such legislation embody firm and unambiguous enforcement procedures; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the President of the United States be encouraged to extend the federal...

WHEREAS, federal, state and city narcotics laws declare the habitual use of narcotics to be a crime, while narcotics addiction is considered by the medical profession to be an illness and by many psychiatrists and social scientists to be a personality disorder rooted in psycho-social factors; and...

WHEREAS, registration procedures and the November 1964 elections in the state of Mississippi were conducted by the officials in that state in a manner clearly designed to discriminate systematically against Negro citizens of the state; and WHEREAS, qualified voters of Mississippi residing in the...

BE IT RESOLVED: That whenever an effort is made to impose on the membership of a local congregation restrictions based on race, color, sex, national origin or creedal tests, our responsible leadership shall make prompt and firm declaration (publicly when the issue is public) of the stated general...

WHEREAS, world peace depends on the recognition by all nations of fundamental human rights (such as those embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948); and WHEREAS, the United Nations has attempted to encourage the nations of the wo...

Freedom of thought, speech and assembly being particularly essential in colleges and universities where minds must be completely unfettered in their search for the truth; BE IT RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association asserts that there should be no curtailment of student and faculty...

AFFIRMING that the right to vote is elemental in our American society; NOTING that major obstacles are still being put by some states before Negroes who attempt to register to vote; and that after the passage of appropriate legislation physical and economic intimidation may nevertheless be used t...

WHEREAS, the 88th Congress of the United States enacted the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 in an effort to combat poverty; BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association support adequate appropriations in the Congress and vigor in the activities of the administration to...

NOTING that one of the recommendations of Commission V on Ethics and Social Action was that more "rationality and utility" could be injected into the General Assembly's consideration of resolutions if "the entire denomination for a full church year" could focus on "some one major topic for a...

WHEREAS, every phase of the religious education of children ought to be entirely in the hands of their respective parents or of the persons and agencies that these parents freely and individually choose; BE IT RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association express its opposition to all...

WHEREAS, the President of the United States has stated that one-fifth of all American families have resources inadequate to meet their basic needs and has announced a war on poverty in America and has called for a cooperative effort to deal with its causes and cures; WHEREAS, the blight of povert...