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Environment

Delegates adopted a Statement of Conscience calling for widespread changes in response to global warming: Threat of Global Warming/Climate Change. (Here’s the magazine’s earlier coverage of [...]

My news summary of the 2006 General Assembly was published this morning. It provides a relatively quick overview of the business at GA and includes a bunch of things that didn’t make it into the daily reports here.

Those of you who have been following this blog may have been left in suspense about the four [...]

Sunday afternoon’s plenary session of the General Assembly adopted a Statement of Conscience on global warming, passed three responsive resolutions, and adopted another resolution at the very end — but because I had to duck out of the plenary, I’m still scrounging around for the texts of the four additional resolutions. (More tomorrow when I return [...]

The UUA General Assembly on Sunday adopted five of the six Actions of Immediate on this year’s agenda. They are:

AIW-2: “End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining”
AIW-3: “Endorse the ‘Declaration of Peace’ Campaign”
AIW-4: “Pass the Stem-Cell Research Enhancement Act”
AIW-5: “Stand Up for the United Nations Human Rights Council”
AIW-6: “Support Immigrant Justice — Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can!”

Delegates [...]

Delegates have just adopted changes to the UUA bylaws that significantly modify the Statement of Conscience process. The new process will require the participation of at least 25 percent of the UUA’s member congregations in introducing study/action issues into the process that generates Statements of Conscience. Opponents and supporters of the changes both observed that far [...]

Saturday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch features a story about the General Assembly: “‘Proudly liberal’ Unitarians gather here” (6.24.06). A few key passages from the story:

“It’s a joyful, exuberant, spirited gathering of people of faith who are not ashamed to be called religious liberals in an era when liberal is considered by many to be a dirty [...]

Six of the ten Actions of Immediate Witness proposed by delegates were added to the agenda this morning by the Commission on Social Witness. Charlie Clements, the president of the UU Service Committee, complained in his plenary report that a resolution sponsored by the UUSC was not among them.

The six resolutions delegates are considering are:

AIW-1: Call [...]

At the end of Saturday morning’s plenary session, UUA moderator Gini Courter announced a moderated miniassembly to continue the discussion of the global warming Statement of Conscience. The conversation will be led by UUA vice-moderator Ned Wight in Room 267 beginning [...]

Our news blog, Unitarian Universalists in the Media, picked up a story about the General Assembly from KWMU, a National Public Radio affiliate in St. Louis. Matt Sepic interviewed UUA President William Sinkford on Wednesday. Among other things, Matt Sepic asked him why Unitarian Universalists celebrate “liberalism.”

Sinkford replied: “Unfortunately, the fundamentalist religious right [...]

In theory, Statements of Conscience adopted by the General Assembly speak the will of the denomination as a whole because they’re rooted in two years of congregational engagement. (This morning moderator Gini Courter pointed out, however, that very few congregations actually took part in the process that led to the global warming Statement of Conscience under [...]