Updates from UUA General Assembly 2021
We were honored to send over 20 CLF member delegates and 16 religious professional delegates to Virtual General Assembly 2021. Now that it’s over, we want to let you know some of what happened.
General Assembly (GA) is the annual meeting of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), during which UUs from around the world vote on the business of the Association, and come together to connect, learn, and worship. This year’s GA was held entirely online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The delegates from UU congregations passed, with 93% in favor, a Statement of Conscience entitled Undoing Systemic White Supremacy: A Call to Prophetic Action.
The delegates also passed three Actions of Immediate Witness: Stop Voter Suppression and Partner for Voting Rights and a Multiracial Democracy; Defend and Advocate with Transgender, Nonbinary, and Intersex Communities; The COVID-19 Pandemic: Justice. Healing. Courage.
Two Responsive Resolutions passed. Responsive resolutions are responses to reports made during GA; they are not binding, but they represent strong feedback and input of the assembled congregations.
The two resolutions passed were: Article II Responsive Resolution: Include Systemic Anti-Racism in Principles; and Divestment Responsive Resolution: Creating a More Just Future Through Divesting from Pipelines and Investing in Young People.
PDFs of all above statements and documents are available online here.
Finally, there was one contested UUA Board election; Rev. Sam Trumbore was elected to the contested position. The other positions on the Board, as well as Financial Advisor and the positions on the Commission on Appraisal, the General Assembly Planning Committee, and the Nominating Committee, were all uncontested.
The Church of the Larger Fellowship had the pleasure of kicking-off the General Assembly Banner Parade, you can watch a recording of that here.
Public worship services and sessions from the conference are available here.
For those who are able to join, we hope to see you in-person next year!
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