[JTWNews] Winds of Change

[Susan Leslie]

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS WITNESS FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE, EQUALITY IN
MARRIAGE, PEACE DURING 2006 ELECTION SEASON

The 2006 midterm elections blew winds of change through the U.S.
Congress and the President's Cabinet, but for people of faith across the
country, the elections were about issues of human dignity and civility.
Unitarian Universalists responded to the call for action and witness as
they worked for peace, marriage equality (and against so-called "Defense
of Marriage" state amendments), and worker justice in the days leading
up to the election. 

While the results weren't always what they hoped for, members of
congregations involved in social witness on key issues -- raising the
minimum wage, ending the war, and supporting same sex marriage -- made
their voices heard in the media and in their communities while finding
new synergies with other Unitarian Universalist congregations in their
states. Many congregations helped register new voters, participated in
Get-Out-the-Vote drives, and poll watching.

Read this special addition of JTW-News on
http://www.uua.org/news/2006/061113_elections.html to learn what UUs
from Charlottesville VA to Bowling Green Kentucky to Madison WI and the
UU Legislative Ministry in CA did to raise our religious values during
this electoral season and to strengthen coalitions supporting these
justice issues.  
  
 

Susan Leslie
Director for Congregational Advocacy and Witness
Unitarian Universalist Association
25 Beacon Street, Boston MA  02108
(617) 948-4607; sleslie at uua.org
www.uua.org/justice
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