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Table of Contents
UUA General
Assembly 2003
District
President’s Column/Fall Leadership Conference
Qiyamah’s
Corner
Ministerial
Matters
Annual Meeting
Focuses on Membership, Annual Meeting Awards and Elections
Lifespan
REflections
TJD District
Staff Calendars
Your Wild(e)
Trustees Column
Does Your
Congregation Want to Be More Family Friendly?
New Fair
Compensation Guidelines Will be Available at GA; CLF Pen Pals
Accepting
Allies News/Study Action Issues at GA/New Asian Pacific Islander
Caucus
TJ District
Fair Share
Consulting
Ministry
Chalice
Lighter Grant Made/Western Carolinas Cluster Forms
Congregations
Focus Deeply on War / TJD Welcomes New Congregation / District Office Has
New Sign
Welcome to
Our New DREs / UUs Supporting National Public Radio / UUA President
Spotted in TJ District
On the
Journey Toward Wholeness / DRUUMM Events at GA
District
Calendar
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Accepting Allies News
From TJD’s Welcoming/GLBT Committee
*McGill Baptist Church in Concord NC was expelled from the local Baptist association because they baptized two gay men.
*Our state legislature defeated a bill to extend the NC anti-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation.
*Local groups of Christian ministers helped defeat a Durham county and city of Charlotte plans to offer domestic partner benefits.
*Senator Rick Sentorum of PA likened gays to practitioners of incest, bigamy, polygamy, and beastiality.
All these events affect our GLBT members, but we haven't read of any UU responses. It seems to me that these present opportunities for us to make our views known and show how "welcoming" we really are.
On May 15, Rev. Charlie Davis of the UU Fellowship of Winston-Salem will take part in a panel discussion called Divine Intervention that is being sponsored by the Triad Guild - a GLBT business association.
The UU Fellowship of Winston-Salem is hosting a Gay Pride Weekend. beginning with a Pot Luck Dinner on Friday evening June 6, at 6:30 PM at the Fellowship located at 4055 Robinhood Road in Winston-Salem. Participants may purchase a lunch or bring their own to a Family Picnic, June 7, from noon to 3PM, and then join the fun at “The Prom You Never Had” from 8PM to midnight at the Fellowship. The weekend will end with our Annual Gay Pride Service where the sermon will be "Sticks and Stones," delivered by Frank Benedetti.
Frank Benedetti and Gary Trowbridge, co-chairs
Study Action Issues for General Assembly
The following is a list of the Study/Action Issues placed on the Congregational Directives for General Assembly Action poll.
- S1 Weapons of Mass Destruction (Unitarian Universalist Meeting of South Berkshire, MA)
- S2 Indigenous Peoples (Delaware UU Fellowship, Delaware, OH )
- S3 Human Rights and Peace (Mass Bay District First Parish Unitarian Universalist, Arlington, MA)
- S4 Factory Farming (First Unitarian Church of Oakland, CA)
- S5 Criminal Justice and Prison Reform (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark, DE)
- S6 Contemporary Slavery (First Unitarian Society of Newton, MA)
- S7 Civil Unions and Same-Sex Marriage (First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus, OH)
- S8 Aging in the Twenty-First Century (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Falmouth, MA)
For more information, and complete text of these Study Action Issues, visit
http://www.uua.org/csw/psaiforta03.htm
New Asian/Pacific Islander Caucus
A/PIC (Asian/Pacific Islander Caucus) is a newly formed organization under the umbrella of DRUUMM (Diverse and Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries) for the purpose of networking with and providing support for all UUs who self-identify as being partly of wholly Asian or Pacific Islander in origin or heritage, including their immediate family members. To find our more about A/PIC, please visit their website at
http://apiuu.org
To join an email discussion and support list, please write to apiuu-general0subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Kok Heong McNaughton
Vice Chair, A/PI Caucus of DRUUMM
email: vicechair@apiuu.org
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