Last post on the UUA General Assembly.
The UUA is firmly on the side of same-sex marriage.
Human Rights and Peace The UUA wants the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be the basis for building peaceful relations among nations. This sounds good on the surface, except for one thing: the United Nations cannot enforce them, nor is it even trying to. The United Nations, by trying to avoid war at all costs, is actually supporting tyrannical regimes which have no intention of abiding by this Declaration.
One other thing about rights: the Declaration includes several items, such as Social Security, health care, and education, which involve economic transactions between individuals. This is a radical departure from the view of rights held by our American founders, who believed that rights were what you were given by your Creator, and did not depend in any way on the taxation of other people.
Also, the UUA has come out with a Statement of Conscience on Economic Globalization
Here's the summary:
Economic globalization has helped countless people attain higher standards of living. It has also marginalized and impoverished innumerable others and has resulted in environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources. Economic globalization brings many benefits, but its benefits have been inequitably distributed and have not reached many ordinary people around the world. Seeing the world as an interconnected web challenges us to turn from self-serving individualism toward a relational sense of ourselves in a global community of all living things, and toward practices that help create economic structures designed to serve the common good. We are called to bring our Unitarian Universalist principles to our understanding of economic globalization and to help mitigate its adverse effects.
This is a much less liberal statement than the one they were throwing around last year, apparently there are still some moderates hanging around in the UUA. However there are a few myths repeated in this summary which deserve fisking.
It has also marginalized and impoverished innumerable others and has resulted in environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources.
The claims of environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources are not true. In fact, environmental degradation and natural resource depletion are greatest in those countries which do not have free economies.
Seeing the world as an interconnected web challenges us to turn from self-serving individualism toward a relational sense of ourselves in a global community of all living things, and toward practices that help create economic structures designed to serve the common good.
Yeah, grand goals these UUs claim, as did every socialist tyrant of the last hundred years, from Lenin and Hitler to Castro and Mugabe. Grand goals to create a utopian society, serving the common good, and killing about a hundred million people in the process, and quashing the hopes and dreams of innumerable others. The best way to serve the common good is to let each individual determine for themselves how to do so.