Oops, one more entry. How could I neglect to mention their 2003 Actions of Immediate Witness?
AIW 1 AmeriCorps
AIW 2 Depleted Uranium Munitions
AIW 3 Global HIV/AIDS
AIW 4 Public Hearings on Iraq
AIW 6 Women's Rights
My comments:
AmeriCorps: a failed program from the start. It doesn't seem to me that it would work for a lot of people. Getting people to volunteer for the same activities that others are sentenced to do involuntarily is kindof self-defeating. Save the money, lower peoples' taxes, and a lot of this stuff would happen anyway without liberals using the taxpayers' wallets to fund their pet projects.
Depleted Uranium Munitions (no comment)
Global HIV/AIDS: a better approach would be programs like Uganda's ABC program, which stresses abstinence, instead of the Planned Parenthood / SIECUS program of making sex as easy and widespread as possible by thrusting condoms into everyone's face and telling them to go out and use them.
Public Hearings on Iraq: the UUA was opposed to the Iraq war, and I bet they already know the results of the public hearing they're looking for. They don't want objective hearings. They want a witch-hunt, just like their spiritual forebears did in Salem so long ago. They're still Puritans at heart, even if the theology has changed.
Women's Rights: drop the belief that the partial-birth-abortion ban is a violation of womens' rights already, it's not true. Anyone who talks about a right to abortion doesn't know what human rights are. I'd also like to know how they come up with the idea that encouraging marriage is a violation of womens' rights, as marriage benefits women and children. Also Title IX is just a quota program which has had its own negative consequences (and I'm sorry to hear that the Bush administration is giving in on this issue)