At the 2010 General Assembly in Minneapolis, delegates voted for “Immigration as a Moral Issue” for the congregational study action issue (CSAI) for 2010-2014. For more information about the background and focus of this CSAI, please visit the UUA’s Commission on Social Witness website at http://www.uua.org/socialjustice/issuesprocess/.
As such, the focus of our church’s denominational affairs email list denom@uulosalamos.org will be switching from Ethical Eating (the last CSAI) to this one. You can subscribe to this email list and receive announcements, articles of interest, updates, and proposed congregational action plans (like a book discussion, for example), by sending an email to majordomo@uulosalamos.org with a simple command in the body of text: subscribe denom.
If you are already subscribed and would like to remove yourself, you can do the same but with a different command line: unsubscribe denom.
The delegates also voted on the proposed business resolution to hold the first Social Justice General Assembly in Phoenix in 2012 instead of a regular General Assembly. There has been strong support to hold General Assembly every other year instead of annually, so this resolution could well be moving us into that direction.
Rev. John and I answered the call to action for a demonstration on July 29th in Phoenix to protest SB1070. We’ll have more to share with you during the Sunday morning service on August 29th. Some of our General Assembly delegates will be presenting a report during the Forum hour on Ingathering Sunday, September 12th. They will also have more to say about denominational affairs.
