<div dir="ltr"><table cellpadding="0" class="gmail-cf gmail-An" id="gmail-undefined" style="width:1158px;table-layout:fixed;border-spacing:0px"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-Ap" style="vertical-align:top;width:1158px;height:100px"><div id="gmail-:zz" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au" style="border-radius:1px;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 0px 16px;zoom:1;border:0px;margin:0px"><div class="gmail-aO7" style="position: relative;"></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Dear Members and Friends,<div><br></div><div>You may have received this email from Ted this morning. It was meant for me.</div><div>Some of us were concerned about the fact that there is only one candidate for president of the UUA. I suggested that we send a letter, not from the entire congregation, but only those who wished to sign it, expressing our concerns. I hated to remain silent.</div><div>I asked Ted to draft a letter and then I added a page for signatures. I will seek to obtain signatures tomorrow before the service and at coffee hour. I wanted you to have a chance to read it and give it some thought before tomorrow.</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Nancy Luthy</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">The news that there is only one candidate to vote for in the election for president of the Unitarian Universalist Association is disturbing. We are becoming more like North Koreans rallying around the Dear Leader than Americans in a town meeting. There is a legitimate difference of opinion among UU’s about whether “anti-racism” and fighting “white supremacist ideology” should be such a central focus of our religious life, but people who raise the question risk being demonized as racists and pushed out of the UUA. If we are to rebuild and strengthen our denomination, recruiting young families has to be a top priority. The intense focus on racial issues does not seem to be helping, we remain one of the whitest denominations in America. Religious Education enrollments continue to decline. It is unfortunate that the forthcoming UUA election does not provide an opportunity for a reconsideration of policies that, to mimic the title of the book that is the UUA “common read,” may have produced more Mistakes than Miracles.</span></div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/vECBlDRVBI4IaqtGp230WDirxPfSuT8S4u12YNfNAcOGyuTS69m7BYW8EJJl8p9gMAsm3w3hH02tUxrfhxwippJ2tr0pSsgxO9rLJRgaUAiJCJFs7f5kzb7On-7vODXQyNU9vgoMp3BJuihPS7HTs2U" width="624" height="368" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px"></div><br></div></div>
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