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...Unitarian Universalist, and my Christian denomination believes homosexual people should have the same rights as anyone else. Ministers of my denomination have been performing commitment ceremonies for same-sex couples for years. We are a "creedless faith"; we don't have any texts that tell us what we have to believe, or how we should behave. We do not believe that you can "hate the sin but love the sinner," but that we should love and celebrate every part of each person. We do not believe in the inherent sinfulness of all people; we believe in the inherent dignity...
...Texas) American reported the labor pains of a new denomination: the Unitarian Universalist Association. Meeting separately and simultaneously in Syracuse, N.Y., representatives of the American Unitarian Association (membership: 108,396) and the Universalist Church of America (membership: 68,949) agreed last week to unite. But though neither of the creedless sects officially accepts the divinity of Jesus (except as all men participate in divinity), the Man from Nazareth managed to give them a hard time...
...development of this universal religion in order to break down today's tensions and so forward the sense of world community . . . ¶ We believe in the right of each individual to his own convictions. ¶ We believe that the Unitarian movement should reaffirm its tradition of a creedless church, and begin immediately to create and foster such fellowships of universal religion...
...With these words ex-Governor Robert F. Bradford of Massachusetts last week fanned smoldering embers of discord in his church. The Christian Register, official publication of the American Unitarian Association, had bubbled with controversy over whether the insistently creedless Unitarians should at least bind themselves to a belief in God. But at the 124th annual meeting of the association, in Boston last week, the delegates voted to keep the argument off the floor, at least until next year...
...Washington, D.C. last week, 352 Unitarian ministers and laymen assembled for the eleventh General Conference of their tiny (69,000 members), creedless sect. Dressed according to their fancy, in everything from sporty tweeds to clerical collars, they met in the ivory-paneled auditorium of All Souls' Church for three busy days of resolution-passing...