Study/Action Issues & Process
Congregational Study/Action Issues & Statements of Conscience
The Current Study/Action Issues (CSAIs) include "Peacemaking," which was adopted in St. Louis, MO, to be the CSAI for 2006-2010, and "Ethical Eating," which was adopted in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, to be the CSAI for 2008-2012.
Congregational delegates will vote on the next possible Study/Action issue during General Assembly of 2010. At that time, they will also vote on whether or not to approve "Peacemaking" as a Statement of Conscience.
Submit your comments on the Peacemaking and Ethical Eating drafts!
- Guide to Voting in the Congregational Poll
- Draft of the Peacemaking Statement of Conscience
- Draft of the Ethical Eating Congregational Study/Action Issue
Actions of Immediate Witness
Actions of Immediate Witness passed at General Assembly 2008 were:
- End Present-day Slavery in the Fields
- Extend the Tax Credit for Wind and Solar Power
- Oppose a U.S. Attack on Iran
- Oppose the Florida and California "Marriage Protection" Initiatives
- Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to $10 in 2010
- Single Payer Health Care
About the Social Witness Process
The Fifth Principle of Unitarian Universalism affirms and promotes the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process. In keeping with this, the way in which our denomination arrives at consensus on various social issues is by a democratically agreed upon process called the Social Witness Process, named as such because we bear witness to social inequity.
The Social Witness Process is facilitated by the Commission on Social Witness. It currently generates two types of consensus statements, Statements of Conscience, which result from study and action on a selected issue, and Actions of Immediate Witness. For more information, see the Social Witness Process page.
Last updated on Friday, November 14, 2008.
