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Saturday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch features a story about the General Assembly: “‘Proudly liberal’ Unitarians gather here” (6.24.06). A few key passages from the story:
“It's a joyful, exuberant, spirited gathering of people of faith who are not ashamed to be called religious liberals in an era when liberal is considered by many to be a dirty word,” said the Rev. Suzanne Meyer, minister of the First Unitarian Church of St. Louis. “We are proudly religious and proudly liberal.” . . .
The Rev. William Sinkford, elected president of the association in 2001, says “it's very important to me and to the association to offer an alternative religious voice in the public square.”
“The public square has been dominated for too long by the voice of the fundamentalist religious right,” he said.
“Although they have an absolute right to have their voice present, we don't want theirs to be the only religious voice that's in public discourse on important matters of the day. We want to offer our liberal religious point of view in the public square so that the discourse is more complete.”