{"id":10194,"date":"2023-04-01T23:14:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T03:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10194"},"modified":"2023-04-01T23:15:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T03:15:04","slug":"controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/04\/controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the one hand, I&#8217;m not a big fan of the proposed revision to Article II of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) bylaws. On the other hand, the current UUA &#8220;Seven Principles&#8221; sound old and fusty, like they were written forty years ago (oh wait, they <em>were<\/em> written forty years ago). I&#8217;m the opposite of the stupid old mule paralyzed between two bales of hay that appear equally appealing, I&#8217;m like the stupid old mule paralyzed between two bales of hay that smell equally <em>un<\/em>appealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It appears that some amount of controversy is emerging about the proposed Article II revision. Our congregation here in Cohasset received an email which says in part: &#8220;A group of concerned UUs from across the county have created a website (www.savethe7principles.org) to share our analysis of this proposal and why we oppose it.&#8221; This email had only twenty names signed to it, so I guess it&#8217;s not a large movement. Nevertheless, we definitely don&#8217;t have the kind of consensus in 2023 that we had for the 1983-5 revision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just hope the Article II revision doesn&#8217;t turn into an extended &#8220;discussion&#8221; at General Assembly. I&#8217;m probably going to be a delegate this year, and I find extended arguments incredibly frustrating. On the other hand, I dislike it even more when honest conversation gets cut short. Either way, I have a feeling this is going to be a testy and tiresome General Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, I&#8217;m not a big fan of the proposed revision to Article II of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) bylaws. On the other hand, the current UUA &#8220;Seven Principles&#8221; sound old and fusty, like they were written forty years ago (oh wait, they were written forty years ago). I&#8217;m the opposite of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/04\/controversy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Controversy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[917],"class_list":["post-10194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uua-politics","tag-uuaga2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10197,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions\/10197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}