Our UU congregation will take a stand against gun violence [View all]

Today the minister of our Unitarian Universalist congregation urged us in her sermon to reflect on the issue of gun violence, and to take part in nonviolence working group meetings in the next few weeks. These working groups will come up with actions that we will take.

She reminded us of the moral authority of our UU religious forebears on issues such as abolition, women's suffrage, desegregation, marriage equality and religious freedom. And she talked with us about standing up and exercising that moral authority in response to the horribly mass murder of children and teachers in Newtown, CT and the continued gun violence in this country.

I am glad that we will be doing something to confront this gun sickness on more than an individual level.