Toby's Political Diary - Do We Have Time for This??

"Secondly, politics can be integrated into other community activities. Although I am a jew, I have a mixed marriage, and my wife and I have brought up our kids as jewish at home, and in the local Unitarian church in our community. I like our neighborhood church very much, because within the 200 to 300 families who are part of that community, there is solid support for activism. For example, one of the main focus areas of the national UU church this year is defending civil liberties. This means that my participation in the church is supportive, not outside of, political activism."

And this why UU's rule.  My parents, both raised Baptist chose to raise my sister and I in this slightly more progressive church.  I'm very grateful to them for this.  However, I am a bit disturbed (or more accurately, confused) over the church's reaction to 9/11.   I suppose it is difficult to find "The inherent worth and dignity of every person" in a world this messed up, but I guess thats the challenge.  I like to think of it as a thinking person's religion.  And if it weren't for UUism, who knows, we might not have had a Web to browse.