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Growing Vital Religious Communities In Canada
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Sexual Diversity Issues
YES!
We
perform same-sex marriages across Canada
Click here to find a congregation
Learn more about
Unitarians stance on Equal Marriage Rights
Click Here
for a List of Welcoming Congregations
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Art Brewer leading a Welcoming Congregation
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Vision Statement
That all Canadian Unitarian Universalist
congregations and organizations concretely reach out to and
support communities who may be experiencing oppression based on
their gender and/or sexual identities.
Mission Statement
The Group seeks to uphold Unitarian Universalist
Principles in order to assist and support the safe and equitable
representation and inclusion of sexual and gender minorities and
their supporters in Canadian Unitarian Universalist congregations
by offering education, representation, political action, and
historical preservation.
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A Note About
the Word "Queer" from the The Gender and Sexual Diversity Monitoring
Group
This monitoring group works to support gender and sexual minorities
which have been identified with many labels, such as bisexual, gay,
lesbian, and transgender (abbreviated as B/G/L/T), transsexual,
intersex, two-spirited, third gender, questioning, and more terms
not listed here. Some people use the word "queer" as a short
form way of encompassing this broad range of minorities, and many
individuals use it to identify themselves. We use it in our
URL. We acknowledge that the word is not universally accepted (even
within the B/G/L/T community), and we do not intend to alienate or
insult anyone by our use of the word. However, we believe that words
that were once used as insults lose their power when used in a
positive way by the persons whom they were meant to degrade. |
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Previous Resolutions |
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Letter to the Vatican
Regarding the Pope's Christmas Message |
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Letter to The Honourable Peter MacKay concerning the reported
systematic killings and imprisonment of gay men and teens in
Iraq and Iran. |
Pride Resources
We welcome original material by Canadian Unitarians to add
to this resource section.
Presentation with permission to adapt appropriate for a Sunday
Worship
Service: Straight from the
HeartUnitarians across Canada participate in
Pride events.
This year, International Day Against Homophobia falls on our
national conference weekend.
Here are some links to our congregations' participation in
Pride and IDAHO.
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Welcoming Congregations in Canada |
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Monitoring
Group Members |
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Links
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Press
Release: Rainbow Connection Banner |
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Canadian UU Ministers'
Letter of Collegial Support to the Anglican Bishops of
Canada |
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Previous Press Releases and
Material |
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"Our" Famous Five! |
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Photos of the "Calgary Five" (Chris, Sanford, Erin, Cora
and Emily) posing
with the statue of the Famous Five in Ottawa on Parliament Hill.
Learn more about these five youth from the Unitarian Church of
Calgary and
their Pride Rainbow Project by clicking here (www.priderainbowproject.com)
Inaugurated on October 18, 2000, this monument entitled "Women are
Persons!" is a tribute to Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Emily
Murphy, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards. Known as the
Famous Five, these women won the "Persons" Case, a 1929 court
ruling which legally declared women as persons under the British
North America Act and made them eligible for appointment to the
Canadian Senate (To learn more about the "Persons" Case and the
Famous Five, visit the
National Archives
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Eldon Hay, “My Ministry with the Queer community,”
PDF file
mp3 audio
The Unitarian Fellowship, Fredericton, NB, 22 January
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