Study/Action Issues & Process
Upcoming Social Witness Deadlines
Beginning Friday, November 13, congregations will have the opportunity to participate in a number of social witness decisions. (Links will be live on November 13.)
- Vote in the Congregational Poll (closes February 1, 2010)
- Approve placing the Draft Statement of Conscience (SOC) “Peacemaking” on the Final Agenda for General Assembly (GA) 2010
- Select five proposed Congregational Study/Action Issues (CSAIs) (view all proposed CSAIs)
- Submit comments on the Draft SOC "Peacemaking" (preview comment form) (closes February 1, 2010)
- Submit comments on the Draft CSAI "Ethical Eating" (preview comment form) (closes March 1, 2010)
To participate, congregations will need to log in through the Data Services Login for Congregations (available November 13). Log in information cannot be offered by CSW; contact your minister or congregational administrator for login credentials.
For more information, please see:
About the Social Witness Process
The Fifth Principle of Unitarian Universalism affirms and promotes the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process. In keeping with this, the way in which our denomination arrives at consensus on various social issues is by a democratically agreed upon process called the Social Witness Process, named as such because we bear witness to social inequity.
The Social Witness Process is facilitated by the Commission on Social Witness. It currently generates two types of consensus statements, Statements of Conscience, which result from study and action on a selected issue, and Actions of Immediate Witness. For more information, see the Social Witness Process page.
For more information contact socialwitness @ uua.org.
Last updated on Thursday, November 12, 2009.
