Philocrites

New and improved Principles and Purposes?

by Philocrites

While I've been offline for the last several weeks — moving to a new apartment and falling into radio silence as Verizon failed repeatedly to get our phone line and Internet connection up and running — the UUA Commission on Appraisal has released its draft revision of the Unitarian Universalist Association's bylaw "Article II," better known as the "Principles and Purposes." This revision is the culmination of two years of work by the Commission, which took up a mandatory review of Article II when the Board of Trustees realized, several years late, that a review was overdue. Warren Ross, who wrote about the origins and popularity of the current Seven Principles for UU World back in 2000, has been reporting on the Commission's revision process. Here's his news story about the text the Commission released on September 1.

The Commission is seeking feedback about its draft by October 16. (Update 9.17.08: Link updated.) After that time, they'll refine the draft and submit it to the Board. After board approval, the text will then go to the 2009 General Assembly for a preliminary vote. Unless a majority of delegates nixes the revision next June in Salt Lake City, or unless at least one-third of delegates dislikes the final text in 2010 in Minneapolis, the new language will take effect.

You can see how bloggers have responded to the draft via the links Kenneth Sutton collected for UU World's "Interdependent Web" blog two weeks ago; this past week, I rounded up blog reactions to the draft's use of the phrase "cultural misappropriation" in its Sources section.

Do you like the revised text? Have you given feedback to the Commission yet?

Copyright © 2008 by Philocrites | Posted 15 September 2008 at 8:44 AM

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