tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647562459433740241.post5301053083565876326..comments2023-08-23T08:27:08.039-04:00Comments on UU A Way Of Life: Morning Meditation - Can You Find Your Original Face?David G. Markhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08336565533124142690noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647562459433740241.post-53636790487468786672009-03-14T09:07:00.000-04:002009-03-14T09:07:00.000-04:00So in short, I look forward to the day when "The A...So in short, I look forward to the day when "The Association" which has conveniently "forgotten" its "<A HREF="http://www.uua.org/visitors/6798.shtml" REL="nofollow">original face</A>" actually does "<A HREF="http://www.uua.org/searchoursite.shtml?cx=007175923080295419477%3Acbowmcgn4uu&cof=FORID%3A11&q=%22Choose+love%22&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=go#211" REL="nofollow">choose love</A>" and "stand on the side of love" by actually providing some real and tangible restorative justice for ALL victims of clergy misconduct.Robin Edgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8647562459433740241.post-2512670047895716472009-03-14T08:58:00.000-04:002009-03-14T08:58:00.000-04:00"When you grow up in a dysfunctional family you le..."When you grow up in a dysfunctional family you learn all kinds of dysfunctional stuff." etc. etc.<BR/><BR/>And then you end up going to a dysfunctional Unitarian*Universalist "Church" presided over by some pretty damned dysfunctional people. . . <BR/><BR/>Sorry about that blunt "snark" David but you know and I know that it is solidly founded on fact. I am, still stunned by just how dysfunctional some individual U*U "churches" can be and just how dysfunctional the UUA is, especially when it comes to dealing with clergy misconduct in am manner that actually honors and upholds U*U principles rather than making a total mockery of them. Here are some words from the UUA's increasingly irrelevant <A HREF="http://www.uua.org/leaders/leaderslibrary/restorativejustice/23865.shtml" REL="nofollow">official apology</A> to victims of clergy sexual misconduct, which was delivered at the 2000 UUA GA in Nashville Tennessee the better part of a decade ago -<BR/><BR/>"Let me say this as simply and unequivocally as I know how: the Association has largely failed the people most hurt by sexual misconduct, the victims and survivors. Other denominations have done better. These brave and bruised people have, more often than not I suspect, been left lonely, confused, afraid, angry and betrayed. Un-ministered to. What I feel about this is not so much guilt, I guess, as great sorrow and regret. I am profoundly sorry. And I pledge that this gap, this failure, will be remedied." <BR/><BR/>Quite regrettably that pledge to remedy those failures has not been honored and upheld aka lived up to, and the UUA has done virtually nothing to provide any real and tangible restorative justice to victims of clergy sexual misconduct (to say nothing of non-sexual forms of clergy misconduct) if I am to believe well informed people "in the know" as well as my own eyes. "The Association" (<A HREF="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=3Go&q=Rev.+Diane+Miller+said+%22The+UUA+is+a+business+and+NOT+a+religion%22&btnG=Search&meta=" REL="nofollow">why does the CIA come to mind?</A>) continues to largely fail the victims of ALL forms of clergy misconduct, not only clergy sexual misconduct. Victims of clergy misconduct are still more often than not *I* have very reasonable grounds to suspect, left lonely and/or confused and/or afraid and/or angry and/or betrayed by their fellow U*Us. I can't help but wonder when the dysfunctional "Association" in Boston will finally get around to genuinely ministering to these un-ministered to people. It seems abundantly clear that it will not be on UUA President Bill Sinkford's watch. . .Robin Edgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.com