Thanks to Nick Welsh, the secret of the Unitarian political machine is out [Angry Poodle Barbecue, “Bark Not, Want Not,” 11/12/09]. Our Unitarian mayors, Sheila Lodge, Harriet Miller, and Marty Blum, have reflected a fundamental Unitarian belief by living their values in community service. And they join a long list of famous political leaders in the U.S. from John Adams to Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Adlai Stevenson-Unitarians all. We believe in social responsibility and that all people have an equal claim to life, liberty, and justice be they libertarians, liberals, conservatives, or even newspaper columnists. - Don Bushnell
Outing Unitarians
Thursday, November 19, 2009

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Not to mention Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Clarence Darrow, Henry Steele Commager, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Julia Ward Howe, Amy and James Russell Lowell, Louisa May Alcott, Susan B, Anthony, Dorothea Dix, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Kurt Vonnegut, W.C. Williams, Sylvia Plath, Carl Sandburg, etc, etc etc--politicians, writers, social reformers.
You could call the Declaration of Independence a Unitarian document.
mtndriver (anonymous profile)
November 20, 2009 at 10:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)