When my church (sic) was having minister interviews to fill our vacancy, I was told by several about missions they were going to implement (by UUA/UUMA training).
1. Sweep out the deadwood.
2. Fire everyone in a leadership role.
3. Remove disruptive members.
4. Stop ongoing programs.
...and then start over.
I visited their training curriculum to confirm this training...it was there in black and white.
In other situations, this amounts to ethnic cleansing.
Interesting article. It seems the UUA, China and the USA govt have much in common. Receive money from the Feds for something and you are soon beholden to the Federal Government. Try to leave and see what happens to the money. Or take a gander at the Belt and Road initiative of China. Do what they ask or lose the money for the country’s projects. It’s sad that local ministers and congregants find themselves tied to a set of beliefs handed down from on high that discourages free unfettered thought, or else! Why should LGBTQ+ be a topic of conversation at any level in the UU or UUA? What does that particular subject have anything to do with learning the best way to live from all religions and walks of life? IMHO there is a world of difference between welcoming all walks of life and demanding them to be religiously and politically pushed to the forefront as a plank to be reckoned with. Eventually the congregants will tire of the absurdness and slowly pull away and eventually leave. In fact, leave the politics to politicians and return to the philosophy of religion if the UU wants to survive. I suspect many paid ministers are afraid to state the obvious!
I have come to realize that the concept of “being trans from birth” is not any kind of diagnosable condition; it’s very much a contested idea which leaders in our denomination have been pushing as fact, casting any dissent as motivated by bigotry.
But I know dissenting UUs who are motivated by love, not bigotry.
Another way to view “trans” is that it’s something a person does, not something a person is. The story that a person can be “born in the wrong body” might be better understood as a metaphor, not as literal truth—and yet the notion of so-called “transgender children” (a term appearing in the “landmark statement” issued last fall by UUA President Betancourt, along with ten other religious leaders) goes hand-in-hand with the belief that someone is “in the wrong body,” or that humans can choose what sex they are—which is demonstrably false.
It’s hard to trust the current UUA president’s judgment on this issue. I worry that she is invested in this set of beliefs, and it will be very difficult for her to scrutinize them, in part because of who her spouse is—Sam Ames, formerly Samantha Ames, a female who has masculinized with the use of testosterone.
It needs to be okay to disagree on “gender identity”-related topics. Furthermore, the sex ed curricula we offer needs to be sex-affirming—by which I mean it should acknowledge the reality of sex as an evolved reproductive category, and it should not spread modern-day science-denialism.
Trans is a psychotic delusion. Yes, some person have a condition termed "gender dysphoria", a feeling of discomfort with the sex of conception. This is not because they were "born in the wrong body". It is a delusion. Even worse, it is a delusion which is also a "social hysteria", like the teen issue of the witchcraft illusion in Salem, the tic epidemic, and many other social hysterias. These are promoted and spread thru the internet.
The UUA promotes the deranged notion that some persons are born in the wrong body. This leads to medical mutilation due to confusion, which is wrong and barbaric. The OWL program pushes gay and trans views and deliberately makes normal children feel uncomfortable in the normality. My own daughter told me this recently. I thought OWL was good but no longer recommend it.
Many UUs now resist this deranged psychotic delusion. We oppose the perversion of normal children via the cruel delusion of trans.
When my church (sic) was having minister interviews to fill our vacancy, I was told by several about missions they were going to implement (by UUA/UUMA training).
1. Sweep out the deadwood.
2. Fire everyone in a leadership role.
3. Remove disruptive members.
4. Stop ongoing programs.
...and then start over.
I visited their training curriculum to confirm this training...it was there in black and white.
In other situations, this amounts to ethnic cleansing.
So true David. And for any Canadians thinking 'That is not the Canadian Unitarian Council" don't delude yourself.
When the CUC and UUA got divorced we got "joint custody" of the Ministers - they are still all in the UUMA.
Here is the what to expect form Ministers trained to serve UU congregations
"Starr King’s M.Div. degree program aims to prepare spiritual leaders with the knowledge, professional skill, and personal capacities to:
Counter oppressions
Create just and sustainable communities
Call forth compassion, wholeness, and liberation
Cultivate multi-religious life and learning
https://www.sksm.edu/academics/degree-programs/master-of-divinity
No mention of growth, leadership, spiritual development, church management, preaching etc.
Sigh.......
Rev. Munro Sickafoose, who went to Starr King, wrote that UUs would be surprised at how little teaching there was about "how to be a minister."
Interesting article. It seems the UUA, China and the USA govt have much in common. Receive money from the Feds for something and you are soon beholden to the Federal Government. Try to leave and see what happens to the money. Or take a gander at the Belt and Road initiative of China. Do what they ask or lose the money for the country’s projects. It’s sad that local ministers and congregants find themselves tied to a set of beliefs handed down from on high that discourages free unfettered thought, or else! Why should LGBTQ+ be a topic of conversation at any level in the UU or UUA? What does that particular subject have anything to do with learning the best way to live from all religions and walks of life? IMHO there is a world of difference between welcoming all walks of life and demanding them to be religiously and politically pushed to the forefront as a plank to be reckoned with. Eventually the congregants will tire of the absurdness and slowly pull away and eventually leave. In fact, leave the politics to politicians and return to the philosophy of religion if the UU wants to survive. I suspect many paid ministers are afraid to state the obvious!
Thank you for writing this letter.
I have come to realize that the concept of “being trans from birth” is not any kind of diagnosable condition; it’s very much a contested idea which leaders in our denomination have been pushing as fact, casting any dissent as motivated by bigotry.
But I know dissenting UUs who are motivated by love, not bigotry.
Another way to view “trans” is that it’s something a person does, not something a person is. The story that a person can be “born in the wrong body” might be better understood as a metaphor, not as literal truth—and yet the notion of so-called “transgender children” (a term appearing in the “landmark statement” issued last fall by UUA President Betancourt, along with ten other religious leaders) goes hand-in-hand with the belief that someone is “in the wrong body,” or that humans can choose what sex they are—which is demonstrably false.
It’s hard to trust the current UUA president’s judgment on this issue. I worry that she is invested in this set of beliefs, and it will be very difficult for her to scrutinize them, in part because of who her spouse is—Sam Ames, formerly Samantha Ames, a female who has masculinized with the use of testosterone.
It needs to be okay to disagree on “gender identity”-related topics. Furthermore, the sex ed curricula we offer needs to be sex-affirming—by which I mean it should acknowledge the reality of sex as an evolved reproductive category, and it should not spread modern-day science-denialism.
Here’s an opportunity to influence RE curricula. Maybe you should apply, David?? https://www.uua.org/files/2026-04/Woven%20Faith%20Classroom%20RFP.pdf
Trans is a psychotic delusion. Yes, some person have a condition termed "gender dysphoria", a feeling of discomfort with the sex of conception. This is not because they were "born in the wrong body". It is a delusion. Even worse, it is a delusion which is also a "social hysteria", like the teen issue of the witchcraft illusion in Salem, the tic epidemic, and many other social hysterias. These are promoted and spread thru the internet.
The UUA promotes the deranged notion that some persons are born in the wrong body. This leads to medical mutilation due to confusion, which is wrong and barbaric. The OWL program pushes gay and trans views and deliberately makes normal children feel uncomfortable in the normality. My own daughter told me this recently. I thought OWL was good but no longer recommend it.
Many UUs now resist this deranged psychotic delusion. We oppose the perversion of normal children via the cruel delusion of trans.