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Insert a new section after existing Principles and before existing Sources:
Types of Action. Accordingly, members
promise to intentionally apply these principles in personal maturation processes
and in such positions of institutional leadership as we may come to hold within
and among congregations, and in the Association. These principles motivate applications in
these kinds of ways:
1. Respect the right of all persons to flourish with dignity and worthiness and to use time, wisdom, and resources to build and sustain fully inclusive communities;
2. Grow as individuals spiritually and ethically;
3. Discern whether our proposed actions are consistent with the birthrights and best self-determined identities of everyone, whether Unitarian Universalist or other;
4. Assess the likely side effects of our proposed actions whether intended or not, and both short term and long term on all affected people, ourselves included;
5. Dismantle in ourselves and our institutions abuses of power rooted in unjust ideas of large-group superiority based on age, national origin, physical challenge, racial or ethnic identity, religion, sexual preference, or socio-economic status;
6. Share, freely and compassionately, our faith, presence, and resources to connect with one another in relationships of interdependence and mutuality; and
7. Create and nurture care and respect for our natural environment, paying attention to consequences of actions done on our behalf, and to actions that promise to repair harm and damaged relationships, thereby honoring our evolving Earth.