Mother's Day And Unitarian Universalism - What's The Connection?
Can U*Us say Julia Ward Howe?
Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870
Arise then... women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with Our own.
It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.
end quote
In the interest of encouraging Unitarian*Universalists in general, and Unitarian*Universalist women in particular, to responsibly engage in "waging peace" with the dreaded Emerson Avenger I will, for the time being. . . spare Unitarian*Universalists aka U*Us the "less than flattering" hyperlinks to (in)appropriate Google searches and web pages which clearly *demonstrate* how Unitarian*Universalist women of *this* day have repeatedly made a total mockery of the letter and the Spirit of Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation through their "less than peaceful" words and actions.
Oh and I refrained from publicly protesting against diverse U*U injustices, abuses and hypocrisy in front of the self-described Unitarian Church of Montreal today, or attending today's Sunday service at the Lakeshore Unitarian Universalist Congregation so that I *might* share my serious concerns about a certain unmentionable female U*U minister who failed miserably to work towards the great and general interests of peace via the amicable settlement of certain international questions when given the opportunity to do so way back in 2006. . .
Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870
Arise then... women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with Our own.
It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.
end quote
In the interest of encouraging Unitarian*Universalists in general, and Unitarian*Universalist women in particular, to responsibly engage in "waging peace" with the dreaded Emerson Avenger I will, for the time being. . . spare Unitarian*Universalists aka U*Us the "less than flattering" hyperlinks to (in)appropriate Google searches and web pages which clearly *demonstrate* how Unitarian*Universalist women of *this* day have repeatedly made a total mockery of the letter and the Spirit of Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation through their "less than peaceful" words and actions.
Oh and I refrained from publicly protesting against diverse U*U injustices, abuses and hypocrisy in front of the self-described Unitarian Church of Montreal today, or attending today's Sunday service at the Lakeshore Unitarian Universalist Congregation so that I *might* share my serious concerns about a certain unmentionable female U*U minister who failed miserably to work towards the great and general interests of peace via the amicable settlement of certain international questions when given the opportunity to do so way back in 2006. . .
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