Kristen Cox Roby UU World Executive Editor And Unitarian Universalist Child Sex Abuse Cover-Up Legal Bullying - What's The Connection?

In a recent UU World article arising out of the recent firing of Jimmy Kimmel by ABC headlined ‘Transparency and Truth Are Not Optional’: Why Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Threatens Free Expression:

UU World magazine executive editor Kristen Cox Roby writes:

"As Unitarian Universalists, we believe in the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. We covenant to learn, to question, to dissent. To see a comedian silenced under government threat should enrage us, not because we all agree with Jimmy Kimmel, but because democracy depends on protecting voices that those in power seek to silence."

And:

"Our Association has a long tradition of speaking out for the freedom of dissent. A 1968 resolution put it plainly: to remain silent while violence and abuse continue is to share responsibility for the destruction of one of the most precious features of our heritage, the right to speak our conscience freely."

She concludes by saying:

"Even as the lights go dark on one late-night stage, even as so much remains broken in our country and our world, I am heartened and humbled to know that Unitarian Universalists will keep shining our light for democracy, truth, and freedom of expression."

Needless to say, these assertions about Unitarian Universalists being great champions of freedom of expression are open to considerable question, as are other questionable claims made by UU World Executive Editor Kristen Cox Roby in her problematic "opinion editorial" as it were.

How can Kristin Cox Roby credibly claim that "independent, values-driven journalism. . . still flourishes here within Unitarian Universalism" when the independence of the UU World magazine from the UUA administration has been open to question for decades, and the UU World magazine only publishes twice a year now instead of being a quarterly publication in the not so distant past?

Does the UU World really remain "a place where truth can still be spoken, celebrated, and shared", when it does not allow opposing opinions to be published in it, and no longer publishes any letters to the editor at all?

Unitarians and Universalists had centuries old traditions of opposing blasphemy laws that the Rev. Dr. Peter Morales UUA administration ignominiously terminated in June 2012 by having Yours Truly served with an arrogant and aggressive cease and desist demand letter threatening me with criminal prosecution for blasphemous libel for blogging about "such despicable crimes as pedophilia and rape" most certainly committed by "certain Unitarian Universalist ministers". 

In light of this egregious UUA child sex abuse cover-up legal bullying that sought to abusively misuse Canada's archaic and now repealed blasphemy law to "memory hole" The Emerson Avenger blog posts that told, and still tell. . . the readily verifiable truth about disgusting sex crimes committed against teenagers, and even preteen children, by pedophile*rapist Unitarian Universalists, and other evidence of UUA censorship and suppression of legitimate public criticism, how can the UUA and Unitarian Universalists more generally pretend to be "speaking out for the freedom of dissent" in the 21st century?


The last time I checked, and I checked quite recently. . . the violence of child sex abuse committed by UUA clergy and Religious Educators etc. continues in the 21st century, but a whole lot of Unitarian Universalists, including dozens of top-level UUA leaders and hundreds of Unitarian Universalist ministers aka UUA clergy, not only maintain complicit silence about child sex abuse, to say nothing of less serious sexual misconduct, but actively seek to conceal sexual abuse and other U*U injustices and abuses by using various forms of censorship and suppression of free expression.

When will Unitarian Universalists in general, and UUA leaders in particular, cease and desist from shamelessly trying to conceal the truth by engaging in various forms of censorship and suppression of my own and other people's freedom of expression?

 

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