tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18473139.post113803482677081196..comments2024-01-05T07:45:09.428-05:00Comments on The Emerson Avenger: Another Warning Shot Across The Bows of the U*U Ship of Fools as captained by UUA President Bill Sinkford. . .Robin Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18473139.post-1138122338297511062006-01-24T12:05:00.000-05:002006-01-24T12:05:00.000-05:00Note: About an hour or so ago at 10:40ish a.m. I h...Note: About an hour or so ago at 10:40ish a.m. I had a brief telephone conversation with Presidet Sinkford's new assistant Julie Shaw. I made a follow-up call to see if she had relayed my message of yesterday. She assured me that she had indeed relayed the message that I expect to hear from President Sinkford in person on the phone by the end of this week and that if President Sinkford fails or refuses to speak with me that there will be consequences for such failure or refusal to enter into dialogue in an effort to responsibly deal with the injustices, abuses and hypocrisy that I have brought to his attention.<BR/><BR/>Indrax here is my answer to your question in fairly general terms. The specifics of my goals are open to some negotiation once UUA President Bill Sinkford and other UUs in positions of influence and responsibility start practicing what they preach and genuinely treat me with somen respect and dignity, to say nothing of "begin again in love" with me. . . by responsibly opening their presently quite obstinately closed lines of communication. . . President Bill Sinkford is by no means the only UU to fail or more likely refuse to enter into dialogue with me in an effort to resolve the current state of conflict. Montreal Unitarians, including interim minister Rev. Peter Boulatta, have been repeatedly invited to enter into dialogue with me but, like President Sinkford, they have not even had the courtesy to acknowledge my emails and phone calls. . .<BR/><BR/>Herewith my "rambling" response to your question, "What are your goals?" -<BR/><BR/>Genuine restorative justice, genuine equity and genuine compassion for me and other people who have suffered insult or injury or both as a result of UU injustices, abuses and hypocrisy, especially on the part of UU clergy and other top level UU leaders. I expect a genuinely just resolution of the conflict I am involved in that started well over a decade ago, one that includes clear and unequivocal acknowledgment of the failure of the UUA, and its aptly named Ministerial Fellowship Committee. . . to respond in responsibility to my legitimate grievances when I first aired them in February of 1996. <BR/><BR/>I expect a formal apology from the UUA to be delivered to me by President Sinkford. I expect negligent MFC officials to face accountability. I expect the Rev. Ray Drennan and the Unitarian Church of Montreal to face "declarations of condemnation" as it were for their well documented flaunting of UU principles and ideals etc. <BR/>I also expect the UUA, under some genuine leadership by UUA President Bill Sinkford, to formally and publicly acknowledge the culture of censorship and suppression of criticism and dissent that currently pervades the UUA and the greater UU religious community and takes immediate steps to end all internal censorship and suppression of dissent so that UU propaganda about UUs being defenders of freedom of speech and civil liberties etc. is no longer just a lot of stunningly hypocritical U*U BS. <BR/><BR/>In short I expect the UUA and the greater UU religious community to seriously examine their apparently neglected and even atrophied consciences and responsibly deal with any and all UU injustices, abuses and hypocrisy etc. that need to be dealt with, especially those injustices and abuses that have been neglected or denied for years and even decades. <BR/><BR/>Needless to say I had wanted to be able to present my proposal for World Day of Conscience to UUA President Bill Sinkford in as positive a manner as possible, however his steadfast sincere ignorance and complicit silence in response to my recent emails and phone calls, as well as his now glaringly obvious hypocrisy in publicly proclaiming that "Unitarian Universalists have always honored our commitment to uphold civil liberties," when he knows perfectly well that this brazen assertion does not stand up to any serious scrutiny of how UUs have actually behaved towards me and other people in their pathological censorship and suppression of legitimate criticism and dissent, even to the extemely misguided attempts to criminalize my peaceful public protest. . . makes it difficult to impossible for me to do so. <BR/><BR/>I have been very patient with President Sinkford, more patient than I should have been, but my patience with him is pretty much at an end. If he continues to fail or refuse to respond in genuine responsibility to what he once quite correctly described as my "obviously deep concerns" about the diverse UU injustices, abuses and hypocrisy that I have brought to his and other UUs' attention, especially the anti-religious intolerance that still makes UU congregations far from genuinely welcoming to God believing people he will come to deeply regret it. By all rights he already should deeply regret his negligence because much of the criticism that I have posted to the internet in the last several years could have been avoided or at least considerably diminished if he had shown some leadership and taken steps to ensure that my "obviously deep concerns" were not blown off by the MFC and UUA Trustees in 2002, to say nothing of a year or two earlier since he was certainly made aware of my concerns about anti-religious intolerance an MFC negligence in response to abuive clergy misconduct of various kinds during his UUA Presidential election campaign against former MFC Director Rev. Diane Miller.Robin Edgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18473139.post-1138081851039223072006-01-24T00:50:00.000-05:002006-01-24T00:50:00.000-05:00Robin,What are your goals?Robin,<BR/>What are your goals?indraxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05077014748902924745noreply@blogger.com