I am a Unitarian Universalist, but it wasn’t in till today I was introduced to a very odd Internet phenomenon; http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/08/DDG27BCFLG1.DTL
http://www.uuism.net/uuwiki/index.php?title=Unitarian_Jihad This is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen!
Sibling Howitzer of Warm Humanitarianism
Dang! I really wanted “Sister Meat Cleaver of Looking at All Sides of the Question,” but it’s already taken. They’ll just have to go on without me.
I got my name. Sister Spikey Mace of Moderation. It fits. I’m sort of glad they nixed the hugging.
So, when is Talk Like a Unitarian Universalist Day?
Oh, I wish I hadn’t clicked that link.
An Internet Phenomena vs. Reality
by Joyce Dowling
(a.k.a. Sister Broadsword of Reasoned Discussion)
Aug. 14, 2005
An Internet Phenomen_a_?!? 
O, the vile, maggot-brained spawn of syphilitic, draft-dodging monkey-catchers. 
Heh heh he, I thank sombody got thur plurals and there cingulars mixed up!!
Well, like the dude said:
Whatever happened to … you know, everything?
Alas! Everything has been taken out by a preemptive strike from the Flaming ICBM of Mild Debate.
In true UU fashion it’ll never get much farther than the committee being formed,
if it makes it beyond coffee hour discussion.
At the most, it might be a workshop topic at GA.
But remember the Buddhist realization that if two people see it is a good idea, it will be done.
Sibling Howitzer of Warm Humanitarianism
I have a catchy slogan to chant:
THERE IS AT MOST ONE GOD,
LETS TAKE IT IN TURNS TO BE HIS PROPHET
I’d prefer to take inspiration from Lessing’s Nathan der Weise and chant “If we can take it as a working assumption that there is at most one God, then let’s take it in turns to be his prophet”. 
I’ve always thought it an attractive yet odd religion.
You worship snakes? Come on in!
You pro-life? You be unwelcome, mon!
Oh, boy! Silly names. Let’s see … I wanna be … um … how about, Rainbow Hemorrhoid of the Chiff? I think I got that right. It fits the pattern, doesn’t it?
djm
In true Unitarian spirit, let’s form a committee and discuss this over coffee.
I invite you both to join us at the Humanitarian Beverage Responsibility Committee to discuss whether you really want to discuss your catchy slogans over a beverage steeped in the blood and tears of exploited coffee farmers without health insurance.
Thank you for your kind offer. I’ll put it to the committee as soon as I’m through with my panic attack.
In my church, the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse, that is not an issue. I kid you not; some of the church ladies in the Purple Paisley Quilters’ group, one of the most influential groups in our church’s politics, made sure we get our coffee from a company set up specifically to grow coffee in a socially and environmentally responsible manner.
Aka fair trade coffee.
And of Jim Stone’s concern about Pro-lifers not being welcome,
I know of 3 totally out of the closet Republicans in “The Book” at Saint Frank Lloyd Wright’s (aka Unity Temple UU Congregation) in Oak Park, Il.
There was something about that remark that was puzzling. Did Jim actually check that it was the pro-life views that were deemed unacceptable or the closed-minded attitude perhaps with which they were held and expressed? It’s a common mistake/tactic of activists to interpret all opposition as opposition to the ‘message’ when much of it is opposition to bad debating manners.
Ideally, I’d want a fly-on-the-wall view of the social interaction Jim is talking about before I’d accept, without qualification, that Unitarians were intolerant of anything other than intolerance itself. Well, at least I’d want a transcript of what was said by both parties.