Additional Social Actions of Our Congregation

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
of Falmouth

840 Sandwich Road
East Falmouth, MA 02536
508-457-0449

A Welcoming Congregation

"Welcoming Congregation" is a designation of the Unitarian Universalist Association indicating a UU congregation that meets certain criteria regarding welcoming of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons. The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Falmouth voted to become an official Welcoming Congregation, but broadened its definition to embrace diversity of many kinds, as shown in the declaration below.

On June 6, 2002, at a special business meeting, the members of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Falmouth declared the following:

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Falmouth is a Welcoming Congregation. The Fellowship declares and affirms its special responsibility to promote the full participation of persons in all of its activities, and in the full range of human endeavor, without regard to race, color, sex, disability, affectional or sexual orientation, age, or national origin, and without requiring adherence to any particular interpretation of religion or to any particular religious belief or creed.

Welcoming Congregation Committee News

The Welcoming Congregation Committee is glad to announce that we will be starting a PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) support group that will meet monthly at the UUFF. Our first meeting will be Tuesday, May 1, at 6:30 p.m.

The Welcoming Congregation Committee will also be active with Cape Cod Pride. Both PFLAG and Cape Cod Pride have the support of the Social Action Committee. For more information please call Anne Toran, Chair of the Welcoming Congregation Committee, at 508-548-1038.

Falmouth No Place for Hate

"No Place for Hate" is a designation awarded by the Anti Defamation League to towns who meet certain criteria regarding non-discriminatory policies and celebration of diversity. The Unitarian Universalist Welcoming Congregation Committee is active in support of the Falmouth "No Place for Hate" group, which is headed by Falmouth Affirmative Action Officer George Spivey.

Falmouth No Place for Hate has coordinated with the Falmouth Police Department in developing a survey on racial profiling to respond to a state survey that indicated that Falmouth minority drivers are disproportionately subjects of police action in comparison to white drivers.

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