Ethical Leaders Network

After a wonderful summer of weekly Sunday morning meetings we’re at the beginning of our “regular season.” This year’s theme, “Sustainable Living” will, I hope, spur our creative juices and lead us to imaginative responses to the challenges of living lighter on the planet and encourage the spread of behaviors that protect and conserve resources. Given the size and scope of the environmental problems we face it is clear that there is much to do and it is important that we each find avenues for participation.

I hope you all have had a nice summer with plentiful recreation and leisure. While having fewer actual vacation days on my calendar this summer I did manage to have high quality restorative time and am coming to the close of the summer fully recharged and champing at the bit in anticipation of the activities of coming months.

If you support marriage equality -- the legality of marriage whatever the sex/gender of the partners -- then you may find the White Knot site useful as a resource for finding ways to express your support.

The American Ethical Union recognizes, from our religious perspective, the legitimacy of marriage, without regard to the sex/gender of the partners, as we supported earlier the legitimacy of marriage without regard to the race of the partners.

For Mother's Day, 2005, the platform address at the Northern Virginia Ethical Society looked at Jane Addams and social reform. I especially enjoyed that timing because my mother had been a #1 fan of Jane Addams, and had modeled her own professional life after what she got from the experience of Jane Addams. Addams also had a connection to the Ethical movement, which I bring out in the address.