In 1961, the Department of Adult Programs for the Unitarian Universalist’s in Boston published a booklet of Resolutions proposed by delegates to the meetings of Universalists, Unitarians, and Liberal Religious Youth from 1950 to 1960.

Some of these Resolutions, which seem both pertinent and prescient today, address concerns about education, military affairs, the United Nations, capital punishment, brotherhood, school busing, separation of church and state, freedom, and Congressional acts and judiciary problems.

Two of the Resolutions applied to loyalty and liberty. Both the Unitarians and Universalists in 1951 issued a response to the loyalty investigations then being conducted, stating “Whereas certain men have persecuted many innocent persons with accusations of disloyalty, and in their fear, many are trying to censor free speech, free teaching and communication, we resolve to affirm loyalty to the freedom of the mind to believe and of the tongue to speak what the mind believes. We condemn all persecution of persons for belief without evidence of treason, all enforced submission to doctrine, religious or political. And we assert that national security is guarded more through freedom and constructive criticism than it could ever be through the silence of conformity and fear.”