The Sedition of the Unitarian Universalist Church

In today’s news, we read about a large demonstration designed to subvert the law enforcement efforts of Joe Arpaio, Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, one of a dying breed who believes in enforcement of all laws, including immigration laws. It is no coincidence that this demonstration to intimidate Arpaio comes the day before the Supreme Court is expected to uphold the main thrust of Arizona’s state immigration enforcement law, since state authorities are already empowered to enforce federal immigration laws by Federal statute(1). This movement is led by the traditionally subversive and seditionist Unitarian Universalist church(2).

In the 1980s there was an enormous movement afoot, especially in our Mexican border states, to totally wreck the concept of our national sovereignty, destroy majority rule, subvert our moral values and wreak political havoc and bring about the type of anarchy necessary to impoae upon us a communist-type government. It was the so-called sanctuary movement.

At its peak, Sanctuary involved over 500 congregations across the country that, by declaring themselves official “sanctuaries,” committed to providing shelter, material goods and often legal advice to Central American refugees. Various denominations were involved, including the Lutherans, United Church of Christ, Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Jews, Unitarian Universalists, Quakers, and Mennonite(3).

May “sanctuary” people were tried and some convicted, but the penalties were not severe enough to cause them to cease and desist. If they had been charged with treason, it would have been more in line with what they are actually doing, than what they were charged with (mostly harboring and transporting illegal aliens(4).) Regardless of their stated pretexts, and their claims of altruism, they are all engaged in activities to enlarge their church membership and to gain more economic and political power. I have always every religion, since the beginning of time, cannot be separated from political activities. Some are more blatant than others, such as the United Church of Christ of Chicago which Barack Obama once attended. That religion, by the way, is also historically unitarian in doctrinal beliefs, and not of the same faith as the traditional Church of Christ.

Historically, the concept of “sanctuary” was an agreement between old European kingdoms and the Catholic Church. The idea of the churches harboring criminals, including murderers, rapists and seditionists was amazingly tolerated by sovereign European states up until the fall of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, following the military victories of Napoleon. In the 1980s, a new version of “sanctuary” evolved in the U.S., and its primary goal was to smuggle and harbor millions of illegal aliens that invaded our southern Border States.

The primary leadership of the “sanctuary movement” has been the Unitarian Universalist church. At this point I should point out that I am not and never have been a member of any congregation of Unitarian Universalists, a church that has actually been in existence only since 1861.

At this point I should point out that I am not and have never been a member of any UU congregation, although I did attend a few of their “services,” if you can call them that. I am an enthusiast of the Transcendentalist literary movement of the early 1800s in the U.S. and still strongly believe in their concept of self-reliance as described in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, Self-Reliance(5). In recent years, I have learned to point that out when describing myself as a unitarian, to point out that it is spelled with a small “u,” and it is, for me, a persuasion (mostly philosophical), not a religion. I am not associated with the modern, Unitarian Universalist Church, which has been in existence only since 1961 when the Unitarians and Universalists united, probably more for economic survival reasons and to build up membership than for any similar beliefs. In fact, I believe that schisms and changes in the course of a religion’s doctrines are more often associated with economics and practicality than any epiphanies or divine “messages.” If you study the sources of the hundreds of different congregations in the U.S. and other countries, you will eventually come across proof of my beliefs. My personal unitarian persuasion is influenced more by those founding fathers as Adams, Madison and Jefferson; not the wacky, seditionist beliefs advanced by modern Unitarian-Universalists ministers and members of their congregations. I should also point out that there are many other “unitarian” religions, including some Pentecostals, The Church of God (7th), the Jehovah’s Witnesses, The United Churches of Christ (the religion of Jeremiah and Barack Obama, mentioned above) and many others. However, I do not subscribe to any of their varied concepts of unitarianism. None, however, adhere to the self-reliance doctrines of our founding fathers, and certain they do not share the intense patriotism for our nation. From my years on the border, I have observed that all of these advocates of “sanctuary” hold common belief in the welfare state and open borders.

The Unitarianism of of our founding fathers bears no more resemblance to the Unitarian Universalist Church than modern Mormonism resembles the fundamentalist “Mormon” sect of Warren Jeffs who not sits in prison, convicted of child rape. The modern, Unitarian Universalist church was an early participant of conducting the” rites of matrimony” to people of the same sex, and I find that most repulsive to my conservative beliefs. The Unitarianism of our founding fathers was politically liberal, but certainly not morally bankrupt--like the Unitarian-Universalists.

Policies of the United Nations and our nation’s immigration laws have very liberal asylum(6) and refugee(7) laws to serve those who are really fleeing from despotic governments because of their political, religious or other “qualifying” beliefs that do not conflict with our laws. The “sanctuary” movement has no such screening device to keep their “refugee” program from harboring criminals and common vagrants who are simply looking for a free ride. We need a president who will vigorously enforce our laws if we are to remain a free nation and not one taken over by a bunch of invaders that have no respect for our laws, or the rule of law. We also need to punish those who, in the name of altruism, use these invaders to advance their own economic and political agendas; i.e., those involved in the illegal and subversive “sanctuary movement.”

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NOTE: Some of the law sources cited below may have been renumbered, but the sources cited should refer you to the latest codification of the reference law.

(1) http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/local-enforcement-immigration-laws-through-287g-program

(2) http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-06-24/thousands-protest-arpaio-tent-city/55788638/1

(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary movement

(4) Title 8, United States Code, 1324.

(5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism

(6) 8 USC 1253(h)

(7) 8 CFR 108