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Our March Touchstones theme is "Respect." Our religious journey to respect has, in some ways, been slow. Tolerance has been a core religious value for us since 1557. Yet, Unitarian Universalist minister Forrest Church wrote in a sermon in 1998, “Acceptance trumps tolerance.” In another sermon a decade later in 2008, he proposed that Unitarian Universalists “upgrade the condescending virtue of tolerance to a ‘true respect.’” And we are.
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