No Exceptions, Not Even Trump
I want to talk about a thing. I want to talk about the First Principle of Unitarian Universalism: the inherent worth and dignity of every person. And I want to talk about what happens to that principle when the name Donald Trump enters the room. [Yep, folks….I’m really going there!] Because for many of us, perhaps for most of us, that's where the principle begins to strain. Some of us have said it out loud. Others have only thought it. But the thought is the same: Surely there must be an exception. Surely this is the person who forfeited it. If that thought has crossed your mind, you are not shallow, immoral, or un UU. You are human. You are reacting. You are responding to fear, grief, anger, exhaustion, and sometimes trauma. But the question isn’t whether those feelings are understandable. Of course they are. The question is whether the First Principle survives them. Let’s slow down and look more carefully at the word we rush past. Inherent. The word comes from the Latin inhaere...