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UUA Elections 2001 A statement from the Rev. Diane Miller, on the election of Rev. William Sinkford as UUA President, June 23, 2001 |
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UUA Elections 2001 A statement from the Rev. Diane Miller, on the election of Rev. William Sinkford as UUA President, June 23, 2001 |
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This statement was written by the Rev. Diane Miller for publication in the Sunday GA Newsletter. Due to a scheduling error, the piece did not run in the newsletter. We are publishing it on the UUA's website, and it will run on uua-l and the UUA's elections email lists.
I extend my congratulations to Bill Sinkford.
I wish him and the Association well in his presidency.
I extend my admiration and gratitude to all who ran for the various offices .Thank you as well to all who participated in these campaigns. Thank you to the Delegates who deliberated and voted. Thank you as well to the staff of the UUA for their graceful neutrality and to the many local volunteers without whom our democratic process cannot work.
Elections are times of challenge and opportunity, exercising, as they do, the democratic process that we affirm as fundamental to our religious sensibilities. I want to honor everyone for your commitment to this process.
I acknowledge that some of you are disappointed in its result.
Let us seek together an easing of any grief and a shared commitment to this faith we love.
I pray that we might heed well the words of Francis David "that we need not think alike to love alike."
Thank you all.
-- Diane Miller, June 23, 2001
Cleveland, Ohio
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