miscellany

from the CUC website, lightly edited:

At the CUC’s Annual General Meeting on May 8, 2021, an unexpected motion was proposed to adopt an eighth principle – to add to the current seven principles* – for member congregations to affirm and promote:

Individual and communal action that accountably dismantles racism and other oppressions in ourselves and in our institutions

Although the motion was ruled out of order, delegates voted to suspend the rules of order, and subsequently voted in favour of adopting the eighth principle. However, on review after the AGM, it was deemed that the CUC’s bylaws regarding providing sufficient notice had not been followed, and the motion is thus void and non-binding.