Welcoming Congregation

Who is Welcome?

Our church bylaws state:

"This congregation affirms and promotes the full participation of all persons in all our activities and endeavors without regard to race, color, gender, physical or mental challenge, affectional or sexual orientation, age, class, or national origin. We also affirm the practice of affirmative action and the principle of comparable worth to remedy the results of historical discrimination."

In 2001 the Rochester congregation held a series of workshops based on the UUA material and received certification from the UUA as a Welcoming Congregation.

The Welcoming Congregation Program was created for Unitarian Universalist congregations that saw the need to become more inclusive towards bisexual, gay, lesbian and trans gender people. It consists of a series of workshops developed by the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). The goal of the workshops is to reduce prejudice by increasing understanding and acceptance among people of different sexual orientation and sexual identity.