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The purpose of the Forum is to provide interesting and informative speakers or panels to address the congregation's and others' interest in social justice. We provide intellectual stimulation and give activists a platform to communicate their messages. Speakers are chosen on the basis of subject knowledge, opinions and perspectives not widely available elsewhere, speaking ability, and topics of interest to the congregation and friends. Forum speakers do not solicit funds or membership in groups outside the church.

Typically the Forum topics reflect interests similar to those of this historic liberal/left social-justice oriented UU congregation. Issue areas commonly covered include social justice, economics, civil rights, war and peace, community affairs, racism/sexism/homophobia. Forums usually have an external focus, but several times a year the forum is dedicated to internal church matters. The Forum is not coordinated with the Sunday Service or minister‘s choice of topic.

To protect the not-for-profit tax status of our church, we comply with the following guidelines:

• We host candidate forums only if they include all candidates, and we do not endorse any candidate.
• We do not provide financial or other support, such as mailing lists, to a campaign or distribute or display a candidate's campaign literature.
• We do sponsor voter education and may send out questionnaires to candidates and publish the results.
• We do not establish or support political action committees.