11/04/2026
Unitarian Universalists have long understood ourselves as bearers of love and justice in the world, those who show up for peace and freedom, who side with love in the face of all that would otherwise diminish our humanity. Love only exists in relationship to the beloved. Love does not happen all alone. Love, fundamentally, calls us into accountable relations with all our human and beyond-human beloveds.
This legislation perpetuates the structural injustices of environmental racism and strikes at the foundations of the environmental policies that keep our communities safe from corporations more concerned with profit than people and planet. The bill sacrifices the sovereign rights and interests of Indigenous communities, as well as the preservation of sacred and cultural resources, at a time when the climate crisis is already forcing another generation of people from their homes. BAAJA runs counter to decades of Unitarian Universalist Social Witness statements.
We call on our Unitarian Universalist community to actively oppose the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026. Join with others, both interfaith and secular allies, in that work. Trust that Congress can do better when it follows robust community consultation and crafts legislation in a transparent process. Believe that we can succeed in demanding better of our national legislators.
We cry together, in one unified voice, “May it be so.”
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2026 Joint Statement on BAAJA October 30, 2026 • Pablo DeJesus Share Link: https://bit.ly/UUstatementBAAJA  Rooted in Justice, against the deregulation in Permitting Reform On behalf of Unitarian Universalists of faith and conscience, we oppose the version of Permitting Reform being advanced in ...
