Comments on: The Personal is Political — and Theological http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/the-personal-is-political-and-theological Religion and spirituality from a Unitarian Universalist perspective Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:26:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Shelby http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/the-personal-is-political-and-theological#comment-432 Shelby Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:00:56 +0000 http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/the-personal-is-political-and-theological#comment-432 Woah, that's quite a story, especially the part about the soda machines. Thanks for visiting and commenting, Bill. Woah, that’s quite a story, especially the part about the soda machines. Thanks for visiting and commenting, Bill.

]]> By: Bill Baar http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/the-personal-is-political-and-theological#comment-421 Bill Baar Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:57:01 +0000 http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/the-personal-is-political-and-theological#comment-421 I remember as a teen going to Chicago's Third Unitarian to see slides from one of the first youth groups to visit the German Democratic Republic after Detente made trips behind iron curtin easier. The guy who lead the group was the leader of the Communist Party on Chicago's West Side and solid defender of <em>... a system designed to turn people against one another....</em>. I have a vivid recollection of how solid a defender because he got into an argument over the styles of soda machines in the east. They used a glass cup to dispense and someone in the audience got grossed out over that, and I remember the comrade going into a long lecture defending east block soda machines. So UU <em>progressive political activism</em> was a little over board in 1970. I remember as a teen going to Chicago’s Third Unitarian to see slides from one of the first youth groups to visit the German Democratic Republic after Detente made trips behind iron curtin easier. The guy who lead the group was the leader of the Communist Party on Chicago’s West Side and solid defender of … a system designed to turn people against one another…..

I have a vivid recollection of how solid a defender because he got into an argument over the styles of soda machines in the east. They used a glass cup to dispense and someone in the audience got grossed out over that, and I remember the comrade going into a long lecture defending east block soda machines.

So UU progressive political activism was a little over board in 1970.

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