>> the eternal flame of the search for truth which is the symbol of unitarian universalism. >> now i'm going to get pinned? >> you are going to get pinned. [laughter] >> because you are a professor of religious studies. >> and i can wear this? >> and you can wear this because it's got all of them on it. >> see it's a neutral pin. [laughter] [applause] >> there you are see and that's the end of the lecture. >> thank you. [laughter] >> roll in quickly. just couple of more things. but, thank you helen, there is a couple of reasons we wanted to do that; first off, we needed to hear some thing about the unitarian universalists, but also how interesting helen's reaction i think that, when we're looking at these categories, believers are going to have their own say and where they belong and we have to understand that also, but thank you, this is really nice. the rest of the presents, i hope you'll be forth coming. [laughter] let me move on to non-conventionality. we'll tie up this scene, see a couple of provocative roll-ins and already with the unitarian universalists we will see there is som

i am george, a member of unitarian universalist church. i am here to speak in support of creating a mitigation monitoring, reporting, and enforcement committee has requested by the coalition of san francisco for health care, housing, jobs, and justice. our historic sanctuary at the unitarian church is located across the intersection from the proposed cathedral hill hospital loading dock. our magnificent stained-glass windows will transfer noise from the loading dock, including the beep, beep, beep of delivery trucks, and the significant and unavoidable noise of oxygen in deliveries and medical waste removal equipment. in addition, there remains the potential for delivery trucks creating blocked intersections with frustrated drivers on and geary and o'farrell streets laying on of their horns. i appreciate that the representatives agreed to even stronger medications than originally proposed to address these challenges, but many of those medications are contingent -- many of those mitigations are contingent to closing those doors which will i

i promised you the exceptional amitai etzioni, and here he is tell me about 10 unitarianism. you -- this is your own philosophy. i know it is a global, but i have a friend in england that is passionate about it, and did not believe that i had met you, that someone like me would know someone like you. >> thank you. i appreciate the opportunity see you again into share ideas with people who follow you on television, in print, and on radio. so, the idea comes from the world community, which is really what it is about. the notion is there are not just individual steps have rights and liberties that are sacred, but we are members of immediate and extended families. we have a network of friends. we have neighbors and even larger committees like nations, religious groups, jewish community, gay community, and today, we are concerned about the international community, which brings us to what i consider the subject of today, but concerns -- the concerns of a global community. >> china is a and your mind, or more especially american attitudes to china, which are very confused. we by an

there when i just change has been marrying gay people for a decade the unitarians well and understanding of jeremiah wright and that's why president obama's statements were a little disingenuous in that he had been involved in a place where there were same sex unions being performed not legally but really church spiritually what i'm concerned about is changing ultimately education and how kids are raised in this culture and again i'm saying if you want real justice you need to why so you're going back and oppose it just you're going back to the notion that if kids are exposed to gay couples or gay sex education or gay anything they might turn out gay as are you operating on the assumption that people learn to be gay you know i don't think people are born that way i don't think people born that way i think they may feel like i'm curious given their upbringing how old were you when you first noticed that girls were interesting to or boys i'm not sure you know but i'm not sure girls. probably ten or twelve years old somewhere in that category pew the same thing from a maybe even a little ea

organizations, the catholic church, that you have to marry to men nor should they be able to tell the unitarian or methodist church that they can't. this isn't just about equality but -- >> i'm not asking you about equality. i'm asking you what would you say to people in your party and to mitt romney who say you shouldn't have the right to be married? >> they need to look at it a little witt further and not look at the old adage of the position of the rupp party. i can tell you knows of news our 40s and younger in the rupp party, there's far stronker support in the evolution of this for equality and for recognition of, hey, they need to understand that. and i think that even to see obama come out now and he's evolved and i think that the rupp party is lag on this particular issue. >> all right. >> we'll get there. >> so is the sheriff still in trouble with the law? >> yes. >> and is he the one to get social conservatives and gay people to finally talk and listen? [ dad ] i'm usually checking up on my kids, but last year my daughter was checking up on me. i wasn't eating well. she's a dietitian,

organizations, the catholic church that you have to marry two men, nor should they be able to tell the unitarian or the methodist church that they can't. and this is about -- not just about equality, this is about -- >> but i am not asking you about that. i'm saying what would you say to people in your party and to mitt romney who say that you should not have the right to be married? >> they need to look at it a little bit further and not just look at the old adage of this is the position of the republican party and what i have to do, because i can tell you, those of us in our 40s and younger in the republican party, there's far stronger support in the evolution of this for equality and for recognition of, hey, they need to understand that. and i think to see obama come out, and he's evolved. and i think that the republican party is lagging on this particular issue. >> all right, paul -- >> but they will get there. >> is the sheriff still in trouble with the law and can he get social conservatives and gay people to talk and to listen? ♪ if loving you is wrong ♪ i don't wanna be right [ record sc

[laughter] i assure you it was not a unitarian church. [laughter] [laughter] last, the idea of the that the world is not just there for pleasure. there are things that must be treated as sacred and holy. this is a painting. the outpouring of chastity. it shows the virgin mary locked up with a stream of pure water. all the other symbolism is over-the-top. it speaks to the idea about female chastity and virtue. on the left, his images resonant. this is from madonna's book, sex, celebrating all kinds of whatever. if it feels good, period here is a car with a bumper sticker that says your body may be a temple, but mine is a bemusement park. [laughter] here's a sign that i photographed that says no thing is sacred. i will give you a guess if that was occupy wall street or tea party. i have no idea what it meant, but you'd never see that at the tea party rally. to put this together, here is the data that showed you with three foundations. everybody values all three, but there is a difference. the other three foundations are very different. it l

you know, the liberal christian tradition runs back to thomas jefferson and unitarianism and deism and so on. the prosperity gospel tradition is as old as, you know, alexis de tocqueville and as new as the trinity broadcasting network. the sort of gospel of self-help and therapeutic religion and so on. i mean, i think in many ways emerson is sort of one of the crucial forefathers of elizabeth gilbert and "eat, pray, love," which is one of the books i talk about at length. so what's new is not these heresies, really. what's new is the weakness of the institutional, um, small o orthodox, historically-rooted christian response. it isn't so much that, you know, that we didn't have heretics in the american life before. we've always been a nation of heretics, but they haven't had the field to themselves, i think, as completely as they have over the last, increasingly over the last four or five decades. so the first half of the book tries to tell the story of how this came to pass, and it begins because, you know, every book needs to begin in some lost arcadia that, you know, will be summoned