The Religious Affairs committee works to engage individuals, and faith-based leaders and organizations within the community. The committee supports unity, understanding, and shared responsibility by fostering respectful dialogue and collaboration across diverse faith traditions. Our activities are focused on common values related to justice, dignity, and service.
This committee recognizes that faith institutions have played an important and historical role in civil rights advocacy. Our local committee promotes maintaining those connections in a respectful and inclusive manner.
The Religious Affairs Committee shall include ministerial and lay religious leaders who are members of the Unit.
It shall:
• promote an educational program designed to give moral and ethical interpretation to the civil rights struggle;
• interpret the work of the Association to organized religious groups of all faiths;
• enlist the support of such organized religious groups for membership, fundraising, and the struggle for equality and full civil rights; and
• provide resource assistance for religious education and social action activities associated with the improvement of race relations.