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Unitarians self-describe as ''religious'' liberals. It is probably fair to say that the denomination has a reputation for ''political'' liberalism as well. As one sermon put it, "Sometimes we act as if we believe we can effect a complete separation of our liberal faith and our politics. Some of us confuse liberal religion with liberal politics and seem to operate under the belief that if we are registered with the Democratic party we have fulfilled our religious obligations in the public sphere. Both these beliefs are actually false. I say this even though I myself have at different times acted as if I believed one of these two things."<ref>[http://www.uunewbedford.org/excerpt.htm An Election-day Sermon for Religious Liberals], Dan Harper, First Unitarian in New Bedford</ref>.
 
Unitarians self-describe as ''religious'' liberals. It is probably fair to say that the denomination has a reputation for ''political'' liberalism as well. As one sermon put it, "Sometimes we act as if we believe we can effect a complete separation of our liberal faith and our politics. Some of us confuse liberal religion with liberal politics and seem to operate under the belief that if we are registered with the Democratic party we have fulfilled our religious obligations in the public sphere. Both these beliefs are actually false. I say this even though I myself have at different times acted as if I believed one of these two things."<ref>[http://www.uunewbedford.org/excerpt.htm An Election-day Sermon for Religious Liberals], Dan Harper, First Unitarian in New Bedford</ref>.
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The ''American Unitarian Conference,'' founded in the year 2000, believes the Unitarian Universalists have departed from the "Unitarian Christianity" of Channing and regards itself as a "reborn" version of the American Unitarian Association, which it says "disbanded" in 1961 when it merged with the Universalists.<ref>[http://www.americanunitarian.org/ American Unitarian Conference: Promoting the American Unitarian Tradition]</ref>
    
==Unitarian Universalists and Christianity==
 
==Unitarian Universalists and Christianity==
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