User talk:LadyofShalott/Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington
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[edit]"Supreme Court puts hold on same-sex marriage in Virginia", CBS News, August 20, 2014900-member congregation
"Lesbian couple make history with first same-sex wedding in Virginia just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court decides to green light marriages in up to 11 states", by Charlene Adams, Daily Mail, October 6, 2014first same-sex marriage in Virginia officiated by UUCA's Linda Olson Peebles
"Unitarian Universalist Church Named Historic Landmark", by Ethan Rothstein, ARLnow.com, September 23, 2014quotes from Peebles
"Unitarians and Universalists of Washington", by Bruce T. Marshall, pgs. 77-78, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, 2010, ISBN 9781439637739
"American Nazi Party in Arlington, Virginia 1958 - 1984", by Herman Obermayer, pgs. 165-170, 2012, ISBN 9780615731377Bomb threats received against the church in 1958
"The Whole World Kin: Darwin and the Spirit of Liberal Religion", by Fredric Muir (editor), pg. 112, Skinner House Books, 2010, ISBN 9781558965911Linda Olson Peebles, an artist and musician, served on the Unitarian Universalist Board of Trustees for eight years
"Arlington County Chronicles", by Charlie Clark, pgs. 147 and 149, The History Press, Charleston, 2014, ISBN 9781626195059- Culpepper Garden Senior Center founded by volunteers from UUCA (history)
Meeting place for the Reconstructionist Jewish community Kol Ami since the early 1990s
"The Arc of the Universe Is Long: Unitarian Universalists, Anti-Racism, and the Journey from Calgary", by Leslie Takahashi Morris, Chip Roush, Leon E. Spencer, pgs. 209, Skinner House Books, 2009, ISBN 9781558965485UUCA was active with the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s
Members (past and present) include: Representative William R. Ratchford (source), Virginia’s first openly gay elected official Jay Fisette (source, source)