Liberal Religious Youth
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Liberal Religious Youth (LRY) was an autonomous, North American youth organization affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). LRY was unique as a church youth group in that it was governed by its members, who were generally between the ages of fourteen and nineteen years old, with adults serving only in an advisory capacity. Though partial funding and office space were provided by the UUA, primary funding was through an independent endowment, the investment of which was controlled by the LRY board of directors.
Continental LRY was run by an executive committee, usually consisting of four or five full-time officers, elected to one-year positions by the board of directors. Executive committee members shared an apartment and office in Boston and, like the board, were all under the age of twenty.
[edit] History
LRY was founded in 1953, before the merger of Unitarians and Universalists, and has roots going back both to the Unitarian YPRU (Young People's Religious Union), organized in 1896, and the Universalist YPCU (Young People's Christian Union), founded in 1898.
Due to ongoing conflict with Unitarian Universalist adult leadership, and amid a great deal of controversy, LRY was disbanded in 1982. Within the Unitarian Universalist Association it was replaced in 1982 by a new youth program, Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (YRUU).
[edit] Trivia
LRY is mentioned in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. A significant number of early LRYers were followers of Folk music. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s many LRYers were fans of the music of The Grateful Dead (aka Deadheads), while the the late 1970s and early 1980s saw many LRYers become Punk Rockers.
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| Past: About Your Sexuality | Liberal Religious Youth | Young People's Christian Union | Young People's Religious Union
Present: Our Whole Lives | Coming of Age | Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Network | Young Religious Unitarian Universalists |
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