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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 solely 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.〔''(Freedom to Question - Supplemental Materials - People Soup )''. Archived PDF scans of the LRY newspaper, 1973 - 1982.〕 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 of directors, were all under the age of twenty.〔 Throughout the 1960s and most of the '70s, the LRY office was in the UU headquarters at 25 Beacon street, Boston. In the late '70s it was moved by the UUA to the basement of a smaller building behind the headquarters. The LRY Executive Committee wrote program materials for youth groups and kept in touch with their international membership via their newspaper, "People Soup," which was also completely written, edited and published by the youth staff.〔 ==History== LRY was founded in 1954,〔MacCleary, John Bassett (2004). ''The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s''. Berkeley, CA, Ten Speed Press. ISBN 1-58008-547-4 pp.306, 314, 610〕 before the official consolidation of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America in 1961, and has roots going back both to the Unitarian Young People's Religious Union, organized in 1896, and the Universalist Young People's Christian Union, founded in 1898.〔Roy, Ralph Lord (1960). ''Communism and the Churches''. Harcourt, Brace. p.368〕 In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, LRYers were seriously involved in the counterculture, civil rights and anti-war movements. At times these radical activities were sanctioned by their elders in the church, but at other times they were condemned. In the 1980s, these activities continued but, along with the rest of the country, the leadership of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) was becoming more conservative, and relations between the leaders of LRY and the UUA became progressively more strained.〔〔Altbach, Philip G. (1997) ''Student Politics in America: A Historical Analysis''. Piscataway, NJ, Transaction Publishers. ISBN 1-56000-944-6 p.173〕〔Oppenheimer, Mark (2003) ''Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture''. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10024-8 pp.35, 236〕 Because of 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).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Liberal Religious Youth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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