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Nantucket church cites ‘our own whiteness’ in canceling Fourth of July readings
Boston Herald ^ | 05 30 2026 | Lance Reynolds

Posted on 06/02/2026 4:28:15 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

A church on Nantucket says it won’t host its Fourth of July readings of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights as America celebrates its 250th anniversary because of “our own whiteness.”

Division has sprouted in the quaint Massachusetts island community after the Nantucket Unitarian Universalists announced that it wouldn’t be holding its annual holiday readings of America’s founding documents in “political protest.”

The Nantucket Unitarian Universalists, which says it puts its “faith into action through social justice work,” is pointing directly to the Supreme Court’s ruling that electoral mapmakers relied too heavily on racial demographics to hit specific minority-representation targets.

“We came to this decision in large measure because of the recent gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court,” Rev. Erin Splaine and the group’s board of trustees wrote in a letter to the Nantucket Current news outlet on Thursday. ” A celebration without context and the centering of the fullness of our American Story only perpetuates the harm, injustice, and anti-democratic process.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: church; fakechurch; fourthofjuly; idolaters; isitthemyogi; nantucket; neoracists; themagain; unitarian

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1 posted on 06/02/2026 4:28:15 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Nuts


2 posted on 06/02/2026 4:28:58 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: yesthatjallen

There once was a “church” on Nantucket...

Feel free to complete.


3 posted on 06/02/2026 4:30:51 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: butlerweave

Universalist Unitarian are that. Viz. nuts. Theirs is no religion and certainly not Christian. They stand for nothing and fall for everything.


4 posted on 06/02/2026 4:30:57 PM PDT by LouAvul (Cleaning your home with a dog in the house is like brushing your teeth while eating Oreos.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Minister

The Rev. Erin Splaine began her ministry here on August 1, 2025 which marks her return to the congregation where she first heard the call to ministry over 30 years ago. Erin earned a bachelor’s degree at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, and her master’s degree in Divinity from Harvard Divinity School.


5 posted on 06/02/2026 4:31:17 PM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Well, there’s also red and blue!


6 posted on 06/02/2026 4:31:38 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: decal

It went to Hell in a bucket.


8 posted on 06/02/2026 4:40:55 PM PDT by JayGalt (A never ending battle for Truth, Justice & the American Way.)
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To: decal

They told the Constitution to F^%$ It


9 posted on 06/02/2026 4:42:45 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: yesthatjallen

Unitarian , As a friend once said: there is no room in heaven for unitarians.


10 posted on 06/02/2026 4:44:30 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: yesthatjallen
Democratic Party talking points are their religion.

And you will notice these particular whites have the "privilege" of living where they don't have to deal with blacks very much.

11 posted on 06/02/2026 4:44:35 PM PDT by Salman (The Democrats have seceded from the human race. It's time for Trump to go full Pinochet.)
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Yeah the preacher is black, but the congregation is not.


12 posted on 06/02/2026 4:45:16 PM PDT by Salman (The Democrats have seceded from the human race. It's time for Trump to go full Pinochet.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Lesbian white women preaching the word of God is a pretty large mockery.


13 posted on 06/02/2026 4:48:39 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze; hole_n_one
Splaine


14 posted on 06/02/2026 4:51:09 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I thought it was a Christian church until I read the 2nd or 3rd sentence. Unitarian clubs are not churches.


15 posted on 06/02/2026 4:52:12 PM PDT by TomEd (Her şey hazır! Buyrun, şölene!)
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16 posted on 06/02/2026 4:53:56 PM PDT by Allegra (I hate the word “literally.” )
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To: LouAvul
Universalist Unitarian are that. Viz. nuts. Theirs is no religion and certainly not Christian. They stand for nothing and fall for everything.

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You are SO RIGHT!!

Not only are they not a church, they are a DEMONIC cult!!

17 posted on 06/02/2026 4:57:36 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: yesthatjallen

What? OMG!


18 posted on 06/02/2026 5:03:03 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: yesthatjallen

Why are white people so suicidal? Aren’t these the same hypocrites who had a bunch of bussed in illegals moved back to the mainland?


19 posted on 06/02/2026 5:05:07 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: JZelle

A church without Christ ain’t a church...........


20 posted on 06/02/2026 5:06:11 PM PDT by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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