Kent Conrad was also a Unitarian Universalist, IIRC. Which is kind of weird considering that he was a Blue Dog.
The Unitarian Universalists have roots in Puritanism and made a bizarre transition from icy Calvinism to mainstream Congregationalism to pseudo-atheist spiritualism as Unitarians.
Pretty much. UUs must surely be among the most Democratic voting religious demographics in the U.S.- which is particularly astonishing when you consider that the vast majority of Unitarians are wealthy whites.
Of course, there's a lot of theological diversity within UUism- with the biggest cleavage being between the more strongly atheistic types and the more spiritually-oriented folks. The former tends to skew older, and they generally parallel the old guard 'conservative' types you see in other denominations, which is of course a little ironic. The latter is younger in general, and tends to try to push the Church more in a religious direction.
Both factions are extremely left-wing, of course. But the old-guard atheists/agnostics tend to be a little more maverick-y and less willing to embrace the hippy-ness which defines the younger generation.
It should also be noted that the U.U. church is suffering demographically, due to similar forces that are also hurting many mainline Protestant denominations.
Of course, this may not be applicable for the New England churches, where I get the impression that things are (at least nominally) more Christian. There are also Christian Unitarians and Universalists (in the traditional sense of those terms), some of whom work from within the UU hierarchy. I believe Ernest goes to such a church.
