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Mobile Register

Religion Digest

August 19, 2005

Stephen Black will address the Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship at 11 a.m., Aug. 21 on the topic “The Future of Moral Public Action in Alabama.” The public is invited to attend.

Black will discuss how our “values voters” shape our political identity on the state level. These voters say that “moral values” is the issue that matters most to them in deciding how to vote.

Abortion, school prayer, gun control and a constitutional amendment banning same- sex marriage-all are issues that increasingly define, for many voters, the central story on the stage of national politics.

But what about the state level?

Black says, “True progress can only be built on values. Change in Alabama will require a spirituality of social responsibility – a reason for action that transcends individual interest.”

Black is the grandson of the late Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. The younger Black graduated from Yale Law School in 1997. He has served as policy advisor to the governor of Alabama, and is now practicing law in Birmingham. He serves on the boards of the Alabama Civil Justice Foundation, Voices for Alabama’s Children and the Alabama Poverty Project.