Hi, I'm a woman in my late 20s and I've been giving my local UU church a try. I wanted to join for a spiritual community, and a community in general. I was hoping I could chat with you guys about a couple things:

1. I'm a little worried about how they push politics. I lean liberal myself, but I've always believed in the separation of church and state. This church seems to openly support the Liberal party (Canada) online and in person. I thought when you have tax free status you weren't supposed to get involved in politics?

2. I've attended a mix of in person and online services for maybe 6 weeks now and I've found that the actual spirituality component of the services was really, really missing. I was hoping to actually learn about different faith traditions and ways to grow my spirituality, but faith/spirituality/religion doesn't seem to come up much. It appears to be 99% social justice, which is ok but I was hoping for more spiritual content. The only time I've actually heard a reference to the divine/religion in the 6 weeks was a quote from the bible the first week.

3. I was kind of taken aback by how militant congregants can be about veganism. I eat meat myself, I have high protein needs due to medical issues and vegan options are very expensive. I went to a service one day and there was a big display explaining how no good UU member could eat meat, you can't eat meat and be moral, etc. I understand it's good for the environment but the messaging was so aggressive.

Anyways, I'm just wondering if anyone has any thoughts? Is this the normal UU experience? The people are very friendly but it's just not what I expected, you know?