A lesbian minister in Nantucket, Massachusetts, is canceling her church’s annual Fourth of July celebrations in an act of political protest apparently against the country’s — as well as her own congregation’s — “whiteness.”
Rev. Erin Splaine announced to her community Thursday that the Second Congregational Meeting House Society, Unitarian Universalist church would be canceling its customary July 4th celebrations, which include a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. (RELATED: Town Votes To Cut Police Staff, Cries When It Impacts Beloved Fourth Of July Tradition)
“We came to this decision in large measure because of the recent gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court,” Splaine wrote in a letter to the Nantucket Current. She was referring to the 2026 Louisiana v. Callais case that declared racial gerrymandering unconstitutional.
Slaine claimed that white people experience the “Rights and Privileges” enshrined in the founding documents in a manner “tragically, often violently, and unequally applied to fellow citizens who are not white.”
Such injustice, Slaine argued, means celebrating America’s history “without context … perpetuates the harm, injustice, and anti-democratic process,” she wrote in part.
Slaine mentioned that she and her congregation have been concerned since the April Supreme Court case and are on an “on-going process … to better understand [their] own whiteness.” (RELATED: New York City Teachers Union Hosts Workshop Detailing The ‘Harmful Effects Of Whiteness’)
“We are working as a congregation and as members of this community to expand our knowledge — to learn the entirety of our American history,” she continued.
Wtf. Erin Splaine, the “Reverend” of the woke Unitarian Universalist Church in Nantucket, just canceled July 4th celebrations because White people are “privileged” and honoring American history “perpetuates the harm, injustice, and anti-democratic process.”
She then forbids… pic.twitter.com/uv9SDih7gn
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 29, 2026
Slaine, on behalf of the church’s Board of Trustees, discouraged people from contacting her on social media. Instead, she requested individuals make appointments with her because social media is not ideal for “tender, important conversations.”
The Nantucket Unitarian Universalist church is marked as an “LGBTQ Welcoming Congregation” on the Unitarian Universalist Association’s (UUA) website, meaning the church completed a UUA Welcoming Congregation Program and is “intentionally more inclusive towards bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender people.”
The church is a member of the Unitarian Universalism religion, which “celebrates diversity of belief,” according to the Nantucket congregation’s website. It further notes that church membership “does not require renouncing other religious affiliations or practices.”
Splaine graduated from Harvard Divinity School and has a wife, according to the church’s website.
The Nantucket Unitarian church has not responded to the Daily Caller’s request for comment as of publication.