It was similar to a Baha'i gathering in many ways. The ages skewed older, everyone is liberal and doesn't like Trump, and the gatherings are pretty interactive where you have an opportunity to talk to people (not like a Catholic gathering where there are not really opportunities to mingle). Lots of long liberal rants, about for example the corporations and how people only care about money, like those you would hear people give at Baha'i gatherings.

Unitarian Universalists are more liberal and more atheist than Baha'is. People might criticize the idea of a God and people would interject to express their agreement. There are also lots of LGBTQ flags. Unitarians are of course accepting of gay marriage and the LGBTQ movement whereas Baha'is are not (but wish they were).

My view on liberalism is it has negatively impacted the Baha'i community, and I have often wondered whether liberalism or the institute process has had a worse impact the Baha'i community. After seeing the Unitarian Universalist church, I can say with certainty that the institute process has had a worse impact on the Baha'i Faith than liberalism, because the Unitarian Universalist church which embraces liberalism and lacks the institute process is in a much better state than the Baha'i community. It honestly reminded me of the Baha'i community in the early 2000s. Yes, the Unitarian Universalist community skewed older, but there SOME young people there too. There were some couples with young children there. The single young people were all men, so there was a gender imbalance. But the community did not consist purely of elderly senile people like the Baha'i community does.

This is just an idea, but maybe dissident Baha'is may want to find a new home at Unitarian Universalist churches instead of at Haifan Baha'i centers. Although I think liberalism/wokeism is damaging to cultures, I think a lot of the types of thinking that led to liberalism were originally good ideals that were just twisted into fallacious conclusions, so maybe some of these people have higher principles that are ok. For example, they seem religiously tolerant, so maybe dissident Baha'is can be open about their religious views at a Unitarian Universalist church, and not fear judgment like they would at a Haifan Baha'i center.