[UUPoly-L] UU experience with polygamy

[JasmineGld@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/22/2006 11:24:24 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
lykinsg@aol.com writes:

> A UU minister from Utah told me about encountering a UU 
> whose polygamous childhood was happy, and who felt she
> couldn't talk about it publicly due to the common  perception
> that all polygamists are child abusers. 
 
I hope this UU finds UUPoly and UUPA. Her voice is one that's not being  
heard. But we need to hear it, we need to learn from it, and we need to have  
conversations. 
 
During GA this year, a UU minister spoke with me about GA going to Salt  Lake 
City in 2009. He pointed out that polygamy has much higher visibility among  
Utah UUs than among UUs in most other parts of the US. He said UUPA had better 
 be ready, before we get to Utah, to talk about how FLDS polygamy does or  
does not relate to polyamory. 
 
A conversation with the UU who grew up in a happy polygamous home would be  a 
good starting place. 
 
Jasmine