Re: [UUPoly-L] Welcoming

[Valerie White <valerie@forevermail.com>]

At 06:09 PM 11/30/2006, David Hall wrote:
> When my congregation was starting the WC process, I joined the committee and
> supported the process, but was not able to get poly as part of the effort.
> However, when we voted on a new bylaws statement of membership, it included
> the phrase "regardless of marital status" and I said, hey everybody is
> either married or not married, why not "regardless of relationship status"
> and it was approved without comment.


My home congregation did almost exactly the same thing . . . in the 
WC process, the WC committee wanted an affirmative non-discrimination 
statement in our bylaws, and I asked them to include "family 
structure" in the list and they did and it too passed without 
opposition or comment.

Valerie