Re: [UUPoly-L] Report from PNWD AGM

["Earth Father" <earthfather@cfnc.us>]

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'Storm--

Thanks for the encouraging update, and for your efforts at the meeting!

> From: Harlan White

> I've been a UU since I was 12 years old, and I always come to these UU
> gatherings with a certain feeling of swelling with pride in being a UU.
> However, I have to say that I often leave with a touch of heartbreak.  The
> reason for this is that I am a member of a minority.  It's not a racial
> minority, or an ethnic minority, or a genderal minority, or a sexual
> preference minority.  It's a philosophical minority.  

I'm not sure that I'm comfortable with relegating polyamory to a "philosophy".
It makes it sound like a fancy one takes on a slow Sunday afternoon.  For me,
and for at least one of my partners, it is not a philosophy, it is the way we
are wired.  Even being raised Catholic in the ultra-conventional 1950's, 
I was never able to imagine being able to practice monogamy; it was literally
inconceivable.  I'm just as poly as I am male or freckled or human, for that
matter.  It is not something I thought up, nor could I change it if I wanted
to.

I recognize that for some people, it may be a choice; but as someone who was
born this way (as near as I can tell, and not that I'd want it any different),
it leaves me feeling pretty invisible.

Michael Rios

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