Re: [UUPoly-L] more on the IA blog

["Desmond Ravenstone" <gentlemonster@lycos.com>]

   I think that if we (UUPA, corporately) feels there is no truth behind

   the "Block UUPA" theory we need to get out there and say so before this

   spreads even further.

   For the record, I've noted this on my Myspace.com blog entry. But I agree,
   we should all make an effort to clarify this issue for our fellow UUs

   Other tidbits:

   1) Tom Schade, a/k/a LT, continues to post essay after essay about "why
   this is important to UUs" (his latest missive). And he keeps referring to
   poly advocates as "passive-aggressive." How is pointing out and correcting
   errors, asking questions, and most importantly inviting him into actual
   dialogue qualify as passive-aggressive behavior? Any mental-health profs
   out there want to set him straight on this?

   2) I found an article on poly.org which talks about needs of poly folk in
   therapy, and cites studies that "nonexclusive couples" are not better or
   worse than strictly monogamous ones *but* do have different personality
   styles. This would be useful in responding to some of the questions being
   posed by poly skeptics (people with doubts about poly, but not necessarily
   hostile to us). I'm posting this on my blog, and the URL for this is:

   http://www.polyamory.org/~joe/polypaper.htm

   3) Talked with one of the lay leaders at Arlington Street Church about the
   whole online brouhaha. She was very supportive. Our senior minister is on
   vacation, but I know in talking to her that she's also quite
   poly-friendly.

   I still wish the UUA Board would speak directly to the IA issues they

   are trying to deal with.

   Amen to that! I think the whole dust-up and rumor-mongering was the
   consequence of their not being very open about the entire four-year
   process to begin with.

   Desmond Ravenstone

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