Re: [UUPoly-L] UUPA and independent affiliate status

Tara_Affinity <tara_affinity@yahoo.com> · Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:23:30 -0000

Dear Anita:

Thanks for speaking to this.  I'm not UU...but close.  As far as official affiliations are concerned, I'm a Friend (Quaker).  I'd say liberal, unprogrammed Friends are probably par in the "openness" department, but as I begin working on bringing "polyamory" into the conversation, I'm very concerned about the wellbeing of polyamory within UU.  I'm confident Friends are sincere in openness and deep consideration, but I know this will be subject to a discernment process, just as everything else has been.  It sounds to me, like UUPA may need to go back a few steps, and revisit some loving (but firm) process????

Namaste':   Tara 
(in Lancaster PA)

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----- Original Message ----
From: Anita Wagner <imapolygirl@yahoo.com>
To: uupoly-l@uupa.org
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2007 11:16:20 PM
Subject: [UUPoly-L] UUPA and independent affiliate status

Hi friends -

  I've been getting into the blogosphere lately, and I thought I'd pass along one where things are being written about us.  There is a fellow who has a blog called "UU Enforcer" at 
  http://uuenforcer.blogspot.com/ who posted both yesterday and today on the independent affiliate status issue and who claims that it is all primarily about the UUA finding a way to get rid of us specifically.  I gather that this is also a commentary on what is brewing for GA.  

  His posts are entitled "The fan is being hit" and "More on the fan" and are pretty snide and not particularly friendly to either us or UUA.  Now, I realize that any smartass can have a blog, and that this is one anonymous person's take on things, but blogs are news sources these days, too.  

  If what enforcer claims is true, what are we going to do about it?  

  What are we able to do about it?  

  Is it possible that UUism has met its match in terms of social justice issues that it just doesn't have the stomach for?  

  Are stronger efforts for understanding and acceptance now called for?  

  If enforcer is right, are we just going to roll over and let the most liberal, ostensibly egalitarian religious organization in the country kick us to the curb?  

  It makes me kind of sick - not to mention seriously disappointed - to think that this is the reality of the situation.  

  Anita

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