Re: [UUPoly-L] GA Day 3

["Bear" <beardrummer@gmail.com>]

Big Love has caused a great deal of exposure... and shows it in a way that 
allows people to see it as a family, warts and all, instead of a distant 
unknowable concept...  Add that to our general way of looking at things, and 
I think that it is actually a good little soap opera...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Moonstorm Erosong" <mnstrm@erosong.net>
To: <uupoly-l@uupa.org>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 10:25 PM
Subject: [UUPoly-L] GA Day 3


> Another long and enjoyable day at the booth in the exhibit hall.  Lot's 
> more pleasant interactions with UUs, some enthusiastic, some troubled, but 
> all respectful.
>
> In the afternoon I attended an "Open Space" session which was sort of a 
> brainstorming session on how the UUA and its congregations can accomodate 
> all varieties of families.  There were only three of us in the session, 
> one a Director of Religious Education from a church near Portland.  The 
> other was a lady from a church in Port Townsend, Washington, who was the 
> monther of a psychiatrically troubled child.  Both of the ladies 
> immediately identified my buttons as polyamory buttons, and they listened 
> quite earnestly and sympathetically to my concerns about uneven and 
> unpredictable treatment of poly families in UU churches.  In the end we 
> generated a statement for the UUA Board of Trustees recommending 
> improvements in resources and educational materials regarding the needs of 
> various kinds of unconventional families, including polyamorous ones.
>
> In the evening I had dinner with my sister Val, Rene (UUPA member from Las 
> Vegas), and Rene's husband and wife, and Joani from Oakland CA.
>
> I continue to be impressed this year with how many people I'm meeting that 
> already know about polyamory and seem sincerely concerned about providing 
> positive experiences for poly people and poly families within UU 
> congregations.
>
> Blessings,
>
> 'Storm
> Moonstorm Erosong
> mnstrm@erosong.net
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