Re: [UUPoly-L] Report from PNWD AGM

[JasmineGld@aol.com]

> I was shocked
> at the argument that  came back, something to the extent of, "there were a
> lot of people in  the 60s who tried sexual experiments, ruined their lives,
> etc. therefore  I don't want our people to be hearing about this through 
us."

We're going to have to deal with this UU history. It will be unpleasant,  
ugly, and difficult. But we're going to have to deal with it before we can make  
significant progress. 
 
The natural response is try to forget it ever happened and never go there  
again -- don't rock the boat. But the presence of poly UUs demanding visibility  
in our congregations is rocking that boat and reminding people of those old  
failures and scandals and wounds. It would help a lot of people who were UUs  
during that time and developed successful poly relationships during that time  
would speak up about them. In their absence, we polys today appear, to UUs 
who  lived through that time, like naive newcomers who simply don't realize what 
 disasters await us. So our visibility evokes fear that UUism will again be  
severely disrupted by a second wave of scandals and failures. 
 
Jasmine 
 
 
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