Re: [UUPoly-L] FW: Jenny Block / Nightline

[Timothy McKee <mknd17@hotmail.com>]

Ed:

I live with my sister and brother in law so I have had to adjust some of what I stand for to be comprehensible to their world view. I usually attend the Baptist Sunday School the days I go to the UU Church. (I don't drive right now and am dependent on them for a ride, so I accomodate them in their faith a little bit.)

 

One of the things I did mention to Daniel today was the attack on the nuclear family by the late David Berg, who headed up the radical Jesus Freaks Children of God organization that I  was involved with in my early adult years.  They did not do their polyamory very well, with it spilling over into sex with minors. Ostensible their worst years were between about 1975 and 1986 when they were primarily known as a sex cult. I have admitted in the past on this forum that some of my views about polyamory arose out of my association with the Children of God before things got too hairy. Fortunately I left in 1973 with a woman who became my wife shortly thereafter. I have sent a copy of ONE WIFE, by David Berg as the beginning of the foray away from monogamy and into group marriage/polyamory to the polyamory collection at Indiana University.

 

A few days ago I purchased a copy of  THE SISTERS ANTIPODES, which was a story of two men who swapped wives and in both instances they got two young daughters.  The story is written by one of the daughters and I think I will probably find it somewhat of a cautionary tale about quads.

 

I probably have more conservative views than many about polyamory.  My hope for Jenny Block is that things do not implode for her and that she does not get burned out with all the advocacy work she does for the polyamory community.

 

Tim
 
> From: ejjabla@comcast.net
> To: uupoly-l@uupa.org
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:09:51 -0700
> Subject: Re: [UUPoly-L] FW: Jenny Block / Nightline
> 
> I'm curious, how did the discussion come out?
> 
> I'm an ex Baptist (1st 20 yrs of life as an American Baptist, 2nd 20 as a 
> Southern Baptist, last 37 as a UU). As a Baptist reading the Baptist's 
> favorite book noted that having multiple wives were allowed in the Old 
> Testament. And nowhere was it said it was it was sinful. Just seemed to 
> disappear by the time of the New Testament (perhaps having more than one 
> wife just got to be too expensive).
> 
> Ed Blanchette <ejjabla@comcast.net>
> Citrus Hts. (Sacramento County)
> California USA
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Timothy McKee" <mknd17@hotmail.com>
> To: <uupoly-l@uupa.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 9:20 AM
> Subject: [UUPoly-L] FW: Jenny Block / Nightline
> 
> > My brother in law and I discussed this today. He is a conservative 
> > Baptist. I am a middle of the road UU.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > <http//:www.star-telegram.com/189/story/1620437.html>
> 
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