[UUPoly-L] Can Unitarian Universalism Change

[Ken Haslam <haslamk@gmail.com>]

UU World latest issue  Spring 2010 has an article by Raul Rasor about how
Unitarianism seems stuck in the present (or even the past) while claiming to
seek diversity.    Although the piece is about race, it might also seem to
address Polyamory.    As those on this list well know,  some congregations
as well as the UUA are still having difficulties accepting Polyamory as a
valid relationship choice.

A while back the treasurer of UUPA noted that (based on records of those who
have joined UUPA) some 15 % of UU congregations have Poly people in them.
 This is not insignificant.

If the UUA if truly committed to diversity, religious freedom, openness to
new ideas and being a religion that should live in the present and not the
past then it is time for establishing a dialogue between UUPA and UUA.

Several years ago members of the UUPA met with the UU Clergy in, I think,
Boston or Long Beach at GA, and agreed to establish a dialogue of continuing
talks about how Polyamory might be accepted and understood by the UUA.

It never happened.    Since the UUA is being challenged to change and keep
up with modern culture, is it time to try to establish a conversation again.

I hope some of you will read this article and put it into the context of how
UUA is dealing with Polyamorous families.   Note I say UUA as I am well
aware that some individual congregations are VERY understanding of
Polyamory.

How do we establish this dialogue?

Ken Haslam

-- 
Love withers under constraint; its very essence is liberty. It is compatible
neither with obedience, jealousy nor fear. It is there most pure, perfect,
and unlimited when
its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve.

     Percy Bysshe Shelley

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