Now I am back from General Assembly, the annual meeting of
the Unitarian Universalist Association, this church to which I have belonged
for something like forty-two years—thirty of which I have been trying to be
open and honest about my polyamory, because it seemed so clear to me that they
should accept my polyamory as a valid path.
I was going to say “life-choice;” but some years ago I came to doubt it
was really a “choice.” I went through a
period where I tried to be happy with monogamy.
But I wasn’t happy.
So I accepted that my happiness required me to accept my own
polyamorous nature. And I decided to be
honest about my polyamory with my church.
Unitarians, if you don’t know, are notoriously liberal. It really quite surprised me that I wasn’t
accepted years…decades ago. But everyone
has their insecurities.
But this year, at General Assembly, a gender non-binary UU minister,
standing before the entire assembly of perhaps three thousand people, welcomed
a large variety of ethnicities and genders and ages and viewpoints to the
Assembly—and they included the Kink community—and the polyamorous.
I had already joined the “Parade of Banners” on opening day with the
banner of the UUs for Polyamory Awareness, and sat at our UUPA booth in the
exhibit hall. But anxiously, waiting for
someone to object. They didn’t. Quite a few people mentioned how happy they
were to see us there.
So – Onwards! At least one major
organization (and a religious one!) seems supportive!
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