How to come out.

[rivka]

Our church just hired a new Director of Religious Education. Here's an excerpt from her introductory column in the monthly newsletter, with emphasis added by me:

[...] And change is what we have before us. For me: a new apartment, a new job, a new routine, and a new ocean to visit when time allows. For all of us: new adventures, new forms to fill out, new committee responsibilities, new ideas to imagine, and new friends to enrich our lives. It might be too much if it weren't for all the familiar comforts that help us meet new challenges. For me, that's my family: my two partners, Lyn and Uri, and our cats, Lucy and Splat. And, of course, Unitarian Universalism, a faith that welcomes us all into a thoughtful reverence for this sacred world while nurturing within us the fierce desire for building justice.

I will be working with the Children's Religious Education Committee, building on the work of previous years, to continue to create a safe, welcoming religious home for children and youth. [...]

I've already met her, and I thought she was really cool. And I've heard fabulous things about her from the RE Committee. But this? I did not expect. Whoa.

Comments

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Yes, we've been e-mailing back and forth about the curricula for my RE class, and I think it'll be important to add some kind of friendly acknowledgement to my next note.

I'm trying to decide between "So, I see that you're polyamorous..." and a simple "We'd like to have you and your partners over for dinner."

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

I'd go with option B. "So, I see that you're polyamorous..." is the kind of thing that makes me, at least, expect to hear a load of stupid questions. Have dinner with her before you ask those.

[timill]

"My partners and I would like to invite you and your partners..."

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

rivka's other partner might have a ways to travel, unfortunately. Though I'm sure it would be lovely. :-)

-J

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

that really is way cool.

i'd go with option B. you can then bring up any other partners of yours during dinner. though i used option A to make an offer of friendship to the *poing*, *snicker*, but dinner wasn't an option, being as we live so far apart.

also, a cat named "splat"! these people must rock. :)