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

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Seriously cool.

[carandol.livejournal.com]

Nice. I do like the Unitarians. I'm not religious these days, but was brought up in the church. When I was going to Sunday school in the 1960s, we had a woman minister (unheard of!) also had a doctorate in Ecology (unheard of!). When one of the congregation became old and ill, and needed looking after at home, she married him so that she could go and live with him without it being a scandal.

Thankfully, things are more open these days. I think the main thing I learned from the Unitarians is tolerance.