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I'm "anon" who hadn't read all these letters before writing mine. I'm not at all surprised to see other people fingering the UU OWL program. I will say, further, that the main reason we left the UU church is that our son did NOT feel safe there - the teachers he had included mostly scattered, downright incompetent people, and one bona fide nutcase who actually frightened him. I found the "committees" to be so averse to any sort of confrontation or even vetting of RE teachers that it boggled the mind. When they hired a richly-tattood 20-something as the "Youth Advisor" as a way to "help him out" of a troubled situation, and after I myself saw him telling one of the young female teens "not to tell anyone what they'd talked about," we pulled outta Dodge and didn't look back.
"Inclusivity" is one thing, and certainly a laudable goal. But the inability to "exclude" inappropriate people and their behaviors when in the business of providing a "safe, beloved community," is downright negligence, pure and simple.
