Editing Polyamory (section)

==Acceptance by religions==
{{See also|Fornication|Polygamy#Religious attitudes to polygamy|Polyandry#Religious attitudes}}

[[File:Oneida Commune.png|thumb|left|Land of Oneida Community between 1865 and 1875]]
The [[Oneida Community]] in the 1800s in New York (a Christian religious commune) believed strongly in a system of [[free love]] known as a [[complex marriage]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Foster |first=Lawrence |editor1-last=Pitzer |editor1-first=Donald E. |date=January 2010 |chapter=Free Love and Community: John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Perfectionists |title=America's Communal Utopias |url=https://uncpress.org/book/9780807846094/americas-communal-utopias/ |location=Chapel Hill, NC |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |pages=253–278 |isbn=978-0807846094 |access-date=December 25, 2020 |archive-date=January 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130022503/https://uncpress.org/book/9780807846094/americas-communal-utopias/ |url-status=live }}</ref> where any member was free to have sex with any other who consented.<ref>{{cite book |last=Stoehr |first=Taylor |date=1979 |title=Free Love in America: A Documentary History |location=New York |publisher=AMS Press, Inc |isbn=9780404160340}}</ref> In 1993, the archives of the community were made available to scholars for the first time. Contained within the archives was the journal of Tirzah Miller,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Herrick |first1=Tirzah Miller |last2=Fogarty |first2=Robert S. |editor-last=Fogarty |editor-first=Robert S.|title=Desire and Duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller's Intimate Memoir |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=Bloomington Indianapolis |year=2000 |isbn=9780253213624 |oclc=247762494}}</ref> Noyes' niece, who wrote extensively about her romantic and sexual relations with other members of Oneida.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Chmielewski|first=Wendy E.|title=Reviewed work: Desire and Duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller's Intimate Memoir, Robert S. Fogarty |date=2001|journal=Utopian Studies|volume=12|issue=1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mutualcriticism0000onei/page/176 176–178]|jstor=20718260|isbn=9780815621690|oclc=5542766034|url=https://archive.org/details/mutualcriticism0000onei}}</ref>

Some Christians are polyamorous, but mainstream Christianity [[Porneia|does not accept polyamory]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Multiple intimate relationships: a summary of liberated Christians' views|url=http://www.libchrist.com/bible/polygamy.html|website=Liberated Christians|access-date=August 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015090448/http://www.libchrist.com/bible/polygamy.html|archive-date=October 15, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2017, the [[Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood]], an evangelical Christian organization, released a manifesto on human sexuality known as the "[[Nashville Statement]]". The statement was signed by 150 evangelical leaders and included 14 points of belief.<ref>{{cite web |last=Meyer |first=Holly |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/29/evangelical-manifesto-human-sexuality/614201001/ |title=More than 150 evangelical religious leaders sign 'Christian manifesto' on human sexuality |date=August 29, 2017 |work=[[USA Today]] |access-date=August 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830024517/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/29/evangelical-manifesto-human-sexuality/614201001/ |archive-date=August 30, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> Among other things, it states, "We deny that God has designed marriage to be a homosexual, polygamous, or polyamorous relationship."<ref>{{cite web |last=Meyer |first=Holly |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/30/what-nashville-statement-and-why-people-talking-it/619009001/ |title=What is the Nashville Statement and why are people talking about it? |publisher=[[USA Today]] |date=August 30, 2017 |access-date=August 31, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831214949/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/30/what-nashville-statement-and-why-people-talking-it/619009001/ |archive-date=August 31, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Some Jews are polyamorous, but mainstream Judaism does not accept polyamory. However, in 2000, Rabbi Jacob Levin came out as polyamorous to his synagogue's board in California without losing his job as rabbi.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Goldstein|first=Sarah|url=http://heebmagazine.com/an-unlikely-solution-to-the-vanishing-american-jew/58123|title=A Modest Proposal for the "Vanishing American Jew"|website=Heeb Magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819003149/http://heebmagazine.com/an-unlikely-solution-to-the-vanishing-american-jew/58123|archive-date=August 19, 2020|url-status=live|date=February 2007|quote=Rabbi Jacob Levin, 62, is an exception. When he came out to his synagogue's board seven years ago, his disclosure was met with a mix of confusion and dismay.}}</ref> As well, in his book ''A Guide to Jewish Practice: Volume 1 – Everyday Living'' (2011), Rabbi David Teutsch wrote, "It is not obvious that monogamy is automatically a morally higher form of relationship than polygamy," and that if practiced with honesty, flexibility, egalitarian rules, and trust, practitioners may "live enriched lives as a result".<ref>{{cite book|last=Teutsch|first=David|title=A Guide to Jewish Practice: Volume 1 – Everyday Living|date=2011|publisher=RRC Press|isbn=978-0938945185|pages=217–227}}</ref> In 2013, [[Sharon Kleinbaum]], the senior rabbi at [[Congregation Beit Simchat Torah]] in New York, said that polyamory is a choice that does not preclude a Jewishly observant and socially conscious life.<ref name="haaretz.com">{{cite news |title=Polyamorous Jews seek acceptance |agency=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |date=October 12, 2013 |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.551971 |access-date=November 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319053821/http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.551971 |archive-date=March 19, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> Some polyamorous Jews point to biblical patriarchs having multiple wives and concubines as evidence that polyamorous relationships can be sacred in Judaism.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lavin |first=Talia |url=http://www.jta.org/2013/10/10/news-opinion/united-states/ahava-raba-polyamorous-jews-engage-with-multiple-loves-and-their-jewish-traditions |title=Married and dating: Polyamorous Jews share love, seek acceptance |website=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |date=March 10, 2013 |access-date=June 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012154959/http://www.jta.org/2013/10/10/news-opinion/united-states/ahava-raba-polyamorous-jews-engage-with-multiple-loves-and-their-jewish-traditions |archive-date=October 12, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> An email list is dedicated to polyamorous Jews; it is called ''AhavaRaba'', which roughly translates to "big love" in Hebrew,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jta.org/2013/10/10/news-opinion/united-states/ahava-raba-polyamorous-jews-engage-with-multiple-loves-and-their-jewish-traditions#ixzz2hcUsvBTx|title=Married and dating: Polyamorous Jews share love, seek acceptance|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=October 10, 2013|access-date=October 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012154959/http://www.jta.org/2013/10/10/news-opinion/united-states/ahava-raba-polyamorous-jews-engage-with-multiple-loves-and-their-jewish-traditions#ixzz2hcUsvBTx|archive-date=October 12, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> and which echoes God's "great" or "abounding" love mentioned in the [[Ahava rabbah]] prayer.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Hoffman|editor1-first=Lawrence|title=My People's Prayer Book: The Sh'ma and its blessings|url=https://archive.org/details/mypeoplesprayerb02hoff|url-access=registration|date=1997|publisher=Jewish Lights Publishing|isbn=9781879045798|page=[https://archive.org/details/mypeoplesprayerb02hoff/page/69 69]}}</ref>

[[LaVeyan Satanism]] is critical of Abrahamic sexual mores, considering them narrow, restrictive, and hypocritical. Satanists are pluralists, accepting polyamorists, bisexuals, lesbians, gays, [[BDSM]], transgender people, and [[asexuality|asexuals]]. Sex is viewed as an indulgence, but one that should only be freely entered into with consent. [[LaVeyan Satanism#The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth|The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth]] only give two instructions regarding sex: "Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal" and "Do not harm little children", though the latter is much broader and encompasses physical and other abuse. This has been a consistent part of CoS policy since its inception in 1966. Magister Peter H. Gillmore wrote in an essay supporting [[same-sex marriage]] that some people try to suggest that their attitude on sexuality is "anything goes" even though they have a principle of "responsibility to the responsible".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchofsatan.com/founding-family-morality/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131027075819/http://www.churchofsatan.com/Pages/FoundingFamily.html|url-status=dead|title=Founding Family: "Morality" versus Same-Sex Marriage|archive-date=October 27, 2013|website=Church of Satan|access-date=December 24, 2020}}</ref>

[[Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness]], founded in 2001, has engaged in ongoing education and advocacy for greater understanding and acceptance of polyamory within the [[Unitarian Universalist Association]].<ref name="auto1">{{cite web |url=http://uupa.org |title=UUPA website |access-date=December 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205181452/http://uupa.org/ |archive-date=December 5, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> At the 2014 [[General Assembly (Unitarian Universalist Association)|General Assembly]], two UUPA members moved to include the category of "family and relationship structures" in the UUA's nondiscrimination rule, along with other amendments; the GA delegates ratified the package of proposed amendments.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/bylaws/ruleii/section-c-23-non-discrimination |title=Unitarian Universalist Association: Rule II, Section C-2.3.: Non-discrimination |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518103753/http://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/bylaws/ruleii/section-c-23-non-discrimination |archive-date=May 18, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>