CUEW Triad

Currently, we have CFFN and some covens out there affiliated with CUEW. Now we are starting to get people who wish to affiliate their covens with CUEW. The Bylaws are a bit unclear on how to deal with those types of things. So, let's talk about our thoughts regarding letting people affiliate with CUEW, what kind of structure we want to set up for it, and how we can ensure our usefulness to them, and their usefulness to us :-)

Basically, the bylaws say that groups may affiliate with us if they follow the Ethics of Members and Member Organizations. However, there is no specific mechanism for accepting groups or individuals into UEW. If they wish to TEACH UEW, they must go through approved training, which I would offer includes doing all of the lessons of first and second circle and proving they have been teachers in the past and know their stuff.

In order to be clergy, they would have to be elected by a UEW group, be a lay minister who has had to be in the second circle, be provisional clergy which would take 3 ordained persons and equivalent training (but I think we only currently have one ordained person (hi Kat)), or ordained, which would mean going through the whole first through third circle process, etc. There is no "grandfathered" clergy beyond those who were grandfathered in 2001, and no provision for ordination without having completed all 3 circles of UEW.

Thoughts? I'm all for growth in UEW, however, I also want to be careful. We have enough lunatics in the "community at large" that this is truly a concern. I would like to modify the bylaws for explicit approval processes and removal processes for various groups if it turns out that they are flakes, or otherwise not following the ethical requirements.