soapbox
remember back in the day
when 4/10ths of my entries were politically charged
and colleen and peter left a lot of
bush-y comments?
then i mellowed out.
and stopped fighting so much.
(still caring, no energy, no election)
i just read an article in The New York Times Magazine about the core of the crusade against gay marriage.
Revealing that the heart of the battle for its soldiers is not political, not about states' rights, constitutionality, etc., etc. These folks won't even settle for civil unions.
fact is -
they HATE homosexuality,
those of the boorish logic that it is a disease,
like all gays are ticks lurking in the grass waiting to bite
their own PRECIOUS CHILDREN.
these people are ugly. reading the article, i could smell the rotting of some dying section of the heart.
hate is hate is hate.
What makes it worse+wrenching is that I was raised as a good little Catholic girl.
Despite the fact that I've said "buhbye" (and hello and buhbye and hello and buhbye and hello) to my beliefs in the whole confounded Church,
my image of Jesus is of the ancient Greenpeace crunchy prophet with a smiling face
as smooth as Mary's milk.
To see his skin turned lumpy and sour by the layering of warpaints makes my stomach cry.
my Jesus was not a bully.
he did not throw rocks
but instead caught them
before they smashed the heads
of the weak.
this rant is not new
and neither is the problem.
centuries of hurt have sprung from tragically misguided efforts
to weed out perversions in the name of the Lord.
the only perversion is the absence of love
and hate, the mortal sin.
<3
when 4/10ths of my entries were politically charged
and colleen and peter left a lot of
bush-y comments?
then i mellowed out.
and stopped fighting so much.
(still caring, no energy, no election)
i just read an article in The New York Times Magazine about the core of the crusade against gay marriage.
Revealing that the heart of the battle for its soldiers is not political, not about states' rights, constitutionality, etc., etc. These folks won't even settle for civil unions.
fact is -
they HATE homosexuality,
those of the boorish logic that it is a disease,
like all gays are ticks lurking in the grass waiting to bite
their own PRECIOUS CHILDREN.
these people are ugly. reading the article, i could smell the rotting of some dying section of the heart.
hate is hate is hate.
What makes it worse+wrenching is that I was raised as a good little Catholic girl.
Despite the fact that I've said "buhbye" (and hello and buhbye and hello and buhbye and hello) to my beliefs in the whole confounded Church,
my image of Jesus is of the ancient Greenpeace crunchy prophet with a smiling face
as smooth as Mary's milk.
To see his skin turned lumpy and sour by the layering of warpaints makes my stomach cry.
my Jesus was not a bully.
he did not throw rocks
but instead caught them
before they smashed the heads
of the weak.
this rant is not new
and neither is the problem.
centuries of hurt have sprung from tragically misguided efforts
to weed out perversions in the name of the Lord.
the only perversion is the absence of love
and hate, the mortal sin.
<3